Albert namatjira biography
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Albert Namatjira
Albert Namatjira was born on 28 July , the first son of Namatjira and Ljukuta. His father was baptised at the Hermannsburg Lutheran Mission in and adopted the name ‘Jonathan’, and his mother was blessed with the name ‘Emilie’. In the same ceremony, their son Elea, was also baptised and given the now famous name, ‘Albert’.
The Hermannsburg Lutheran Mission was located at the base of Mt. Hermannsburg on the banks of the Finke River in central Australia. Established by missionaries Pastor Kemp and Schwarz in , the settlement was named after the German town, Hermannsburg, where they had trained. Namatjira attended the Lutheran Mission school as a young boy and at thirteen underwent his traditional initiation.
Around eighteen years of age, Namatjira left Hermannsburg to elope with Ilkalita. The couple returned to the mission with their three children in where Ilkalita was baptised and adopted the name ‘Rubina’.
To support his family, Namatjira worked on neighbouring
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Namatjira, Albert ( - )
Albert Namatjira was the first indigenous artist to paint and exhibit professionally in Western style. He painted his country and was both prodigious and successful, producing approximately two thousand pictures and founding a school of painting that continues today.
Namatjira, an Arrernte man, was born on 28th July nära Ntaria (site of the Hermannsburg uppdrag, about kilometres from Alice Springs). Visiting artist Rex Battarbee first taught him the technique of watercolour painting. In Battarbee took Namatjira on an eight-week painting tour, giving him the only tuition he was to receive.
Namatjira&#;s first solo exhibition of 41 works was held in Melbourne in All works sold quickly. Over the next ten years exhibitions were held in various capital cities of Australia and Namatjira became a celebrity. He was awarded the Queen&#;s Coronation medal in ; was flown to Canberra to meet the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh in ; his portrait, by William Dargie, w
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Albert Namatjira
Australian painter (–)
Albert Namatjira (pronounced[namacɪra]; born Elea Namatjira; 28 July – 8 August ) was an Arrernte painter from the MacDonnell Ranges in Central Australia, widely considered one of the most notable Australian artists. As a pioneer of contemporary Indigenous Australian art, he was arguably one of the most famous Indigenous Australians of his generation. He was the first Aboriginal artist to receive popularity from a wide Australian audience.[1]
A member of the Western Arrernte people, Namatjira was born and raised at the remote Hermannsburg Lutheran Mission, &#;km west-southwest from Alice Springs. He showed interest in art from an early age but it was not until (aged 32) and under the guidance of Rex Battarbee that he began to paint seriously. Namatjira's richly detailed, Western art-influenced watercolours of the outback departed significantly from the abstract designs and symbols of traditional Aboriginal art, and