ART FROM GERMAN WORLD WAR 2 INTERNEES OF PERSIA IN AUSTRALIA
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Internees from various walks of life found themselves in temporary quarters, but remained inspired to create artworks that recorded their experiences, and preserved history which is seen across the images below.

Drawing

Tehran Police Hospital. Colour pencil on paper, artist’s sketch book, by internee Eugen von Mensdorff [R36646], 15th September 1941. Private Collection. © P. Khosronejad.
Basra Military Camp, Iraq. Pencil on paper, artist’s sketch book, by internee Carl von Brandenstein [R36413], 5th October 1941. Wulff Collection. © Curator P. Khosronejad.
Basra Military Camp, Iraq. Pencil on paper, artist’s sketch book, by internee Eugen von Mensdorff [R36646], 13th October 1941. Private Collection. © P. Khosronejad.
Getting Food, Basra Military Camp, Iraq. Pencil on paper, artist’s sketch book, by internee Eugen von Mensdorff [R36646], 6th October 1941. Private Collection. © P. Khosronejad.
Fritz Bambach [R36428] in Camp Hospital, Loveday Internment Camp, South Australia. Pencil on paper, by an unknown internee (E.H.S), 14h August 1943. Private Collection. © P. Khosronejad.
Portrait of Willi Cremer [R36433]. Colour pencil on paper, by internee Rudolf Priester [R36699], 1941-1945. Priester Collection. © P. Khosronejad.

​Caricature

Hans Eberhard Wulff [R36838] in working position, Loveday Internment Camp. Colour pencil on paper, by internee Eugen von Mensdroff [R36646], 1942. Wulff Collection. © Curator P. Khosronejad.
Hermann Sucker [R36728] in working position, Loveday Internment Camp. Colour pencil on paper, by internee Eugen von Mensdroff [R36646], 1942. Wulff Collection. © Curator P. Khosronejad.
Construction inside Loveday Internment Camp. Colour pencil on paper, by internee Eugen von Mensdroff [R36646], 4th December 1942. Private Collection. © P. Khosronejad.
Loveday Song in the occasion of Christmas Day, Loveday Internment Camp. Black ink on paper, probably by internee Eugen von Mensdroff [R36646], 1941. Wulff Collection. © Curator P. Khosronejad.

​Watercolour

The Renmark Bush, Loveday Internment Camp. Water colour on paper, by internee Fritz Bambach [R36428], 1943. Private Collection. © P. Khosronejad.
Compound 14A, Camp 10, Loveday Internment Camp. Water colour on paper, by internee Fritz Bambach [R36428], 1944. Private Collection. © P. Khosronejad.
Hut 53, Camp 10, Loveday Internment Camp. Water colour on paper, by internee Franz Körbler [R36590], 1942. Private Collection. © P. Khosronejad.
Roadmaking, Camp 10, Loveday Internment Camp. Water colour on paper, by internee Josef Vogel ? [R36808], 1942. Private Collection. © P. Khosronejad.
Fritz Bambach [R36428] in his quarter inside the hut, Camp 10, Loveday Internment Camp. Water colour on paper, by internee Fritz Bambach, 1944. Private Collection. © P. Khosronejad.
Chess players, Camp 10, Loveday Internment Camp. Water colour on paper, by unknown internee, 1943-45. Wulff Collection. © Curator P. Khosronejad.
Inside the Hut, Camp 10, Loveday Internment Camp. Water colour on paper, by internee Carl von Brandenstein ? [R36413], 1943-45. Wulff Collection. © Curator P. Khosronejad.
Inside the library, Camp 10, Loveday Internment Camp. Dr. H. E. Wulff was the founder librarian of Camp 10. Water colour on paper, by unknown internee, 1943-45. Wulff Collection. © Curator P. Khosronejad.

Print

Landscape, Loveday Internment Camp. Etching on paper, by unknown internee, 1943-45. Wulff Collection. © Curator P. Khosronejad.
Laundry hut, Camp 10, Loveday Internment Camp. Etching on paper, by unknown internee, 1943-45. Private Collection. © P. Khosronejad.
Inside the Hut, Camp 10, Loveday Internment Camp. Woodcut on paper, by internee Carl von Brandenstein [R36413], 1943. Wulff Collection. © Curator P. Khosronejad.
Artwork on the occasion of Christmas, Camp 10, Loveday Internment Camp. Woodcut on paper, by internee Carl von Brandenstein [R36413], 1942. Wulff Collection. © Curator P. Khosronejad.
Inside Camp 10, Loveday Internment Camp. Linocut on paper, by internee Carl von Brandenstein [R36413], 1942. Wulff Collection. © Curator P. Khosronejad.

Oil Painting

Portrait of Willi Cremer [R36433]. Oil painting on wood, by internee Rudolf Priester [R36699], 1944. Cremer Collection. © P. Khosronejad.
Project curated by Professor Pedram Khosronejad
Produced in association with Tim Stackpool,  Inside The Gallery - Podcast
This project acknowledges Australia’s First Nations Peoples as the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the land and gives respect to the Elders – past and present – and through them to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

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