The Bauhaus OGG Legacy at Geelong Exhibitors Grammar School
The recently completed book The Bauhaus Legacy at Geelong Grammar School by Felicity Renowden and Resi Schwarzbauer (July 2008) is a guide book that will assist present, past and future students of Geelong Grammar School and art lovers generally, to appreciate the legacy left by Hirschfeld Mack at Corio. The book explains and gives details of the artistic legacy, now part of the Corio Campus landscape, inspired, created or designed by Ludwig Hirschfeld Mack (18931965), Art Master at Geelong Grammar School from 1942-1957. Hirschfeld Mack was a member of the original Bauhaus in Weimar, Germany, before being deported to Australia as an enemy alien in 1940. After a lengthy period of internment at Hay, Orange and Tatura, where he made a number of woodcuts that illustrated life under detention, he was released in 1942 through the sponsorship of Sir James Darling, Headmaster, and took up the appointment of Painting Master at Geelong Grammar School. The book is available through the School Bookshop for $15. Shop online at www.ggs.vic.edu.au shop@ggs or tel: +61 3 5273 9329
Current Hirschfield
Mack Exhibition The exhibition Modern times: the untold story of modernism in Australia reveals the transformations in art and life across a period of five decades – 1917 to 1967. Developed by the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney and now being presented at Heide Museum of Modern Art until 12 July 2009, the exhibition surveys a tumultuous period in Australian history, marked by global wars, economic depression, a technological revolution, major social changes and the shaping of a modern cosmopolitan culture. The exhibition highlights stories of international contact with key modernist sources, such as the Bauhaus school in Germany, where the artist and teacher Ludwig Hirschfeld Mack ran the first colour classes in 1922–23. Deported to Australia as an enemy alien in 1940, Hirschfeld Mack subsequently taught Bauhaus principles and was influential both as an artist and teacher. A film reconstruction of his extraordinary Colour Light Play of 1923 is being shown for the first time in Australia. (Source; Modern Times Media Release) Heide Museum of Modern Art 7 Templestowe Road Bulleen Victoria Tel: +61 3 9850 1500 www.heide.com.au
Lucy McEachern (Ga’99) won a contemporary sculptor’s award in Melbourne last November with her Red-Tailed Black Cockatoo, limited edition of 12, Bronze, winning the Celia Dymond Design Prize and the Contempory Sculptors’ Association, Yarra Street Gallery Melbourne. Lucy has three pieces being exhibited at Art Melbourne 2009 at the Royal Exhibition Building, Carlton, 16 19 of April 2009. In 2006 the Australian War Memorial in Canberra commissioned Dean Colls (Fr ’85) and his partner Louise Skacej to produce a diorama depicting the battle of Kapyong, a significant moment in the Korean War.
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It was completed in 2007 and officially launched by the Prime Minister as part of the new Post-1945 Conflicts Gallery in 2008. The diorama has been extremely well received by both the veterans and the public. Colls and Skacej have been collaborating for over 10 years, their earlier works include “Voyage” which can be seen at 161 Collins Street, Melbourne.
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Request for Photographs Past staff member Max Guzelian who led the band and was a woodwind teacher for many years at GGS sadly lost all his photographs in a fire (not the recent ones). If anyone has photos of Max that he could borrow for scanning, please contact the Archives Office, Melissa Campbell: email: melissac@ggs.vic.edu.au or tel: 03 5273 9869 Glamorgan Magazines Required Melissa Campbell, Archivist at GGS, is seeking the donation of Glamorgan Magazines to the Archives. In particular, any copies prior to 1984 and also copies from 1993; 1994; 1997; 1999; 2000 and any after 2001 are sought. Please contact Melissa on email: melissac@ggs.vic.edu.au or tel: 03 5273 9869 if you are able to assist.
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1. The recently completed book The Bauhaus Legacy by Felicity Renowden and Resi Schwarzbauer. 2. Dean Colls and Louise Skacej have been collaborating for over 10 years; their earlier works include “Voyage” (pictured behind Dean and Louise) which can be seen at 161 Collins Street, Melbourne. 3. The award-winning Red-Tailed Black Cockatoo, Limited Edition of 12, Bronze by Lucy McEachern (Ga’99). 4. The diorama depicting the battle of Kapyong, a crucial moment in the Korean War, by Dean Colls (Fr ’85) and his partner Louise Skacej.
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