Frederick Schonbach b. Vienna, Austria

  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
One of the "Dunera Boys" interned in Hay, NSW, during WWII. Artist and cartoonist.
Talk | Version history | Updated Oct. 19, 2011 | Created Jan. 1, 1996
Name
Frederick Schonbach
Birth date
Birth place
Vienna, Austria
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Residence
  • c.1941- c.1942 Hay, New South Wales
  • c.1946 Brazil
  • c.1945- c.1946 Melbourne, Victoria
  • c.1938- c.1940 UK
  • c.1938 Vienna, Austria
Arrival
  • c.1940 (McCulloch says arrived on the 'Dunera' in 1938. The 'Dunera Boys' arrived in 1940 : 1938 was the time Schonbach and Fabian left Europe for the UK.)
Active Period
  • c.1945- c.1946
Languages
  • English
Is Indigenous
No
Initial Record Data Source
  • Black and white artists

cartoonist and illustrator, born Vienna; arrived Australia in 1940 aboard the prison ship Dunera .

Reputedly worked for the Australasian Post in 1945-46 when the art editor was Alan McCulloch , along with Albert Tucker and McCulloch himself. One of the Dunera Boys who worked at Australasian Post (Frederick Schonbach, Erwin Fabian and Klaus Friedeberger ), winning a prize in the Post 's 1945 black-and-white art competition. He migrated to Brazil c.1946.

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Writers:
Kerr, Joan
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007
associate of
Erwin Fabian
1915
Artist (Sculptor), Designer (Industrial / Product Designer), Artist (Printmaker), Designer (Graphic Designer)
associate of
Klaus Friedeberger
1922
Artist (Painter)
associate of
Alan McLeod McCulloch
1907
Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator), Artist (Painter)
associate of
Albert Tucker
1914
Artist (Painter), Artist (Photographer), Artist (Ceramist)
associate of
The Dunera Boys
Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
associate of
Ludwig Hirschfeld Mack
1893
Artist (Industrial / Product Designer), Artist (Performance Artist), Artist (Printmaker), Artist (Painter)
associate of
Fred Lowen
Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Citations:
  • McCulloch, Alan, (1984), Encyclopedia of Australian art, (Place: Melbourne, Vic : Hutchinson of Australia (2nd revised edition))