Title

Margaret Michaelis: Love, loss and photography.

Venues

National Gallery Of Australia (7 May 2005 – 14 August 2005)

Date

(2005)

Summary

Single-artist exhibition. Located: Australia (ACT). Photographs

Curator

Helen Ennis

Documentation

Book

Country of context

Australia

Abstract

This is an exhibition that has at its heart a story about the life and work of Margaret Michaelis and some of the momentous events of the 20th-century. Michaelis's professional career in Vienna, Berlin and Barcelona was shaped by the rise of fascism and the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. In 1939 Michaelis fled from Europe and settled in Sydney where she excelled in the areas of portraiture and dance photography.

The biographical dimension of the narrative is explored through the use of Margaret Michaelis’s personal photographs. These modest images speak eloquently of such matters as home, love, loss, exile and redemption.

Guest curator Helen Ennis is a Senior Lecturer at the Australian National University, School of Art. [Gallery media, 2005].