Bruce Dellit b. 1899 Redfern, Sydney, NSW

Also known as:
  • C. Bruce Dellit
  • C. B. Dellit
  • Charles Bruce Dellit
  • Artist (Painter)
  • Architect (Architect / Interior Architect / Landscape Architect)
Early 20th century Sydney art deco architect and painter.
Talk | Version history | Updated Oct. 19, 2011 | Created Jan. 1, 1999
Name
Bruce Dellit
Also known as:
  • C. Bruce Dellit
  • C. B. Dellit
  • Charles Bruce Dellit
Birth date
1899
Birth place
Redfern, Sydney, NSW
Death date
1942
Death place
Hornsby, Sydney, NSW
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Artist (Painter)
  • Architect (Architect / Interior Architect / Landscape Architect)
Residence
  • c.1921 Brisbane, Qld
  • c.1935- c.1942 Fox Valley Road, Wahroonga, Sydney, NSW
  • 1899- 1942 Sydney, New South Wales
Active Period
  • c.1919- c.1942
Languages
  • English
Training
  • University of Sydney, NSW
  • Sydney Technical College, Ultimo, Sydney, NSW
Is Indigenous
No
Initial Record Data Source
  • Legacy data. Source 'unknown'

architect and painter

Trained under Byera Hadley at Sydney Technical College and Leslie Wilkinson at the University of Sydney.

Chief draftsman on the Brisbane City Hall project in the 1920s. While in Brisbane he worked on a number of landscape paintings, one of which, In Roma Street (watercolour, 1921), was acquired by the then National Art Gallery of New South Wales in 1922.

Dellit’s buildings include Kyle House and the Anzac Memorial in Sydney. He also designed the art deco interiors of the Kinsella funeral chapel (later used as a famous Sydney nightclub) and the Hotel Australia’s ballroom. His own house in Wahroonga was of a more modest, Spanish-influenced design.

“Mr Dellit’s architecture trends along modern lines, and for his achievements in this direction he merits great praise” – Decoration and Glass , 1 July 1935, p 40.

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Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1999
Last updated:
2011
associate of
Rayner Hoff
1894
Artist (Sculptor)
associate of
Sodersteen Emil Sodersten
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
child of
née Mack Agnes Gertude Dellit
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
child of
Albert Dellit
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Byera Hadley
Architect
associate of
Leslie Wilkinson
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
NSW Institute of Architects
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
Collections
NSW Institute of Architects
1922
Exhibition (exhibited at)
Sydney, NSW
Citations:
  • (1 July 1935), Intimate glimpses of an architect's home, (Place: Sydney, NSW : Decoration and Glass, Volume 1, Number 3, pp 22-3; 40)
  • NSW Death Records : 18399/1942
  • NSW Marriage Records : 1525/1898
  • NSW Birth Records : 6507/1899
  • Reynolds, Peter; and Apperley, Richard, (1993), 'Dellit, Charles Bruce (1898 - 1942)', (Place: Melbourne, Vic : Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 13, Melbourne University Press, pp 612-613)