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They showed work by nationally prominent artists as well as artists associated with the [[Hunter Region]] of [[New South Wales]], including still-life painter [[Margaret Olley]] (1923-2011), landscapist [[Shay Docking]] (1928-1998), mid-century modernist painter and textile designer Mary Beeston (b. 1917), [[naïve art]]ist Virginia Geyl (b. Holland 1917- d.1999) and the surrealist/religious painter Rona Scott, who created a mural for the film [[Tommy (1975 film)|Tommy]] when it came to Australia.<ref name="avb" /> The couple dissolved their partnership in the gallery in 1973.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1973-05-25 |title=Private Advertisements |pages=1917 |work=Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article220179514 |access-date=2022-05-03}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=1973-06-30 |title=Index page |pages=iii |work=Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article220180925 |access-date=2022-05-03}}</ref> The Gallery closed in 1998.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Von Bertouch Galleres. (1962 – 1998) · Exhibition History · Australian Prints + Printmaking |url=https://www.printsandprintmaking.gov.au/galleries/768/exhibitions/history/?num_results=100 |access-date=2022-05-03 |website=www.printsandprintmaking.gov.au}}</ref>
They showed work by nationally prominent artists as well as artists associated with the [[Hunter Region]] of [[New South Wales]], including still-life painter [[Margaret Olley]] (1923-2011), landscapist [[Shay Docking]] (1928-1998), mid-century modernist painter and textile designer Mary Beeston (b. 1917), [[naïve art]]ist Virginia Geyl (b. Holland 1917- d.1999) and the surrealist/religious painter Rona Scott, who created a mural for the film [[Tommy (1975 film)|Tommy]] when it came to Australia.<ref name="avb" /> The couple dissolved their partnership in the gallery in 1973.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1973-05-25 |title=Private Advertisements |pages=1917 |work=Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article220179514 |access-date=2022-05-03}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=1973-06-30 |title=Index page |pages=iii |work=Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article220180925 |access-date=2022-05-03}}</ref> The Gallery closed in 1998.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Von Bertouch Galleres. (1962 – 1998) · Exhibition History · Australian Prints + Printmaking |url=https://www.printsandprintmaking.gov.au/galleries/768/exhibitions/history/?num_results=100 |access-date=2022-05-03 |website=www.printsandprintmaking.gov.au}}</ref>

''The Bulletin'' in 1974 described Von Bertouch Galleries as "one of the most famous in Australia... It's [sic] director Anne Von Bertouch has made a great contribution to the life of [Newcastle] during the 11 years of the gallery's existence," and quoted her sentiments about selling art;<blockquote>"I think the gallery has integrity. That is what I have worked hardest to achieve. I have never encouraged the buyer who is only interested in investment. In fact I won't sell to them. I tell them to go and buy real estate. I don't want them to have pictures if they aren't going to appreciate them. It's an anti-art thing...I have never had contracts or ties with any of the artists. Sometimes I've helped people but that is just natural. Artists must create for the sake of creating. They mustn't attempt to please. That can destroy the living quality of the painting. It will always have its own intrinsic value. Commercial gain is really incidental."<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Hersey |first=April |last2=Lamotte |first2=Craig |last3=McPhedran |first3=Don |date=21 September 1974 |title=32-Page Special Lift-Out Survey : Art In Australia : Other Centres : There's more to it than money |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1340003058 |journal=The Bulletin |volume=96 |pages=48, 50}}</ref></blockquote>

=== Exhibitions at Von Bertouch Galleries ===
=== Exhibitions at Von Bertouch Galleries ===
* 1963, February: First exhibition. Works by artists born or resident in Newcastle: Tom Gleghorn, Ross Morrow, [[Jon Molvig]], William Rose, [[John Olsen (Australian artist)|John Olson]], [[Paul Beadle]], [[John Passmore (artist)|John Passmore]] and [[William Dobell]]<ref name=":5" />
* 1963, February: First exhibition. Works by artists born or resident in Newcastle: Tom Gleghorn, Ross Morrow, [[Jon Molvig]], William Rose, [[John Olsen (Australian artist)|John Olson]], [[Paul Beadle]], [[John Passmore (artist)|John Passmore]] and [[William Dobell]]<ref name=":5" />
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* 1972, from 1 March: Memory paintings of days on the track
* 1972, from 1 March: Memory paintings of days on the track
* 1973, 3 August – 27 August: [[Ray Crooke]]
* 1973, 3 August – 27 August: [[Ray Crooke]]
* 1973, October: Rae Richards<ref>{{Cite journal |date=27 October 1973 |title=Sundry shows : Art : Newcastle |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1335336870 |journal=The Bulletin |volume=95 |issue=4877 |pages=61}}</ref>
* 1973, November – December: ''Collectors' Choice'': painting, graphics, sculpture, pottery and jewellery. Coburn, Cassab, Crooke. James, Hinder, Gleghorn, Kmit and others.
* 1973, November – December: ''Collectors' Choice'': painting, graphics, sculpture, pottery and jewellery. Coburn, Cassab, Crooke. James, Hinder, Gleghorn, Kmit and others.
* 1973, to 24 December: Lillian Sutherland, ''Recent Paintings from Lighting Ridge''<ref>{{Cite journal |date=15 December 1973 |title=Sundry Shows : Art : Newcastle |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1335338557 |journal=The Bulletin |volume=96 |issue=4884 |pages=53}}</ref>
* 1973, to 24 December: Lillian Sutherland, ''Recent Paintings from Lighting Ridge''<ref>{{Cite journal |date=15 December 1973 |title=Sundry Shows : Art : Newcastle |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1335338557 |journal=The Bulletin |volume=96 |issue=4884 |pages=53}}</ref>

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Anne Von Bertouch

Anne Von Bertouch OAM (1915–2003) was an Australian art dealer, author, environmentalist and director of the Von Bertouch Galleries in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia believed to be the first commercial gallery outside a capital city in Australia.[1]

Biography

Born Anne Catherine, to parents Jean (née Duff) and George Whittle on 29 June 1915 in Eastwood, New South Wales,[2] she was educated at Sydney Girls High School and Armidale Teachers College, and married Roger Von Bertouch in 1939. In 1941 she was at the organiser of a National Fitness Camp for girls at Broken Bay, New South Wales.[3] She and Roger moved to Tasmania where they taught and she studied at Hobart Technical College. In 1942 she performed modern interpretive dance at a Town Hall concert in Hobart organised by the Australian Broadcasting Commission Patriotic Committee as a fundraiser on Allies' Appeal Day.[4][5] She danced also in Hobart's Opera And Ballet Festival for International Week in 1945.[6][7] Intending to develop land and to pusrue their artistic interests they moved to Mungo Brush in the Myall Lakes in N.S.W. in 1951[8][9] or 1954,[10] living a subsistence existence from prawn fishing and trading their home-grown produce,[11][12] and were appointed Honorary Rangers there in 1955 under the Wild Flowers and Native Plants Protection Act.[13] Anne's 1959 semi-autobiographical documentary novel Februrary Dark gives an account of their time there.[14][15] Finding their block unviable, they moved to Newcastle where the renovated a terrace house.[10]

In 1987 von Bertouch joined the 1988 Australian Bicentennial First Fleet reenactment, sailing from Portsmouth in May 1987 and arriving at Port Jackson on Australia Day.[16]

Von Bertouch Galleries

Anne and Roger von Bertouch opened the von Bertouch Galleries at 61 Laman Street in Newcastle on 9 February 1963[17][18] which, as noted by The Bulletin magazine, was close to William Dobell's birthplace and the Newcastle Art Gallery.[10] In 1969 they acquired a row of terrace houses opposite (surrounding 50 Laman St), threatened with demolition, and converted them to house the gallery.[11]

They showed work by nationally prominent artists as well as artists associated with the Hunter Region of New South Wales, including still-life painter Margaret Olley (1923-2011), landscapist Shay Docking (1928-1998), mid-century modernist painter and textile designer Mary Beeston (b. 1917), naïve artist Virginia Geyl (b. Holland 1917- d.1999) and the surrealist/religious painter Rona Scott, who created a mural for the film Tommy when it came to Australia.[8] The couple dissolved their partnership in the gallery in 1973.[19][20] The Gallery closed in 1998.[21]

The Bulletin in 1974 described Von Bertouch Galleries as "one of the most famous in Australia... It's [sic] director Anne Von Bertouch has made a great contribution to the life of [Newcastle] during the 11 years of the gallery's existence," and quoted her sentiments about selling art;

"I think the gallery has integrity. That is what I have worked hardest to achieve. I have never encouraged the buyer who is only interested in investment. In fact I won't sell to them. I tell them to go and buy real estate. I don't want them to have pictures if they aren't going to appreciate them. It's an anti-art thing...I have never had contracts or ties with any of the artists. Sometimes I've helped people but that is just natural. Artists must create for the sake of creating. They mustn't attempt to please. That can destroy the living quality of the painting. It will always have its own intrinsic value. Commercial gain is really incidental."[22]

Exhibitions at Von Bertouch Galleries

  • 1963, February: First exhibition. Works by artists born or resident in Newcastle: Tom Gleghorn, Ross Morrow, Jon Molvig, William Rose, John Olson, Paul Beadle, John Passmore and William Dobell[10]
  • 1963: Shay Docking
  • 1963, August-September: Louis James[23][24][25]
  • 1963, 15 November – 3 December: Collectors' choice[26]
  • 1963: Tom Gleghorn
  • 1964, from 1 March: Homer Irvine
  • 1964, ro 28 July: Owen Shaw[27]
  • 1964, 25 September – 13 October: William Peascod[28]
  • 1964, to 17 November: Geoffrey Hooper paintings. Studio pottery by Ivan Englund and Carl McConnell[29]
  • 1964, to 24 December: Fabrics and Jewellery[30]
  • 1965: Homer Irvine[31]
  • 1967, 10 February – 28 February: Shay Docking
  • 1967, 3 March – 21 March: John Coburn
  • 1967, 24 March – 4 April: Homer Irvine
  • 1967, 7 – 25 April: Michael Kitching
  • 1967, October: David Boyd [32]
  • 1968, from 22 March: Frank Hinder[33]
  • 1969, May: Desiderius Orban[34]
  • 1969, August: Norman Lindsay[35]
  • 1970, 6 – 23 March: Laurence Hope
  • 1970, April: Judy Cassab[36]
  • 1970, June: Virginia Geyl[37]
  • 1971 Shay Docking
  • 1972, from 1 March: Memory paintings of days on the track
  • 1973, 3 August – 27 August: Ray Crooke
  • 1973, October: Rae Richards[38]
  • 1973, November – December: Collectors' Choice: painting, graphics, sculpture, pottery and jewellery. Coburn, Cassab, Crooke. James, Hinder, Gleghorn, Kmit and others.
  • 1973, to 24 December: Lillian Sutherland, Recent Paintings from Lighting Ridge[39]
  • 1980 : Shay Docking
  • 1981, 10 April – 26 April: Lloyd Rees; And Yet Australia Calls You Back Again
  • 1983, 1 July – 24 July: Blue Days on the Derwent. Tasmanian Exhibition by Lloyd Rees.
  • 1985, 15 March – 7 April: Lloyd Rees - Sandy Bay Set
  • 1987, 3 – 26 April: Lloyd Rees: Paintings and Graphics
  • 1991, 12 – 28 July: David Middlebrook : paintings and wood blocks
  • 1991, 2 – 25 August: Jamie Boyd : paintings, pastels, graphics.
  • 1991, 30 August – 15 September: Graphics by the famous : etchings, lithographs, screenprints
  • 1992, 28 February – 22 March: David Preston : hand coloured linocuts
  • 1992, 24 April – 17 May: Madeleine Winch : paintings
  • 1993, 19 March 1993 – 12 April: Arthur Boyd; Paintings, Collographs, etchings

Awards

Author

Her 1959 novel February Dark (runner-up in The Sydney Morning Herald Literary Award) was based on her experience of life in Myall Lakes. It was reissued by Hunniford's Lane Press in 1982. [14] Her other published works include The Ride Home and a 1000-copy limited-edition monograph on sculptor Guy Boyd,[8] described by Canberra Times reviewer Glenda Alexander as a "delightful story, if touched with the hint of sentimentality which the Boyds always seem to attract."[43]

Publications

  • Bertouch, Anne (1959). February Dark. London: Constable. OCLC 1069851970.[9][15]
  • Von Bertouch, Anne (1983). The ride home. Newcastle, N.S.W.: Hunniford's Lane Press. ISBN 978-0-9592824-1-2. OCLC 27623615.
  • Golden Age Fine Art Gallery; Von Bertouch, Anne; Boyd, Guy; Boyd, Phyllis (1985). Guy Boyd survey exhibition: bronze sculpture. Ballarat: The Gallery. OCLC 221487561.
  • Boyd, Guy Martin; Bertouch, Anne von; Hutchings, Patrick; Von Bertouch, Anne (1986). Guy Boyd. Melbourne: Lansdowne. OCLC 781998112.[43]
  • Von Bertouch, Anne; Von Bertouch Galleries (1990). What was it before it was a gallery?. Newcastle, N.S.W.: Hunniford's Lane Press. ISBN 978-0-9592824-2-9. OCLC 220744993.
  • Von Bertouch, Anne (1991). The voyage out: the First Fleet re-enactment. Newcastle, N.S.W.: Hunnifords Lane Press. ISBN 978-0-9592824-3-6. OCLC 26579510.
  • Germaine, Max; Bertouch, Anne von (1991). A dictionary of women artists of Australia (in Undetermined). ISBN 978-976-8097-13-2. OCLC 1056680264.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)

Archival resources

  • National Library of Australia : [Biographical cuttings on Anne von Bertouch, author, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals], Bib ID: 2085354
  • National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection : Papers of Anne von Bertouch, circa 1960-circa 1999 [manuscript], c. 1960 - c. 1999, MS Acc03.266
  • Newcastle Region Library : Diary, correspondence and memorabilia [manuscript], 1975 - 1978, Call number: 910.4/VON; Anne Von Bertouch travel documents and diaries [manuscript][1]

Death

Anne Von Bertouch died on 26 April 2003.[8][44]

References

  1. ^ "Famous Newcastle gallery sold for the fourth time". Australian Broadcasting Corporation 4 July 2015. Retrieved 4 July 2015.
  2. ^ Obituaries Australia | Retrieved 18 October 2018
  3. ^ Dennis, Charlotte (2 June 1941). "Of Interest To Women". Launceston Examiner. p. 6. Retrieved 3 May 2022.
  4. ^ "Enjoyable Concert : Allies Appeal Aided". The Mercury. Hobart. 3 August 1942. p. 4. Retrieved 3 May 2022.
  5. ^ "ABC Artists Aid Allies' Day Appeal". The Mercury. Hobart. 19 July 1943. p. 4. Retrieved 3 May 2022.
  6. ^ "Opera And Ballet Festival For International Week". Mercury. Hobart. 11 October 1945. p. 7. Retrieved 3 May 2022.
  7. ^ "Opera And Ballet Festival". Mercury. 13 October 1945. p. 5. Retrieved 3 May 2022.
  8. ^ a b c d e "Arts supporter one of Newcastle's favourite daughters". Sydney Morning Herald. 2 May 2003. Retrieved 4 July 2015.
  9. ^ a b "The Snake Bites of Mungo Brush". Nota. 1 December 1979. p. 6. Retrieved 3 May 2022.
  10. ^ a b c d "National Note Book : For Art's Sake". The Bulletin. 85 (4329): 4. 2 February 1963.
  11. ^ a b "Winner of the 1987 Newton-John Award, Mrs Anne Von Bertouch, the University of Newcastle, Australia - 1988". Living Histories. Retrieved 3 May 2022.
  12. ^ "Tamboy immortalised". Nota. 21 August 1997. Retrieved 3 May 2022.
  13. ^ "Wild Flowers and Native Plants Protection Act, 1927-1945". Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales. 7 January 1955. Retrieved 3 May 2022.
  14. ^ a b "February Dark". Nota. 1 July 1983. p. 3. Retrieved 3 May 2022.
  15. ^ a b "Tamboy immortalised". Nota. 21 August 1997. p. 12. Retrieved 3 May 2022.
  16. ^ "Winner of the 1987 Newton-John Award, Mrs Anne Von Bertouch, the University of Newcastle, Australia - 1988". Living Histories. Retrieved 3 May 2022.
  17. ^ Carr, Ashley S. (2006). The Life and Work of Anne Von Bertouch. Newcastle, NSW: University of Newcastle. p. 59.
  18. ^ Von Bertouch, Anne; Von Bertouch Galleries (1990). What was it before it was a gallery?. Newcastle, N.S.W.: Hunniford's Lane Press. ISBN 978-0-9592824-2-9. OCLC 220744993.
  19. ^ "Private Advertisements". Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales. 25 May 1973. p. 1917. Retrieved 3 May 2022.
  20. ^ "Index page". Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales. 30 June 1973. pp. iii. Retrieved 3 May 2022.
  21. ^ "Von Bertouch Galleres. (1962 – 1998) · Exhibition History · Australian Prints + Printmaking". www.printsandprintmaking.gov.au. Retrieved 3 May 2022.
  22. ^ Hersey, April; Lamotte, Craig; McPhedran, Don (21 September 1974). "32-Page Special Lift-Out Survey : Art In Australia : Other Centres : There's more to it than money". The Bulletin. 96: 48, 50.
  23. ^ "National Notebook : Safe Deposit". The bulletin. 85 (4369): 3. 9 November 1963.
  24. ^ "Sundry Shows : Art". The Bulletin. 86 (4413): 10. 19 September 1964.
  25. ^ Henshaw, John (12 September 1964). "Reviews : Art : The Fashion in Abstracts. Paintings in the art-world merry-go-round". The Bulletin. 86 (4412): 46.
  26. ^ "Sundry Shows : Art". The Bulletin. 86 (4423): 52. 28 November 1964.
  27. ^ "Sundry Sows : Art". The Bulletin. 86 (4405): 10. 25 July 1964.
  28. ^ "Sundry Shows : Art". The Bulletin. 86 (4414): 10. 26 September 1964.
  29. ^ "Sundry Shows : Art". The Bulletin. 86 (4420): 3. 7 November 1964.
  30. ^ "Sundry Shows : Art". The Bulletin. 86 (4426): 51. 19 December 1964.
  31. ^ Rolfe, Patricia (8 May 1965). "Depression Nostalgia". The Bulletin. 87 (4445): 45.
  32. ^ Scholfield, R. J. (21 October 1967). "Arts And Entertainment : Going Into Smoke". The Bulletin. 89 (4572): 86–88.
  33. ^ Lynn, Elwyn (16 March 1968). "Art : Low powered". The Bulletin. 89 (4593): 69–70.
  34. ^ Lynn, Elwyn (17 May 1969). "Painting and Sculpture : Newcastle comes in from the fringe with a major event". The Bulletin. 91 (4653): 46.
  35. ^ Hall, Sandra (30 August 1969). "Norman Lindsay: preparing his lifetime for the National Trust". The Bulletin. 91 (4668): 45–47.
  36. ^ Lyn, Elwyn (18 April 1970). "Painting : Uncertainty of life". The Bulletin. 92 (4700): 52.
  37. ^ Lynn, Elwyn (13 June 1970). "Art : Various anxieties". The Bulletin. 92 (4708): 48–9.
  38. ^ "Sundry shows : Art : Newcastle". The Bulletin. 95 (4877): 61. 27 October 1973.
  39. ^ "Sundry Shows : Art : Newcastle". The Bulletin. 96 (4884): 53. 15 December 1973.
  40. ^ "Queen's Birthday 1979 Honours". Commonwealth of Australia Gazette. Special. 16 June 1979. p. 7. Retrieved 3 May 2022.
  41. ^ Melbourne, National Foundation for Australian Women and The University of. "von Bertouch, Anne Catherine - Woman - The Australian Women's Register". www.womenaustralia.info. Retrieved 3 May 2022.
  42. ^ Carr, Ashley S; University of Newcastle (N.S.W.). School of Humanities and Social Sciences (2006), The life and work of Anne Von Bertouch (1915-2003) : reflections on history, memory and place, 2006, retrieved 3 May 2022
  43. ^ a b Alexander, Glenda (29 May 1976). "Worked in bronze". Canberra Times. Retrieved 3 May 2022.
  44. ^ Mitzevich, Nick (September 2003), "Anne von Bertouch, 1915-2003 [Obituary.]", Art Monthly Australia (163): 27, ISSN 1033-4025


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