Home of Sir Hans Heysen noted Australian painter. The Cedars at Hahndorf in the Adelaide Hills. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Home of Sir Hans Heysen noted Australian painter. The Cedars at Hahndorf in the Adelaide Hills. / denisbin
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| 説明 | Hans Heysen and Nora Heysen and the Cedars.Sir Hans Heysen was born in Hamburg in Germany and migrated to SA in 1883 when he was seven years old. At age 14 he enrolled in James Ashton’s Norwood Art School. From the age of 16(1893) his works were being exhibited in galleries in Adelaide. He loved the Australian landscape and one of his favourite haunts for painting was the Onkaparinga Valley near the village of Grunthal. In the mid 1890s Robert Barr Smith paid the fees for Heysen to attend the school of design at the Art Gallery of Adelaide. Other patrons paid for his studies of art in Europe on condition that they could sell the works of art he produced whilst there! He returned to Adelaide in 1903, married in 1904 and continued to exhibit in Adelaide and Melbourne. In 1908 he rented a cottage near Grunthal as he loved the big gums of what became Heysen Country so much. As his fame and commissions grew he was able to buy in 1912 a nearby property, the Cedars, with 36 acres of big gum country. He soon added a studio (1912) and enlarged the house in 1912 and again in 1924 to accommodate his eight children and one adopted child. He transformed the original Victorian villa style house into an Arts and Crafts Federation bungalow style house. He travelled to the Flinders Ranges for the first time in 1926 and by then he was a well established and prominent artist with many prizes and awards to his name. His artist recognition continued and he was knighted in 1959. Sir Hans Heysen died in the Mt Barker Hospital in 1968 and was buried in Hahndorf. Only one of his children showed artistic talent and that was daughter Nora. A number of his paintings depict the country between Verdun, Balhannah and Hahndorf including Summer 1908; Red Gold 1913; The Road 1918; At The Panels 1920; The Toilers 1920 ; Light and Shade 1923; and Twp white Gums near Ambleside 1944 . Nora Heysen was born in 1911 just before the Heysens moved into the Cedars. She grew up here and attended school at the Convent of Mercy Mt Barker. At 15 years of age she started art training at the North Adelaide School of Fine Arts which was eventually subsumed into the University of South Australia. Next she studied at the Royal SA Society of the Arts and she had her first exhibition with them in 1928 at 17 years of age. From 1930 she had her own studio at the Cedars and she had an exhibition in Sydney in 1930. By 1932 she had works in the NSW, QLD and SA art galleries. Unlike her father she specialised in still life and flowers which her father immediately stopped painting. He continued with his eucalypts and landscapes. In 1934 she sailed to Europe for further art study and did not return to Adelaide until 1937. She continued to exhibit, won more awards and moved to Sydney to live in 1939. She often revisited her family at the Cedars but never lived there again, except for some recuperation for part of 1946 after the War. Her life took a dramatic turn with the start of World War Two. She became the first female Australian War Artist from 1943 serving time mainly in Papua New Guinea. She completed 170 paintings for the War Office and 152 of them now reside in the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. Whilst in New Guinea she met a British medical officer Dr Robert Black. She began a relationship with him that resulted in his divorce and his remarriage to her ten years later in 1953. She travelled in Europe in 1947 and 1948 and returned to live in Sydney in 1949 where she stayed for the rest of her life in the house she purchased with Dr Black called The Chalet at Hunters Hill. She died there at The Chalet in 2003 although she had divorced Dr Black in 1972. She won many awards including the Archibald and the Melrose Prize for Portraiture. She specialised in portraits and still life. She was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in 1998. Hahndorf.The origins of Hahndorf can be indirectly traced back to George Fife Angas, one of the financiers of SA and the SA Company. Through his SA agent Mr Flaxman, Angas purchased seven Special Surveys totalling 28,000 acres in the Barossa Valley in 1839. But whilst still in England in 1838 George Fife Angas met Lutheran Pastor Kavel and then soon after he financed Pastor Kavel’s passage to SA along with and 250 German Lutherans immigrants. Angas wanted to have a supply of potential labourers and possible tenants for his land purchases in the SA colony. His actions encouraged other German Lutherans to migrate to SA. Another group of German Lutherans arrived in SA in 1838 aboard the ship the Zebra under the command of Captain Hahn. Captain Hahn searched for suitable land for the 200 or so people from the Zebra so that they could settle together as a religious community. He accidentally met William Dutton who had just paid for the Mt Barker Special Survey of 1839. Hahn asked for 100 acres, to be rent free in the first year, to help the Lutherans become established near Mt Barker. Around 150 acres were allotted to the Germans by Dutton, Finniss and MacFarlane from the Mt Barker Special Survey and 240 acres were purchased from the government. Soon more German Lutherans, including some from Klemzig and Pastor Kavel’s group joined the original group led by Captain Hahn. They formed a village in early 1839 along traditional German lines and called it Hahndorf after the Captain that had been so helpful to them. The story of Hahndorf had begun. The land was divided between the 54 founding Lutheran families and Hahndorf thus became the second (after Klemzig) and eventually oldest surviving German settlement in Australia. But it did not remain that way for long. In the 1840s some families moved away to other areas of German settlement, partly because of religious splits between Pastor Kavel and Pastor Fritzsche and by the 1850s English background families started moving into the village of Hahndorf as well. As most families had a frontage to the main street many of the original buildings from the 1840s and early 1850s remain today with their typical German architectural style. They include houses, the old mill (the first settlers grew wheat for the Adelaide market), two Lutheran churches, St. Pauls (1890) and St. Michaels (1858, the second church on the site - the first one opened in 1840), two of the early hotels, several early stores and the Hahndorf Academy. The Hahndorf Academy opened in 1857 as a school for the Lutherans where they were taught in German but learned English as well. The current large Academy building was built with its two storeys in 1871. In 1876 it also became a Lutheran seminary for a short time before reverting to a secular Academy which finally closed in 1912. |
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