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Jean Campbell, 1950
Wolfgang Sievers
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Gift of an anonymous donor 2010
Dean Dixon, 1962
Wolfgang Sievers
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Gift of an anonymous donor 2010
Wolfgang Franz Otto Blass
Biography
Wolfgang Franz Otto Blass was born in East Germany in 1934 and at 15 began an apprenticeship in wine making and viticulture in his grandfather’s vineyard.
1 portrait in the collection
Wolf Blass, Wolf Blass Wines, n.d.
Joe Greenberg
Portrait, watercolour, crayon, coloured pencil, fibre-tipped pen and gouache on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2001
Norma Redpath
Biography
Norma Redpath OBE (1928-2013), sculptor, studied at Swinburne and RMIT and undertook broad travel studies in Europe in the 1950s.
2 portraits in the collection
Photography in focus
Virtual: Teacher Professional Learning
Event, Thursday 30 January
Join photo-historian Helen Ennis and Gallery educators as we launch our professional learning programs for 2025 with a free online session that explores ways to engage students with photography.
Photography in focus
Teacher Professional Learning
Event, Tuesday 28 January
Join photo-historian Helen Ennis and Gallery educators as we launch our professional learning programs for 2025 with a free session that explores ways to engage students with photography.
Hélène Kirsova
Biography
Hélène Kirsova (1910–1962), dancer and founder of Kirsova Ballet, the first professional ballet company in Australia.
4 portraits in the collection
Myles Nelson
Finalist interviews
It was definitely a candid encounter as was the expression on the face. It was constructed insofar as the image was deliberately taken from a distance so as to minimize intrusion and to magnify the effect of the image.
Fugue in Yellow
Magazine article by Roger Benjamin, 2015
Roger Benjamin explores the intriguing union of Lina Bryans and Alex Jelinek.
References
General content
About the exhibition curator Claire Roberts, and writers Eugene Wang and Zhang Letian.