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Jan Senbergs
Born
Jānis Šēnbergs

1939
Dobell Prize (1995)
  • Kedumba Drawing Prize (1991)
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    Jan Senbergs

    AM (Latvian: Jānis Šēnbergs; 1939–2024) is an Australian artist and printmaker of Latvian
    origin.

    Life and work

    Senbergs was born in 1939 in Latvia.

    silkscreen printer once he left school at 15. The skills he learnt as an apprentice were defining in the beginning of his career in the 1960s and 1970s, when he became, arguably, one of the best silkscreen printmakers in Australia.[2][3] Senbergs moved on from screen printing to the industrial cityscapes and ports of Melbourne, the mined landscapes of Tasmania and the Antarctic wilderness.[4]

    Spanning his 50-plus year career he has covered figuration, surrealism, expressionism and abstraction in his prints, paintings and drawings.

    Australia Council from 1984 to 1987, Trustee of the National Gallery of Victoria from 1984 to 1989 and in 1989 he was appointed the Visiting Professor – Chair of Australian Studies at Harvard University, Boston.[6]

    Senbergs died in February 2024.[1]

    Exhibitions

    Senbergs started exhibiting in the early 1960s in

    Ballarat Fine Art Gallery in 2006, which went on to tour regional Australia in 2007, and Jan Senbergs: From Screenprinter to Painter at the Art Gallery of New South Wales
    in 2008.

    Senbergs has also exhibited considerably overseas, starting early on in his career with Young Australian Painters in 1965 in

    São Paulo Biennial in Brazil in 1973. He held a solo show at the Australian Print Workshop[8] in Melbourne and featured in the Blue Chip XV: The Collectors’ Exhibition at Niagara Galleries and Mixtape 1980s: Appropriation, Subculture, Critical Style at the National Gallery of Victoria in 2013.[9] In 2016, he was exhibited in Jan Senbergs: Observation - Imagination at the National Gallery of Victoria.[10]

    Collections

    Senbergs' work is featured in prominent galleries and museums across Australia as well as overseas. He is featured in major state galleries such as

    Houston, Texas, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the National Gallery of Art and Washington DC, as well as numerous regional, university, college, corporate and private collections throughout Australia and the US.[13]

    Awards

    Senbergs has been the recipient of numerous awards and prizes, including the

    Dobell Prize from the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 1995[14][15] and the Kedumba Drawing Prize in 1991. He received an Honorary Award in the Doctor of Arts Honoris Causa from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Melbourne and was the recipient of the Helena Rubenstein Travelling Art Scholarship in 1966. In 2003 he was made a Member of the Order of Australia in recognition of his "service to the Australian visual arts as a painter whose work has been exhibited in, and forms part of, national and international galleries and collections".[16]

    References

    1. ^ a b "Vale Jan Senbergs". www.artshub.com.au. 26 February 2024. Retrieved 27 February 2024.
    2. ISBN 0500203016
      .
    3. ISBN 0522851827
      .
    4. ^ "Jan Senbergs: From Screenprinter to Painter". Art Gallery of New South Wales. Retrieved 30 August 2013.
    5. ^ McDonald, John (April–June 2008). "Jan Senbergs: Neither Firebrand nor Interior Decorator" (PDF). Art Collector (44): 139–143. Retrieved 30 August 2013.
    6. ^ "Jan Senbergs". Wagner Art Gallery. Retrieved 15 September 2022.
    7. ISBN 1875247157
    8. ISBN 0642541558
    9. ISBN 0522851827
      .
    10. ^ McDonald, John (13 May 2016). "Jan Senbergs and the art of observation". The SydneyMorning Herald. Retrieved 8 September 2017.
    11. ISBN 0731389123
    12. ISBN 9057033917
    13. ^ "Design and Art Australia Online (DAAO)".
    14. ISBN 0-7347-6376-X
    15. ISBN 9781741740868
    16. ^ "Jan Feliks Senbergs". Australian Honours Search Facility, Dept of Prime Minister and Cabinet. Retrieved 25 July 2020.

    External links

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