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Herbst, Gerhard , b. 1911

Herbst, Gerard, b. 1911

Herbst was a designer for Prestige (Fabrics) Limited, an illustrator and later principal lecturer at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in industrial design, graphics. In ...

Hilder, Brett, b. 1911

The son of artist J.J. Hilder, Brett Hilder was a painter, author and distinguished sailor.

Hodgkinson, Roy Cecil, b. 1911

Mid 20th century Sydney-born and trained, Melbourne-based war artist, illustrator and cartoonist. During WWII Hodgkinson served as an official war artist in New Guinea, Ceylon, ...

Morrison, Alistair, b. 1911

Morrison was a typographer, graphic designer, industrial designer and author. He had a celebrated design career in London from 1936-1939, returning to Australia before the ...

Sumner, Alan, b. 1911

Sumner was a painter, printmaker and stained glass designer. He was well known for his silkscreen prints which exhibited first in Melbourne and sold in ...

Tyson, Geoffrey, b. 1911

Mid 20th century Launceston art teacher, painter and advertising artist. Known for sketches made while a Prisoner of War during WWII.

Bayliss, Clifford William, b. 1912

Bayliss trained in Melbourne, winning a Gallery Art School Scholarship in 1935. Later training in London, after the 1939-45 War, he became a production assistant ...

Bazeley, Noel, b. 1912

Beck, Richard, b. 1912

Beck practised as an industrial designer and graphic artist in the UK and Australia. He designed travel posters for the Orient Line, London Transport, stamps ...

Bell, Guilford, b. 1912

Bunning, Walter, b. 1912

Bunning is a modernist architect and co-founder of the Sydney MARS (Modern Architecture Research Society) and their first president. He was also active in the ...

Cooper, George Wilson, b. 1912

Wilson Cooper was a man of many parts but principally an accomplished watercolourist, a proficient cartoonist and animator, a capable sculptor and finally, a respected ...

Dargie, William, b. 1912

Drysdale, Russell, b. 1912

Russell Drysdale painted some of the iconic landscapes of the Australian outback, and in the 1940s his paintings and drawings enabled city people to see ...

Halvorsen, Carl, b. 1912

Halvorsen, son of a Norwegian boat-builder, designed and built motor yachts from shipyards in Neutral Bay, later Ryde, then Bobbin Head NSW. While the company's ...