Artist: Jacob Karumapuli Stengle | Title: The Reading of the Document | Year: 2017 | Medium: oil on canvas | Dimensions: 138 x 102 cm
PRICE
Price available upon request. Please contact Adrian at adrian@newsteadart.com for details.
PROVENANCE
Direct from artist, SA, Australia
Cooee Art, NSW, Australia
ARTWORK STORY
In November 1938, after the Nazis in Germany torched synagogues, and vandalized Jewish homes, schools and businesses killing close to 100 Jews, the first person to lead a protest march in the entire world was Yorta Yorta Aboriginal activist William Cooper.
In this imaginative work, William Cooper is depicted reading the document presented to the German consulate in Melbourne and heard by an audience of Jewish people and a group of his tribesman. The the pink and grey cockatoo (galah), chosen to provide a geographical context, hears his call to action and spreads the word.
Though not welcomed at the time, William Cooper's letter was finally accepted by the German consul-general 70 years after the event, in 2012.
Artist Profile
COMMUNITY/REGION
Coorong, SA
LANGUAGE
Tanganikald
BIOGRAPHY
Born in 1954 to a Ngurrindjeri woman of the Tangani people from the Coorong in South Australia, and a Czechoslovakian father from Prague, Jacob Stengle was taken from his mother when 3 years old and became part of South Australia's 'Stolen Generation'. He was placed in the United Aborigines Mission’s Colebrook Home, in Eden Hills, SA.
Having shown a great talent for visual art from an early age he immersed himself in it as a means of escaping the harsh realities of life under the guidance of one of the superintendents at the home, who was a practicing oil painter. Over the following 45 years Jacob supported himself through painting. A chance meeting with the London-born painter of Dreaming stories , Ainslie Roberts, began a lifelong friendship through which Jacob met a circle of practicing artists while he lived as an itinerant drifter.
His works have been exhibited in 5 solo exhibitions since 1985 and 4 group shows since 2009, principally through the Tandanya Aboriginal Cultural Institute, Adelaide and during this time he has been a finalist in the National Aboriginal Art Award and the National Heritage Art Award. Jacob’s works are held in the permanent collections of Parliament House, Canberra, the South Australian Museum, Flinders University Gallery, Australian National Maritime Museum, and The National Gallery of Australia, Holmes a Court collection and the Australian Embassy in South Korea.
© Adrian Newstead
PRICE
Price available upon request. Please contact Adrian at adrian@newsteadart.com for details.
PROVENANCE
Direct from artist, SA, Australia
Cooee Art, NSW, Australia
ARTWORK STORY
In November 1938, after the Nazis in Germany torched synagogues, and vandalized Jewish homes, schools and businesses killing close to 100 Jews, the first person to lead a protest march in the entire world was Yorta Yorta Aboriginal activist William Cooper.
In this imaginative work, William Cooper is depicted reading the document presented to the German consulate in Melbourne and heard by an audience of Jewish people and a group of his tribesman. The the pink and grey cockatoo (galah), chosen to provide a geographical context, hears his call to action and spreads the word.
Though not welcomed at the time, William Cooper's letter was finally accepted by the German consul-general 70 years after the event, in 2012.
Artist Profile
COMMUNITY/REGION
Coorong, SA
LANGUAGE
Tanganikald
BIOGRAPHY
Born in 1954 to a Ngurrindjeri woman of the Tangani people from the Coorong in South Australia, and a Czechoslovakian father from Prague, Jacob Stengle was taken from his mother when 3 years old and became part of South Australia's 'Stolen Generation'. He was placed in the United Aborigines Mission’s Colebrook Home, in Eden Hills, SA.
Having shown a great talent for visual art from an early age he immersed himself in it as a means of escaping the harsh realities of life under the guidance of one of the superintendents at the home, who was a practicing oil painter. Over the following 45 years Jacob supported himself through painting. A chance meeting with the London-born painter of Dreaming stories , Ainslie Roberts, began a lifelong friendship through which Jacob met a circle of practicing artists while he lived as an itinerant drifter.
His works have been exhibited in 5 solo exhibitions since 1985 and 4 group shows since 2009, principally through the Tandanya Aboriginal Cultural Institute, Adelaide and during this time he has been a finalist in the National Aboriginal Art Award and the National Heritage Art Award. Jacob’s works are held in the permanent collections of Parliament House, Canberra, the South Australian Museum, Flinders University Gallery, Australian National Maritime Museum, and The National Gallery of Australia, Holmes a Court collection and the Australian Embassy in South Korea.
© Adrian Newstead
