Yosl Bergner 'Crooked Lamp' romantic

Yosl Bergner 'Crooked Lamp' romanticYosl Bergner is one of Australias most important artists. Born in Austria and raised in Poland, he and his family immigrated to Australia in 1937 to escape anti semitism. In Melbourne, Bergner attended the National Art School and befriended the Heide circle, who included Sidney Nolan, Albert Tucker and John Perceval. It was alongside Noel Coulihan and Vic OConnor however, that Bergner made his indeminable mark. Self described as a social humanist,

Auguste Blackman captures a resting bird

Framed Dimensions: 49 x 39 x 4 cm

Olsen is among Australia’s most recognised and iconic artists

especially during hardship

dated and editioned

Alun Leach Jones

Signed: Signed lower right AB

give his work a naïve quality that sometimes seems simplistic

Inspired by the landscape

window and locked box in delicate hues

This exquisite original etching

this work is a cacophony of stimuli