The National Library Magazine
Our quarterly magazine
June 2010
On the cover:
The respected modernist artist Ludwig Hirshfeld-Mack was among the ‘enemy aliens’ who sailed to Australia on the Dunera in 1940. In the 1920s, he trained and worked at the profoundly influential Bauhaus School in Weimar, central Germany.
Between September 1940 and April 1942,
Hirschfeld-Mack was interned at the Hay, Orange
and Tatura camps.
His woodcut prints from this
time speak powerfully of the daily life and personal
toll of internment. Read more
about the ‘Dunera Boys’
Contents:
- The Dunera Boys (702KB PDF File)
- Picturing Progress: Rediscovering Joseph Backler’s View of Brisbane (602KB PDF File)
- Charles Scrivener: The Surveyor as Town Planner (738KB PDF File)
- Carved emu eggs: A unique Australian art form (679KB PDF File)
- Medals, suffragettes and swimmers (636KB PDF File)
- The Beautiful, the Beguiling and the Bizarre (804KB PDF File)
- Be the life of the party, learn a few magic tricks (638KB PDF File)
- A date with digital history (609KB PDF File)
- Friends (1.05MB PDF File)
- Cover to Cover (3.62MB PDF File)
