Namatjira outside the government house in Sydney, 1947
Movement/Style: Watercolour landscape associated with the Hermannsburg School
Country: Australia
Years: 1902 – 1959
Well, who was he?
Albert Namatjira (1902 – 1959) was a monumental figure within Australian art. Working in “European”-style watercolours as an Indigenous Australian Arrernte man, he painted the Central Australian landscape in ways that revolutionized ideas of what Indigenous Australian artists were capable of. His story is very connected to the fraught relationship between white Australia and Indigenous Australia.