Cover of Recent German Graphic Art exhibition catalogue
Star-Sun, 16 May 1955. The painting being handled is Rothaariges Mädchen by Otto Dix, bought by the Canterbury Public Library from this exhibition and transferred to the Robert McDougall Art Gallery in 1995.
The painting being removed is Self-portrait by Lois White, then in the collection of the Canterbury Society of Arts and acquired by the National Art Gallery in 1992, now in the collection of Te Papa (accession number 1992-0007-1).
Press, 17 May 1955
Press, 17 May 1955
This exhibition is now closed
This exhibition of German lithographs, etchings, woodcuts and monotypes was toured by the West German Government. Unusually the works were for sale and 31 orders were taken. The Robert McDougall Gallery itself bought seven and the Canterbury Public Library bought ten. This was 1955 and the New Zealand Government charged 55% import duty on each purchase.
At the opening, the West German Minister in New Zealand, Dr. Erich Boltze spoke of the need for Germany to renew itself politically and intellectually through the work of poets, thinkers and artists. This exhibition was proof, he said, of the intellectual hunger felt by many in West Germany following the disasters of Nazism, war and division.
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Date:
16 May – 29 May 1955 -
Exhibition number:
2
