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Frank Weitzel

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printmaker, sculptor and decorative artist, studied in America before following his family to Australia in 1928. There he rented a studio at Circular Quay where he produced sculpture and linocuts as well as Arts and Crafts pieces such as lampshades, book-ends, wall hangings and batik shawls. He is presumably the 'F.W.' who did the colour cover of New Triad used for the final issues of March-July 1928.

Weitzel worked closely with Ronald Wakelin and exhibited with the Society of Artists and the Group of Seven at Macquarie Galleries in 1930. Only 14 linocuts are known, some produced before he arrived in Australia. They are strong images, all apparently in colour, eg Island Legend [German expressionist primitive], not dated, and Cafe [sailors in port] c.1927 (ill. Lebovic & Warner, Fifty Years, cats 100, 101) Latter also ill. Josef Lebovic Gallery, 20th Anniversary Exhibition Collectors' List 1997 No.63, Paddington 12 April-17 May 1997, no.140, which gives alternate birth-date.

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Joan Kerr.

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Also known as:

W., F.

Note:

attributed

Gender:

Male

Birth:

Date:

c. 1905-11-22

Place:

Levin, New Zealand

Note:

22 November 1905 according to Gail Ross, 2005; 1906 according to Josef Lebovic, 1997 and National Gallery of Australia; b.1902 according to Stephen Scheding, in Josef Levbovic, 1987

Arrival:

Date:

1928

Period active:

Dates:

1921 - 1932

Death:

Date:

1932-02-22

Place:

Wellington, New Zealand

Medium:

Print

Medium:

Sculpture

Medium:

Design (product, commercial, industrial, environmental, landscape)

Artwork:

Title:

Island Legend

Artwork:

Title:

Cafe

Date:

c. 1927

Exhibition:

Title:

New South Wales Society of Artists exhibition

Date:

1930

Place:

Education Department's Art Gallery, Sydney, New South Wales

Exhibition:

Title:

Group of Seven

Date:

1930

Place:

Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, New South Wales

Exhibition:

Title:

20th Anniversary Exhibition Collectors' List 1997 No.63

Date:

1997-04-12 - 1997-05-17

Place:

Josef Lebovic Gallery, Paddington, New South Wales

Exhibition:

Title:

Masterpieces of Australian printmaking

Date:

1987-04-30 - 1987-05-30

Place:

Josef Lebovic Gallery, Paddington, New South Wales

Exhibition:

Title:

Fifty years of Australian printmaking: Sydney Long to Eric Thake

Date:

1988-08-13 - 1988-09-10

Place:

Josef Lebovic Gallery, Paddington, New South Wales

Collection:

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Collection:

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Associate:

Wakelin, Ronald

Associated organisation:

New South Wales Society of Artists

Associated organisation:

Group of Seven

Cultural heritage:

New Zealand

Cultural heritage:

German

Family member:

Person:

Weitzel, Hedwig (Hetty)

Relation:

sister

Family member:

Person:

Weitzel, Marie (née Benninghoven)

Relation:

mother

Family member:

Person:

Weitzel, Friedrich Gustav

Relation:

father

Residence:

Dates:

1905 - 1912

Place:

Wellington, New Zealand

Residence:

Dates:

1930 - 1932

Place:

London, England, UK

Residence:

Dates:

1928 - 1930

Place:

Sydney, New South Wales

Residence:

Dates:

c. 1921 - 1925

Place:

San Francisco, CA, USA

Residence:

Dates:

1912 - 1921

Place:

London, England, UK

Biographer:

Kerr, Joan

Source of info:

Black and white artists

Date written:

Date:

c. 1999 - 2003

Date modified:

Date:

2007

Reference:

Title:

'A Sullen Silence: Frank Weitzel, Modernist (1905-1932)'

Year:

2005

Author:

Ross, Gail

Published:

Art New Zealand, Number 116, (Spring), Auckland

Reference:

Title:

Masterpieces of Australian printmaking

Year:

1987

Author:

Sheding, Stephen

Published:

Paddington, New South Wales: Josef Lebovic Gallery, ed. Josef Lebovic, p 152

Reference:

Title:

Fifty years of Australian printmaking: Sydney Long to Eric Thake

Year:

1988

Author:

Lebovic, Josef and Warner, Sandra

Published:

Paddington, New South Wales: Josef Lebovic Gallery

Reference:

Title:

20th Anniversary Exhibition Collectors' List No.63

Year:

1997

Author:

Lebovic, Josef

Published:

Paddington, New South Wales: Josef Lebovic Gallery, cat.140

Reference:

Title:

'Weitzel, Hedwig 1900 - 1971'

Year:

1900-04-07

Author:

Taylor, Kerry

Published:

Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, website updated 7 April 2006

Artist's URL:

Value:

http://www.dnzb.govt.nz/

Summary:

Early 20th century New Zealand printmaker, sculptor and decorative artist who lived in Sydney during the late 1920s and early 1930s.

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