Yosl Bergner b. 13 October 1920

  • Artist (Painter)
Mid 20th century Viennese-born Melbourne and Israeli painter. Bergner was a contemporary of Boyd and Perceval and an active member of Melbourne's Contemporary Art Society together with his friends Noel Counihan and Vic O'Connor. Bergner's paintings were among the first to address the specific plight of Indigenous Australians and his later work took inspiration from the works of German writer Franz
Tags: social conscience, Communist, refugee
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exhibited at
Yosl Bergner: A Retrospective
Date
2000
Place
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Yosl Bergner
Date
1985
Place
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC
Description

With the assistance of the Visual; Arts Board of the Australia Council and the Gandel Charitable Trust

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
NGV annual report; UTAS catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
Yosl Bergner : a retrospective exhibition, Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 1985.
ISBN 072410111X

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Retrospective, Painting
exhibited at
Date
1939
Place
University of Melbourne, Vic.
Description
Type
Exhibition

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References [<ExternalResource: Mellick, Ross (2001), 'Yosl Bergner - A Retrospective: Melbourne, Kafka and disjunctions of the human heart', Art and Australia, 38/4, pp 530-533.>, <ExternalResource: Rubin, Carmela (2000), 'Yosl Bergner: A Retrospective', Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel, April-June, exhibition catalogue.>, <ExternalResource: David Langsam "YOSL BERGNER 1920-2017">] [<ExternalResource: Mellick, Ross (2001), 'Yosl Bergner - A Retrospective: Melbourne, Kafka and disjunctions of the human heart', Art and Australia, 38/4, pp 530-533.>, <ExternalResource: Rubin, Carmela (2000), 'Yosl Bergner: A Retrospective', Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel, April-June, exhibition catalogue.>]