Susanne Gether collection of negatives, photographs, and drawing, 1890-1911
- Bib ID:
- 7417125
- Format:
- Picture
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Description:
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- 1890-1911
- 1 drawing : pencil ; 41.1 x 57.6 cm
- 41 photographs : black and white ; 16.2 x 21.4 cm or smaller
- 1 negative : glass, black and white ; 8.2 x 10.7 cm
- 28 negatives : acetate, black and white ; 9.6 x 9.1 cm or smaller
- 53 negatives : nitrate, black and white ; 9.6 x 9 cm or smaller
- Summary:
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Collection of 1 technical drawing of Susanne Gether's workshop in Sydney, and 123 photographs of Susanne Gether, friends, and her and her students' woodcarvings in her workshop in Dunedin, New Zealand, and Sydney, New South Wales, from 1890 to 1911.--Information from acquisitions documentation.
- Biography/History:
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Born in Neksø (Bornholm, Denmark) in 1857, Susanne Vilhelmine Gether studied woodcarving in Switzerland, and in Denmark she acquired further skills and worked in woodcarving, leatherwork and pyrography (pokerwork). In 1890 she traveled with her music teacher friend Kate Busck to New Zealand, and subsequently to Sydney, New South Wales between 1899 and 1911. She worked as a woodcarver, and taught and held classes in both countries. She was a member of the Society of Arts and Crafts of New South Wales. Gether left Australia in 1911 and spent six years in South Africa before returning to Denmark. Gether died in 1942, in Hillerød (North Zealand, Denmark).
- Notes:
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- Title from acquisitions documentation.
- Also available online https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-461147999
- Source of Acquisition:
- Donated by Elsebeth Hansen, Denmark, 2017.
- Has Sub-series:
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- Has subcollection: Susanne Gether collection of photographs, and drawing, 1890-1911
- Has subcollection: Susanne Gether collection of negatives, 1890-1911
- Has subcollection: Susanne Gether collection of nitrate negatives, 1890-1911
- Subject:
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- Gether, Susanne, 1857-1942 -- Travel -- Photographs
- Gether, Susanne, 1857-1942 -- Portraits
- Danes -- New Zealand -- Photographs
- Danes -- Australia -- Photographs
- Arts and crafts movement -- Photographs
- Wood-carvers -- Denmark -- Photographs
- Wood-carvers -- New Zealand -- Photographs
- Wood-carvers -- New South Wales -- Sydney -- Photographs
- Wood-carving -- Photographs
- Wood sculpture -- Photographs
- Furniture -- Photographs
- New Zealand -- Photographs
- New South Wales -- Photographs
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- Copyright restrictions may apply.
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Creator Date of Death is Before 1955
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Artistic
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1942
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1911
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