Description
Depicts a group of soldiers and civilians relaxing in Hungary. Three figures are standing or walking and eight figures are sitting and leaning against one another. The artist changed his name from Baumgarten to Gardener after he migrated to Australia at the age of 30 on the 8th of March 1938, landing at Fremantle. "I was prompted to this decision by economic and political reasons, seeing no future for me and my wife in fascistic Austria under Schuschnig's government" he wrote. He had served as an artillery photographer with the Imperial Austra-Hungarian Army, and following this set up his own photographic studio. Following this he worked as a salesman at the Australian Fiat Automobile works in Vienna before being dismissed from office after the German occupation. In Australia, at the age of 58, Private Arthur Gardener, assisted in the efforts of the Second World War on the home front in the 3rd Australian Employment Coy (N303400).
Details
Accession Number
ART50044
Object Type
Work on paper
Physical Description
Medium: pencil on paper
Measurement
Overall: 12.4 cm x 17.8 cm
Credit Line
Presented 1985
Copyright
AWM Licensed copyright
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