Beschreibung:

29 : 22 cm. 174 pages with 81 b/w illustrations and 82 partly coloured illustrations on plates. Illusstrated original boards.

Bemerkung:

Karl (Karol) Duldig (1902-1986) born in Przemysl (Premissl), Poland then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire due to annexation, and later moved to Vienna. Following the Anschluss in August 1938 he left Vienna and travelled to Switzerland were he was later joined by his wife Slawa Horowitz Duldig and his daughter Eva Duldig. In 1939 they travelled to Singapore ? from where they were later deported, and were sent to Australia ? where for two years he and his family were interned as enemy aliens. As a sculptor, he often used a minimalist style, won the 1956 Victorian Sculptor of the Year Award, and had an annual lecture established in his name by the National Gallery of Victoria. He studied sculpture under Anton Hanak at the Kunstgewerbeschule from 1921?25. He then studied sculpture at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Vienna from 1925?29. From 1930-1933 he undertook Masters studies with Professor Josef Müller at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste. - He was founder of the present-day Duldig Studio, an artists' house museum in Melbourne, Australia. He often used a minimalist style.In 1956 Duldig won the Victorian Sculptor of the Year Award. In 1968, his bronze statue in memory of fallen sportspeople who were killed in the Holocaust was unveiled in Tel Aviv, Israel.