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Sir Hans Heysen OBE (8 October 1877 – 2 July 1968) was a German-born Australian artist. He became a household name for his watercolours of monumental Australian gum trees. He is one of Australia's best known landscape painters.[1] Heysen also produced images of men and animals toiling in the Australian bush, as well as groundbreaking depictions of arid landscapes in the Flinders Ranges. He won the Wynne Prize for landscape painting a record nine times.

Hans Heysen
Hans Heysen by Harold Cazneaux ca. 1935
Born	Wilhelm Ernst Hans Franz Heysen (1877-10-08)8 October 1877 Hamburg, Germany
Died	2 July 1968(1968-07-02) (aged 90) Mount Barker, South Australia
Nationality	Australian
Known for	Painting
Movement	Adelaide Easel Club
Patron(s)	H H Wigg, W L Davidson, F A Joyner, Charles Henry de Rose

Biography

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 at Art School in his spare time, under James Ashton. He joined the Adelaide Easel Club in 1897 and was immediately recognized as a rising talent.[2]

At age 20 he was sponsored by a group of wealthy Adelaide art enthusiasts H. H. Wigg and brothers-in-law W. L. Davidson, and F. A. Joyner, and miner Charles Henry de Rose to study art for four years in France.[3]

By 1912 Hans Heysen had earned enough from his art to purchase a property called "The Cedars" near Hahndorf in the Adelaide Hills, which remained as his home until his death in 1968 aged 90. Hans Heysen is best remembered for his remarkable paintings depicting sheep and cattle among massive gum trees against a background of stunning atmospheric effects of light.[4]

Family

Heysen married Selma Bartels (1878–1962) on 15 December 1904. Her father was Adolph H. F. Bartels, a former Mayor of Adelaide. Their daughter Nora Heysen was also a successful artist.

Wynne Prize

Heysen won the Wynne Prize nine times. His winning works were:

• 1904 – Mystic Morn
• 1909 – Summer (watercolour)
• 1911 – Hauling Timber
• 1920 – Toilers (watercolour)
• 1922 – The Quarry (watercolour)
• 1924 – Afternoon in Autumn (watercolour)
• 1926 – Farmyard, Frosty Morning
• 1931 – Red Gums of the Far North (watercolour)
• 1932 – Brachina Gorge

Recognition

• In 1937 Heysen became an invited foundation member of, and exhibited, with Robert Menzies' anti-modernist organisation, the Australian Academy of Art.[5]
• In 1945, he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for service as trustee of the Hobart National Gallery[6]
• In 1959, he was made a Knight Bachelor for service to art[7]
• The Heysen Trail and Heysen Tunnels were named after Heysen
• The Electoral district of Heysen in the Parliament of South Australia is named after Heysen

See also

• Australian art

References

External links

• article at the Australian Dictionary of Biography
• education kit at the National Gallery of Victoria
• The three gums – Ballarat Fine Art Gallery

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[de] Hans Heysen

Sir Hans Heysen, OBE, (* 8. Oktober 1877 in Hamburg; † 2. Juli 1968) war ein australischer Künstler. Er war besonders für seine Aquarelle des australischen Busches bekannt und gewann mehrfach den Wynne-Preis.

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- [en] Hans Heysen

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[it] Hans Heysen

Sir Hans Heysen (nome completo: Wilhelm Ernst Hans Franz Heysen; Amburgo, 8 ottobre 1877 – Hahndorf, 2 luglio 1968) è stato un pittore australiano di origine tedesca, divenuto famoso per i suoi acquerelli che ritraggono il bush australiano e per aver vinto il Wynne Prize per ben nove volte.

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