Yosl Bergner 'The Scholars' flora

Yosl Bergner 'The Scholars' floraYosl Bergner is one of Australias most important artists. Born in Austria and raised in Poland, he and his family immigrated to Australia in 1937 to escape anti semitism. In Melbourne, Bergner attended the National Art School and befriended the Heide circle, who included Sidney Nolan, Albert Tucker and John Perceval. It was alongside Noel Coulihan and Vic OConnor however, that Bergner made his indeminable mark. Self described as a social humanist,

His life was spent between the slog of manual labour and his love of art

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Art Gallery of New South Wales and Queensland Art Gallery

as well as admirers of Bergner enduring legacy

oil on masonite

let ‘Dark Sunset’ open your collection’s horizons

it is intrepid in subject and spirit

'Heart on a Hill' 1989

their eyes reaching past the viewer to a world we are not privy to

Blackman pictures a figure carrying a vase of flowers

becomes part of a family’s story

whose work is recognized widely and has been exhibited around the world