Jan Feliks Senbergs b. 1939

Also known as John Senbergs, Jan Senbergs
  • Artist (Painter),
  • Artist (Printmaker)
Jan Senbergs is one of that remarkable generation of European refugee immigrants whose sensibility so influenced Australian culture. His work has been featured in numerous group and solo exhibitions, including a major survey exhibition Imagined Sites - Imagined Realities at Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne in 1994 and a survey of his career at the National Gallery of Victoria in 2016.
Tags: Printmaking, Printmaker, Displaced Persons, Latvia
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Painter. His painting (title unknown) inspired by Tommy McRae (Yakaduna) drawings was included in Paul Fox’s exhibition, Sweet Damper and Gossip , at Monash University Gallery in 1994, although the source is less obvious in Senberg’s work than in many others. Senbergs quoted a view of First Government House by the Port Jackson Painter in a commissioned work hung in Governor Phillip Tower near the original site. Even so, he is really not a 'quotation artist’, tending to digest his sources beyond recognition while avoiding making any commentary on them.

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Date written:
1999
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2011

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Other occupations
  • Art Teacher (ANZSIC code: 810) 1967 - RMIT, Melbourne, Victoria
Trainings
  • technical school, 1952 - c.1955 Richmond Technical School, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
  • Apprentice Silk Screen Printing, c.1956 - 1960
  • Screen Printing, c.1956 - c.1960 Melbourne School of Printing and Graphic Arts, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
  • technical school, - c.1954 Richmond Technical School, Melbourne, VIC, Australia