essay
The heritage of Namatjira and the Hermannsburg painters
Heritage of Namatjira : the watercolourists of central Australia • Port Melbourne, Victoria, Australia • Published In 1992 • Pages: 1-21 , [3] of plates
By: Megaw, J. V. S. (John Vincent Stanley), Megaw, Madeline Ruth.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In the 1930s Albert Namatjira (1902-1959) adapted the use of watercolors to native Aranda painting by using the techniques he had learned from the Victorian watercolor painter Rex Battarbee. Namatjira's success led to the development of a 'school' of watercolor artists among the Aranda. This school, generally referred to as the Hermannsburg movement, is centered in the western Aranda township of NTARIA (or NTHAREYE), the aboriginal name for the site of the former Lutheran Mission at Hermannsburg. This article charts the evolution of the movement and assesses its place in the world of White institutions. Much of the work deals with biographical information on Albert Namatjira and his rise to fame, but there is also some data on other Native artists and their styles of painting.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Life history materials
- Representative art
- Missions
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Aranda
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1996
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Oceania
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Australia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Antiquarian
- Historian
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1994
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- ca. 1930-1960
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Hermannsburg, Northern Territory, Australia
- NotesAdditional notes
- J. V. S. Megaw and M. Ruth Megaw
- Not all of the plates mentioned in the text have been included
- Bibliographical references are in document number 47
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Aranda (Australian people)