Design and Art Australia Online

Melbourne painter and contemporary of Boyd and Perceval and active member of Contemporary Art Society with Noel Counihan and Vic O'Connor. Bergner's paintings were among the 1st to address the specific plight of Indigenous Australians and later work took inspiration from the works of German writer Franz Kafka. In Tel Aviv, a member of a circle of artists centred in the popular Cafe Kassit, where he painted a large mural.