German painter and professional photographer working as a painter in Sandhurst and Castlemaine and then Ballarat by 1863. He showed Sunday Creek, near Seymour in the fourth Annual Exhibition of Fine Arts at Melbourne in 1864. It was described by the Argus critic as 'stiff and chalky’. Two paintings by Tensfeld, Lal Lal Falls and Terriers Catching Rats , were exhibited by Richard Geilhofer for sale at the 1863 Ballarat Mechanics Institute Exhibition. Tensfeld’s oil painting Main Street, Daylesford (1862, p.c.) appears to have been painted over or from a photograph. Tensfeld is listed by Sandy Barrie as working as a photographer in Daylesford in 1862 and Seymour in 1864 before establishing a Melbourne studio Freyberger & Tensfeld at 92 Bourke Street, East Melbourne in 1865, in partnership with H. Freyberger. Newspaper references in Ballarat 1863 indicate Tensfeld painted over portraits for Solomon and Bardwell studio Tensfeld departed for New Zealand 1882 who produced an album of views and may be an American painter.
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- Date written:
- 1992
- Last updated:
- 2021
