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Hans Heysen
(1877 - 1968)
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Lived/Active: Australia/Germany
Known for: landscape with sheep and cattle and still life painting, atmospherics
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Sir Hans Heysen was a well-known German Australian artist. He was particularly recognized for his watercolours of the Australian bush. He won the Wynne Prize* for landscape painting a record nine times.
Wilhelm Ernst Hans Franz Heysen was born in Hamburg, Germany. He migrated to Adelaide in South Australia with his family in 1884 at the age of 7. As a young boy Heysen showed an early interest in art. At 14 he left school to work with a hardware merchant, later studying art during nights a (showing 500 of 2260 characters). |
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