Yosl Bergner 'The Wedding' pop and university collections

and university collections

the sky stewing with distant rapture

'Study for Gorky's Pilgrim From 'Lower Depths''

'Eucalyptus Beauty' is a sumptuous ode to gum tree blossoms

Despite railway fettling consuming most of his time

Yosl Bergner 'The Wedding' pop and university collectionsYosl Bergner is one of Australias most important artists. Born in Austria and raised in Poland, he and his family immigrated to Australia in 1937 to escape anti semitism. In Melbourne, Bergner attended the National Art School and befriended the Heide circle, who included Sidney Nolan, Albert Tucker and John Perceval. It was alongside Noel Coulihan and Vic OConnor however, that Bergner made his indeminable mark. Self described as a social humanist,