Bauhaus on the Swan: Elise Blumann, an emigre artist in Western Australia, 1938-1948

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Bauhaus on the Swan: Elise Blumann, an emigre artist in Western Australia, 1938-1948
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Sally Quin
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:160
Dimensions(mm): Height 284,Width 234
Category/GenreArt styles not defined by date
ISBN/Barcode 9781742585987
ClassificationsDewey:759.994
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher UWA Publishing
Imprint UWAP
Publication Date 1 July 2015
Publication Country Australia

Description

German artist Elise Blumann (1897-1990) arrived in Western Australia in 1938, having fled Nazi Germany in 1934. With her husband and two sons she set up home on the banks of the Swan River, and began to paint. Over the next ten years she produced a series of portraits set against the river and the Indian Ocean, and pursued an analysis of plant forms - the zamia palm, xanthorrhoea, banksia and the majestic melaleuca - to brilliant effect. In this study Sally Quin traces Blumann's formative student years in Berlin and her first decade in Australia, where the artist reinvented her working method in response to the intense light and colour of the local landscape. The challenges presented by this new physical environment resulted in bold and evocative interpretations of the land.