Wetzel

  • Artist (Painter)
Painter, is known only as the artist of the unlocated Portrait of Mr Menge.
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painter, is known only as the artist of the unlocated Portrait of Mr Menge, who was an eccentric geologist who lived in a cave near Rowland’s Flat in the Barossa Valley, South Australia, called the area New Silesia and proposed that a university be established there. Wetzel exhibited his portrait of Menge at the 1848 Adelaide Exhibition of Colonial Artists.

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Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1992
Last updated:
2011

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