Yosl Bergner 'The Message, from The Kimberley Album' cool tones Endowed with the rich inner-life

Endowed with the rich inner-life of any person - plus centuries of symbolism - Auguste’s work evokes the draw humans feel towards animals

signed with initials and dated lower right: PRAHRAN MH 15/9/85

composing a visual melody that must be seen to be heard

- An edition of this work is represented at the National Gallery of Australia

Image Size: 42 x 31 cm

Yosl Bergner 'The Message, from The Kimberley Album' cool tones Endowed with the rich inner-lifeThe story behind this work is stranger than fiction. It begins in 1933 when Yiddish poet, playwright, essayist and activist Melech Ravitch (a pseudonym for Zekharye Khone Bergner) left Europe in search of a new home for Europes increasingly threatened Jewish population. He arrived in Australia with the fantasy that among the Kimberleys lied the Promised Land for his people. Decades later his son, the acclaimed artist Yosl Bergner, memorialised this