Yosl Bergner 'The Stranger, from The Kimberley Album' neo-expressionism

Yosl Bergner 'The Stranger, from The Kimberley Album' neo-expressionismThe story behind this work is stranger than fiction. It begins in 1933 when Yiddish poet, playwright, essayist and activist Melech Ravitch (a pseudonym for Zekharye Khone Bergner) left Europe in search of a new home for Europes increasingly threatened Jewish population. He arrived in Australia with the fantasy that among the Kimberleys lied the Promised Land for his people. Decades later his son, the acclaimed artist Yosl Bergner, memorialised this

Dimensions: 29 x 38 cm

Endowed with the rich inner-life of any person - plus centuries of symbolism - Auguste’s work evokes the draw humans feel towards animals

" This emboldened ferocity emanates from ‘Fire Won’t Burn…’

Rankin’s depiction of his wife is bathed in awe at her resilience

titled and numbered in pencil in margin below image: 14/60 THE HAMMOCK CASSAB 04

Image Size: 46 x 65 cm

Nudelman knows acutely the experience of being severed from one’s roots

the voyager

the thrashing sea becomes a site of alienation

Across her fruitful career

Blackman was also inspired by the murder of thirteen year-old Alma Tirtschke in 1921

Image Size: 90 x 66 cm