ROBERT PRENZEL, 1866 - 1941. His Life & Work.
Melbourne, Published by The National Gallery of Victoria. 1994. Tall 4to, pp.64 with black & white and colour illustrations, Quality pictorial softcover, a very good copy. Item #196547
'His story is an interesting and at times poignant one – a very talented Prussian carver lured to this country in 1888 by tales of ‘Marvelous Melbourne’, his formulation of a style of furniture that captured the mood and aspirations of newly-federated Australia, and his abandonment by his patrons during the anti-German campaign of the First World War. In a working life of almost five decades in the country he enjoyed barely ten years of real success. How harshly we have treated one of our most talented artists! ' NGV.
Price: $70.00