Fred Lowen

  • Designer (Furniture Designer / Cabinetmaker)
Lowen is a furniture designer and manufacturer, also working occasionally as a caricaturist, one of the 'Dunera Boys' interned in Hay and Tatura during the Second World War.
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caricaturist, was one of the “ Dunera Boys “, Jewish refugees arriving in Australia from England at the beginning of WWII who were interned at Tatura internment camp for enemy aliens. The Jewish Museum of Australia in Melbourne has catalogued, registered and stores the Dunera/Internment Collection of approximately 2,000 items.

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Writers:
Kerr, Joan
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007

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Roles
  • Designer (Furniture Designer / Cabinetmaker)
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Arrivals
  • 1940
  • 1940
Related works
  • Dr Behr, an occupant of the Tatura internment camp, caricatured by fellow internee, Fred Lowen (creator of)
  • Dr Behr, an occupant of the Tatura internment camp, caricatured by fellow internee, Fred Lowen (creator of)
Related collections
  • Jewish Museum of Australia, Melbourne, Vic. (collected in)
  • Jewish Museum of Australia, Melbourne, Vic. (collected in)
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