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Jan Feliks Senbergs b. 1939

Also known as John Senbergs, Jan Senbergs, Jānis Šēnbergs

Artist (Painter),
Artist (Printmaker),
Artist (Draughtsman)

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: Refugees, Industrial Landscapes, humanism

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Baillieu Library Special Collections, University of Melbourne, Vic.

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The Special Collections, Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne, comprise some 200,000 rare or historic books, serials and pamphlets and literary archives.

The McArthur Bequest (1903) was the first substantial donation to the University Library, which has been followed by, among others, the Sir Russell Grimwade, Ian McLaren and Clern Christesen collections acquired in the 1970s.

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http://www.lib.unimelb.edu.au/collections/special/
Government House, Sydney, NSW

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The First Bush Block. Governor Phillip Tower, Government House

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Date modified	Sept. 14, 2022, 3:57 p.m.	Sept. 14, 2022, 3:50 p.m.
Residences	1939 - Riga, Latvia c.1941 - c.1949 Germany (Senbergs’ family were forced to relocate to Germany during World War II) 1950 - Melbourne, VIC
Tags	Refugees Industrial Landscapes humanism	Printmaking Printmaker Displaced Persons

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Jan Feliks Senbergs b. 1939

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Government House, Sydney, NSW

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