Title

Menkhorst, Robert.

Author

Butler, Roger.

Source

[Not applicable]

Publication date

1981

Type

Biography

Language

English

Country of context

Australia

Full text

Robert Menkhorst

Born in Windsor, Victoria, in 1916, Robert Miller studied commercial art at the Melbourne Technical College under Napier Waller and John Rowell. He produced a number of linocuts in the early 1940s under the name Menkhorst (his mother’s maiden name). These included program covers for the New Theatre and linocuts for A Comment between 1942 and 1944. He worked for many years as a graphic designer, and is known chiefly for his traditional watercolours.

© Roger Butler, 1981.

Published in Melbourne Woodcuts & Linocuts of the 1920s & 1930s, exhibition catalogue, Ballarat: Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, 1981.