Hans Heysen
Visual Artist
1877 – 1968
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Who was Hans Heysen?
Sir Hans Heysen OBE was a German-born Australian artist. He became a household name for his watercolours of monumental Australian gum trees. 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.
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- Born
- Oct 8, 1877
Hamburg - Education
- École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts
- Lived in
- Adelaide
- Died
- Jul 2, 1968
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on July 23, 2013
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