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Hertha Kluge-Pott

SELECTED WORKS

 Hertha Kluge-Pott
1934     Born Berlin, Germany
1953-58 Dip. Art & Dip. Ed. Fine Art Berlin & Braunschweig, Academy of Art, Germany
1958 Arrived in Melbourne, Australia
1960-63 RMIT, Dip. Of Fine Art, Printmaking
1964-65 Study tour, Germany, Spain, Italy
1969 Print Council of Australia, Commissioned, Patron Print
1967-78 Lecturer in Printmaking, Melbourne State College, Melbourne
1974-75 Studies at Hamburg Academy of Art, U.K. & Italy
1979-84 Lecturer in Printmaking, RMIT
1985-92 Senior Lecturer in Printmaking, RMIT
1984-88 Board Member, Australian Print Workshop
1988 Print Council of Australia, Commissioned, Patron Print
1993-94 Lecturer, part-time, RMIT
1995 Lecturer, part-time, VCA
1995Collie Trust Grant
1996 Judge for Silk Cut Acquisitive Award, Melbourne
2003 Appointed patron of ‘Portland Bay Press’, Portland, Victoria (Print workshop & Studio established 2003)

Solo Exhibitions

2010'Recent Work', Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2005'Recent Work', Australian Galleries, Melbourne
Grahame Galleries + Editions, Brisbane
2001Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Sydney
1997Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1994Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1993Grahame Galleries + Editions, Brisbane
1990Powell Street Graphics Gallery, Melbourne
1987Powell Street Graphics Gallery, Melbourne
1985Works Gallery, Geelong
1982Stuart Gerstman Gallery, Melbourne
1981Studio One Print Workshop & Gallery, Brisbane
1978Susan Gillespie Gallery, Canberra
1972Vic Langsam Galleries Melbourne

Group Exhibitions

2010'Artists' prints made with integrity', Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2009-10, ‘Summer Stock Show’, Australian Galleries, Smith Street, Melbourne
‘Stock show’, Australian Galleries, Glenmore Road, Sydney
‘Artists’ ink: printmaking from the Warrnambool Art Gallery Collection, 1970-2001’, Ararat Regional Art Gallery, VIC
2008'Stock show', Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2006'Summer Stock Show', Australian Galleries, Melbourne
'50th Anniversary Exhibition', Australian Galleries, Melbourne
'Group Exhibition', Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2005'Contemporary Works on Paper', Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Melbourne
‘Notes from the Natural World’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2004‘Surface Tension’, Twenty one contemporary Australian printmakers, New York Society of Etchers inc, New York, Gallery 101, Melbourne & Academy Gallery, University of Tasmania, Launceston
‘Contemporary Australian Prints’ from the collection, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
‘Situate’, Prints from the collection, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Warrnambool
‘Artists’ Books and So…’, Grahame Galleries & Editions, Brisbane
‘Panorama’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
‘Species’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2002‘Landscapes’, Australian Galleries, Sydney
‘Wild Nature in Contemporary Australian Art and Craft’, Jam Factory, Adelaide
2001‘Workings of the mind; Melbourne Prints 1960’s-1990’s, Heidi Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
‘ ‘Landscape and Environment’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
‘Contemporary Works on Paper’, Australian Galleries, Sydney
2000‘Australian Identities in Printmaking’, Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery, Wagga Wagga
‘Workings of the Mind; Melbourne Prints 1960s – 1990s’, Queensland University of Technology Art Museum, Brisbane
‘Prints, Drawings & Watercolours’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1999Rena Ellen Jones Memorial Print Award, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Warrnambool
Australian Paper Awards, George Adams Gallery, Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne
Australian Paper Awards, Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra
Australian Paper Awards, University of Technology, Ultimo, Sydney
1998-99, ‘Look Again: Contemporary prints and drawings from the collection’, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
‘Australian Prints from the Collection’, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
‘Fremantle Print Award Exhibition, Fremantle
‘Decalogue’, Catalogue of 10 years of Australian Printmaking, Metropolitan Museum of Seoul, Korea
‘The Big Small Print Show’, Grahame Galleries & Editions, Brisbane
1997‘I Had a Dream’, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
‘Warrnambool Print Award, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Warrnambool
‘Australian Printmedia Award Exhibition, University of Western Sydney, Macarthur
‘Geelong Acquisitive Print Prize Exhibition, Geelong
‘Relationships’, Works on Paper, Irene Amos Collection, Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Toowoomba
1996Male Formy Grafica, Lodz, Poland
UWS Macarthur National Printmedia Acquisitive Exhibition Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney
‘People, Prints & Patronage’, 1900-1996 Print Collection of Geelong Art Gallery
1995‘Contemporary Printmakers from Australian Galleries’, LaTrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell
‘Sites & Places: A Survey exhibition with Danny McDonald’, touring Victorian & South Australian Regional Galleries, organised by Riddoch Art Gallery
‘Recent Prints’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
‘Eveolution’, Newcastle Regional Art Gallery, Newcastle
1994Artists Book Fair, State Library of Queensland, Brisbane
1993City of Richmond Acquisitive Award Exhibition, Melbourne
1992Henri Worland Acquisitive Award Survey Exhibition, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Warrnambool
‘Transitional Times Plus’, Print Council of Australia & Faculty of Art & Design, RMIT
1991IV Biennale Small Graphic Forms, Ostrow, Poland
Students Choice, Survey Exhibition, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, Wagga Wagga
1990-91, Henri Worland Print Award Exhibition, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Warrnambool
-91, Acquisitive Award Exhibitions, M.L.C, Melbourne
‘A New Image, Prints’, Powell Street Graphics, Melbourne
1989-91, ‘Small Graphic Forms’, Lodz, Poland
1988‘With the Imprint of Another Culture’, Print Council of Australia., touring exhibition
1987Yarra Valley High School, Print Award Exhibition, Victoria
Henri Worland Print Award Exhibition, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Warrnambool
1985-93, Fremantle Print Award Exhibition, Fremantle
'Australian prints 85', Print Council of Australia Exhibition to the University of Oregon, Memphis
'Brooks Museum of Art', USA
1984-96, Print Biennial, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington
Selected mini prints, Print Council of Australia Travelling Exhibition, Australian State Galleries, Japan AICHI Cultural Centre, OGISU Memorial Museum, Toyohashi City Museum
1983Stuart Gerstman Galleries, Melbourne
Diamond Valley Art Award Exhibition, Victoria
1982‘12 Australian Printmakers’, Oxford, UK
Darmstadt-Hessisches Landes Museum, Bayreuth
Erlangen University, Germany
1978Australian Etching, Print Council of Australia
National Gallery of Victoria & Main State Galleries
1972-76, International Print Biennale, Krakow, Poland
‘Images’, Australian Department of Foreign Affairs, India
1963-65, ‘Studio One Printmakers’, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
-64, Australian Print Survey, Print Council of Australia, Travelling Exhibition

Bibliography

Butler, Roger; With the Imprint Of Another Culture, Print Council of Australia Catalogue, 1988
Directory of Australian Printmakers, Print Council of Australia, 1976, 1982, 1988
Germaine, Max; Artists and Galleries of Australia, Booralong, 1984
Grishin, Sasha; Australian Identities in Printmaking, catalogue essay, Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery, 2000
Grishin, Sasha; Australian Printmaking In The 1990’s, Craftsman House, 1996
Grishin, Sasha; Canberra Times, 20 November 1999
Grishin, Sasha; Contemporary Australian Printmaking, Craftsman House, 1994
Harding, Lesley; & Humphries, Tristan; Australian Paper Art Awards, catalogue essay, the George Adams Gallery, Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne, 1999
Imprint, Print Council of Australia, Volume 26, No. 3, October, 1991
Imprint, Print Council of Australia, Volume 31, No. 2, Winter, 1996
Kempf, F.; Contemporary Australian Printmakers, Lansdowne, 1976
Kolenberg, Hendrik; & Ryan, Anne; Australian Prints from the Gallery’s Collection, Art Gallery of NSW, 1998
Larkin, Annette; Eveolution, Works by Australian Women Artists from Newcastle Regional Art Gallery’s Permanent Collection, Catalogue, February 1995           
McCulloch, Alan; Encyclopaedia of Australian Art, Hutchinson, 1974, 1984
McCulloch, Allan; Encyclopaedia of Australian Art, revised and updated by Susan McCulloch, Allan & Unwin, NSW, 1994
McDonald, Katherine; Henri Worland Memorial Print Award 1972-1992; A Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition, catalogue essay, published by Warrnambool Art Gallery, 1992
McDonald, Katherine; ‘The Recent Cape Bridgewater drypoints of Hertha Kluge-Pott’, Imprint, Print Council of Australia, Winter, Volume 28, Number 2, 1993
McDonald, Katherine; ‘Truth In Nature In South Western Victoria; The Prints of Hertha Kluge-Pott in a Colonial Context’, Imprint, Print Council of Australia Volume 33, No. 1, 1998
Nelson, Robert; ‘Australian Paper Art Awards’, The Age, 29 September, 1999
Optimum, RMIT ’89, Selection of Works by distinguished Fine Art and Photography Graduates of RMIT
Osborne, Margot; Wild nature in contemporary Australian art & craft, catalogue, Jam Factory, South Australia, 2002
Palmer, Sheridan; ‘Australian Paper Art Awards 99’, Imprint, Print Council of Australia, Volume 34, No 3, 1999
Phipps, Jennifer; I Had a Dream, catalogue essay, National Gallery of Victoria, 1997
Rainbird, Stephen; Selected Australian Works, catalogue essay, Queensland University of Technology Art Museum, 1995
Rainbird, Stephen; Workings of the Mind, Contemporary Prints, post 1960, catalogue essay, Queensland University of Technology Art Museum, 2000
Robb, Gevenda; & Smith, Elaine; Concise Dictionary of Australian Artists, Melbourne University Press, 1993
Sierra-Hughes, Marie; ‘Landscape of the mind’, Herald-Sun, September 14, 1994
Slessar, Michael; Australian Studies, an Investigative Approach, Our Society, VCTA Publishing, 1990
Soumilas, Dianne; ‘Conceptual Chaos’, Imprint, Print Council of Australia, Volume 29, No. 4, 1994
Soumilas, Dianne; Sites & Places: A Survey, Etchings/Drypoint by Hertha Kluge-Pott & Serigraphs by Danny McDonald, touring exhibition catalogue, Riddoch Art Gallery, South Australia, 1995
The Age, interview, September 1988
Thorpe, D.W.(ed.); Contemporary Australian Women 1996, Reed Reference, Australia
Women 150, 150 Victorian Women Artists, Visual Arts Board of Australia, 1987
Zimmer, Jenny; ‘5 Berliners in Melbourne’, Aspect, No 29/30, Autumn, 1984
Zimmer, Jenny; ‘A geography of awesome art’, The Age, 7 October, 1997

Awards

1996Daily Telegraph Mirror Acquisitive Award, University of Western Sydney, Macarthur
1993Murwillumbah Community Printmakers Inc. Acquisitive Award, Queensland
1990MLC Acquisitive Art Award, Melbourne
1981-88Print Biennale Acquisitive Award, Mornington Peninsula Arts Centre, Mornington (1981, 1982, 1984, 1987 & 1988)
1989-91Henri Worland Acquisitive Art Award, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Warrnambool (1989 & 1991)
1966F.E. Richardson Print Prize, Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong

Collections

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Artbank
Australian Embassy, Singapore
Australian Paper Corporate Art Collection
B.H.P. Collection
Brisbane College of the Arts, QLD
Centre for the Artist Book Collection, Grahame Galleries & Editions, Brisbane
City Art Gallery, Newcastle, NSW
City of Banyule, VIC
City of Whitehorse, VIC
Deakin University, VIC
Department of Foreign Affairs, Canberra
Education Department of Victoria, VIC           
Geelong Art Gallery, VIC
Geelong Grammar School\Yarra Valley School Gallery, VIC
Ipswich City Art Gallery, NSW
Lodz, Poland: Male Formy Grafici
Methodist Ladies College, VIC
Monash University Collection, VIC
Mornington Peninsula Art Centre, VIC
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Ostrow City Museum, Poland
Print Council of Australia
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, QLD
Queensland State Library - James Hardy Collection, QLD
Queensland University of Technology, QLD
Queensland University of Technology, Art Museum Brisbane, QLD
Riddoch Art Gallery, SA
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, VIC
Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, NSW
University of Melbourne, VIC
University of Western Sydney, Macarthur Collection, WA
Wagga Wagga City Art Gallery, NSW
Warrnambool Art Gallery, VIC