Gert Hugo Emmanuel Sellheim b. 1901

  • Artist (Graphic Designer),
  • Designer (Industrial / Product Designer)
Sellheim was a graphic artist and industrial designer. He won the Sulman Prize in 1939 and was one of the first poster artists to work in a semi abstract style in Melbourne. He also undertook work as a muralist for the Victorian Tourist Bureau.
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Citations

  • 'NSW Death Records : 11358/1970’.

  • Hetherington, Michelle (1999), 'Follow the Sun: Australian Travel Posters 1930s-1950s’, Canberra, ACT : National Library of Australia, (good biography on wall of exhibition, presumably now in NLA).

  • Powerhouse Museum, ''Australia For Sun and Surf’ poster’, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, NSW.

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  • Spearritt, Peter (2002), 'Sellheim, Gert Hugo Emmanuel (1901 – 1970)’, Melbourne, Vic : in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 16, [Ritchie, J. (ed.)], Melbourne University Press.

  • Hetherington, Michelle (1999), 'Follow the Sun: Australian Travel Posters 1930s-1950s’, Canberra, ACT : National Library of Australia, (good biography on wall of exhibition, presumably now in NLA).

  • Black, Roman (1963), 'Old and New Aboriginal Art’, A&R.

  • Butler, R. (1993), 'Poster Art in Australia’, Canberra, ACT.

  • McCulloch, Alan (1984), 'Encyclopedia of Australian Art’, Melbourne, Vic : Hutchinson of Australia (2nd edition).

  • Spearritt, Peter (1991), 'Trading Places’, Melbourne, Vic.

  • Information sourced from Kerr, Joan.

  • Nanette Carter. “Murals and Milk Bars.” Savage Luxury, Modernist Design, Melbourne 1930-1939, 2007, pp.79-86.

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  • Black and white artists

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