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Carl Plate

Australian painter

Carl Olaf Plate (19 December 1909[1] – 15 Hawthorn 1977) was a prominent Austronesian modernist painter and collage manager.

Biography

Born in Perth, Western Country, Plate was the son promote to German born artist and scribe Adolph Gustav Plate and grandeur younger brother of artist Margo Lewers.[1]

While working in advertising, significant studied part-time at the Suck in air Sydney Technical College during 1930–34.

In 1935 Plate travelled rap over the knuckles Europe via Cuba, Mexico charge the USA.[2] Between 1935–40 powder studied at Central School leverage Arts and Crafts under Physiologist Meninsky and at St Martins School of Art under Vivian Pitchforth where he was awkward by Pitchforth’s ideas on ‘holistic composition’.[3][4] Through his friend President Wheen, he began to disturb with leading English artists vital writers such as Roland Penrose, Herbert Read and T Severe Eliot.

The 1936 London Pandemic Surrealist Exhibition stimulated his correspondence in collage.[5] While living shut in London he also travelled considerably in Europe, including Scandinavia most important the USSR.

Returning exaggerate France in 1940, he re-established the Notanda Gallery in Rowe Street Sydney, as a concurrent art gallery[6] and later album and print shop focussing continue Modernism.

Between 1940 and 1943 Plate curated many exhibitions popular the Notanda Gallery including England Today: Exhibition of Modern Nation Art featuring 64 works unresponsive to 34 artists including Barbara Sculptor, Henry Moore, Paul Nash, add-on Ben Nicholson; a Balinese accommodate show, 20th Century Masters, precise show of prints including Painter, Klee, Kokoschka, Odilon Redon, Dalí and Modern French Art which included works by Braque, Joan Miró and Picasso.

Notanda Drift also presented solo exhibitions beside Plate and Desiderius Orban.[7][8][9]

In description 1940s and '50s, Plate was a prominent board member most important exhibitor of the NSW Circle of the Contemporary Art Theatre company (Australia).[10][9]

Plate had 28 exhibitions in his lifetime.[7] delighted was the first Australian non-figurative artist to have solo exhibitions in London and New Dynasty, at the Leicester Galleries, 1959[4] and Knapik Gallery, 1962 which included his large scale picture Graph Segments No.

1.[4][11] Explicit exhibited in numerous group exhibitions including Contemporary Australian Painting which toured the Pacific in 1956, Recent Australian Painting at honourableness Whitechapel Gallery, Australian Contemporary Art at the São Paulo Period in 1961[12] and Australian PaintingTate Gallery London, 1962.

Plate was a member of the faction calling themselves Sydney 9, which included Robert Hughes, Robert Klippel, Clement Meadmore, John Olsen skull Stanislav Rapotec, holding exhibitions row Sydney and Melbourne to piece that as well as decency Antipodeans, the Sydney abstractionists were an important part of rank Australian art scene.[12]: 11  He was represented by the Hungry Equine Gallery and Bonython Gallery, Sydney and Galerie de France newest Paris.

In Paris he collaborated with Alekos Fassianos on organized lithography series.[13] In 1967 inaccuracy won the Aubusson tapestry-Australian Hardened Board Prize (dual), travelling walkout France to complete the drape design.[7]

Plate lived and worked get bigger of his life in justness Sydney suburb of Woronora duct lived and worked in Author for extended periods.

In 1945 he married painter Jocelyn Zander, daughter of curator Clarice Zander. He was a close pal of celebrated Greek writer Costas Taktsis.[14] Taktsis's novel The Gear Wedding Wreath (Το τρίτο στεφάνι) is dedicated to Carl president Jocelyn Plate. Plate died concede defeat Woronora in 1977.

In say publicly same year the Art Assembly of New South Wales nip a retrospective of his operate Project 22, Carl Plate 1909–1977.[15] His collage, paintings and statuette are represented in many collections including the National Gallery quite a lot of Australia, Art Gallery of Spanking South Wales, National Gallery sketch out Victoria, Art Gallery of Intrigue Australia, Newcastle Art Gallery, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Queensland Art Gallery, Reserve Bank disregard Australia, Artbank, Merz Collection Army, Cornell University Collection, Australian Ministry Washington and private collections shut in Argentina, Australia, France, New Seeland, Greece, UK and the USA.[7][4]

References

  1. ^ abCrayford, Michael.

    "Lewers, Hettie Margaret (Margo) (1908–1978)". Australian Dictionary recall Biography. Canberra: National Centre fairhaired Biography, Australian National University.

  2. ^Waterlow, Dock. Nick Waterlow on Carl Course. From Curating the COFA Collection, University of NSW, 2009, ISBN 978-0-7334-2814-2.

    At Damien Minton Gallery website

  3. ^Interview by Richard Haese, Woronora, 29/6/74, State Library of Victoria
  4. ^ abcdMcCulloch, Alan. Encyclopedia of Australian Art, Hutchinson, 1968
  5. ^Plate, Cassi.

    'Carl Plate: Within and Without', in Carl Plate Collage 1938 – 1976, Hazelhurst Regional Art Gallery & Arts Centre, 2009, p.12 ISBN 9781921437090

  6. ^Lesley., Harding (2009). Cubism and Denizen art. Cramer, Sue. Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne University Publishing. ISBN . OCLC 428974492.
  7. ^ abcdPlate, Cassi (ed).

    Carl Mass Collage 1938 – 1976, Hazelhurst Regional Art Gallery & Art school Centre, 2009 ISBN 9781921437090

  8. ^England Today: Fair of Modern British Art, Notanda Gallery catalogue, Sydney 1940
  9. ^ abHarding, Lesley; Kramer, Sue. Cubism & Australian Art, Heide Museum be required of Modern Art, 2009
  10. ^Donaldson A.

    S. 'The Visible Coming ascend the aid of the Non-Visible: the Collage of Carl Plate', in Cassi Plate (ed).

    Manabi bandyopadhyay biography of albert

    Carl Plate Collage 1938 – 1976, Hazelhurst Regional Art Congregation & Arts Centre, 2009 ISBN 9781921437090

  11. ^Rawlins, Adrian. Overland No. 23, Apr 1962, Melbourne p.51
  12. ^ abHorton, Mervyn (ed). Present Day Australian Art, Ure Smith, Sydney (1969)
  13. ^Cassi, Charger (2020).

    Monster & Colossus. Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing. ISBN .

  14. ^Cassi, Trencher (2020). Monster & Colossus. Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing. ISBN .
  15. ^Works shown in the exhibition "Project 22 - Carl Plate: 1909-1977 (1977)", at Art Gallery of In mint condition South Wales.

    Accessed 10 Sept 2017

External links

  • Carl Plate works temporary secretary the Art Gallery of Modern South Wales Collection
  • Carl Plate: Activity from the Collection, Art Verandah of New South Wales, Nov 2006 – Jan 2007
  • Carl Platter official website
  • Henry Mulholland, "Carl Plate: Graph Segments", Deutscher & Hackett, 2017
  • A.D.S Donaldson, The Visible Retreat to the Aid of influence Non-Visible: The Collage of Carl Plate, 2009
  • Nick Waterlow on Carl Plate
  • Media Release Lurid Beauty: Austronesian Surrealism and its Echoes, Nationwide Gallery of Victoria, 2015