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Ron O'Reilly
Ronald Norris O'Reilly (9 September 1914 – 10 July 1982) was a librarian who promoted and exhibited contemporary New Zealand art. He served as Christchurch City Libraries, Christchurch city librarian from 1951 to 1968, and director of the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery from 1975 to 1979. Early life and family Born in Wellington on 9 September 1914, O'Reilly was the son of James Matthew O'Reilly, a customs official, and Nellie Blanche May O'Reilly. After completing his secondary education at New Plymouth Boys' High School, he worked for the New Zealand Customs Service, Customs Department from 1933 to 1946. In 1941, he graduated with a Master of Arts degree in philosophy from the University of Otago, and then taught there part-time for four years before completing the New Zealand Library Diploma at the Library School in Wellington. In 1940, O'Reilly married Elizabeth Whittleston, and the couple had two children before divorcing in 1956. O'Reilly married Daphne Carruthers in 1956, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christchurch City Libraries
Christchurch City Libraries is a network of 21 libraries and a mobile book bus. operated by the Christchurch City Council and Following the 2011 Christchurch earthquake the previous Christchurch Central Library building was demolished, and was replaced by a new central library building in Cathedral Square, '' Tūranga'', which opened in 2018. A number of community libraries were also rebuilt post earthquake. Early history The library began as the Mechanics' Institute in 1859, when 100 subscribers leased temporary premises in the then Town Hall. The collection consisted of a few hundred books. By 1863, with the help of a grant from the Provincial Government, the Mechanics' Institute opened a building on a half-acre of freehold land on the corner of Cambridge Terrace and Hereford Street, purchased the year before at a cost of £262.10.0. This site was to remain the home of the library until 1982. Debt, dwindling subscribers and other problems forced the institute to hand o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Professor Mamlock (play)
''Professor Mamlock'' is a theater play written by Friedrich Wolf in 1933. Portraying the hardships a Jewish doctor named Hans Mamlock experiences under the Hitler regime, it is one of the earliest works dealing with Nazi antisemitism. Characters *Professor Hans Mamlock, a renowned Jewish surgeon and a decorated World War I veteran, holds conservative political views. *Ellen Mamlock, the professor's non-Jewish wife, holds right-wing views. *Rolf Mamlock, the professor's son, a committed communist. *Ruth Mamlock, the professor's daughter, holds right-wing views. *Doctor Friedrich Carlsen, attending physician who supervises Mamlock's staff in the clinic and his long-time friend. *Doctor Hirsch, a Jewish physician in the clinic. *Doctor Hellpach a physician in the clinic, holds right-wing views. *Doctor Inge Ruoff a female physician in the clinic and a member of the Nazi Party. *Nurse Hedwig, the clinic's nurse. *Simon, a Jewish medic in the clinic. *Werner Seidel, editor of a li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toss Woollaston
Sir Mountford Tosswill "Toss" Woollaston (11 April 1910 – 30 August 1998) was a New Zealand artist. He is regarded as one of the most important New Zealand painters of the 20th century. Life Born in Toko, Taranaki in 1910, Woollaston attended primary school at Stratford, and then Stratford Technical High School. In 1931 he studied art at the Canterbury School of Art in Christchurch where one of his teachers was Margaret Stoddart. He became interested in modernism after moving to Dunedin to study with R N Field at the art school attached to the King Edward Technical College. As Woollaston noted in his autobiography ''Sage Tea'', Field's work ‘conveyed directly, without the intervention of ''subject'', the excitement of the act of painting'. While at art school Woollaston met Rodney Kennedy and the two became lovers and remained life-long friends after Woollaston's marriage to Edith Alexander who had also been an art student in Dunedin. Kennedy went on to become a driving ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Apple
Billy Apple (born Barrie Bates; 31 December 19356 September 2021) was a New Zealand artist whose work is associated with the London, Auckland and New York schools of pop art in the 1960s and NY's Conceptual Art movement in the 1970s. He worked alongside artists like Andy Warhol and David Hockney before opening the second of the seven New York Not-for-Profit spaces in 1969. His work is held in the permanent collections of Tate Britain, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Guggenheim Museum, Chrysler Museum of Art, Detroit Institute of Arts, National Gallery of Australia, Te Papa, Auckland Art Gallery, the Christchurch Art Gallery, the University of Auckland, and the Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst in Belgium. Early life Barrie Bates was born in the Auckland suburb of Royal Oak on 31 December 1935, the eldest child of Marija (née Petrie, originally Petrich, of Croatian origin) and Albert Bates. He attended Mount Albert Grammar School, b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Len Lye
Leonard Charles Huia Lye (; 5 July 1901 – 15 May 1980) was a New Zealand artist known primarily for his experimental films and kinetic sculpture. His films are held in archives including the New Zealand Film Archive, British Film Institute, Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and the Pacific Film Archive at University of California, Berkeley. Lye's sculptures are found in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery and the Berkeley Art Museum. Although he became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1950, much of his work went to New Zealand after his death, where it is housed at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery in New Plymouth. Career As a student, Lye became convinced that motion could be part of the language of art, leading him to early (and now lost) experiments with kinetic sculpture, as well as a desire to make film. Lye was also one of the first Pākehā artists to appreciate the art of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wystan Curnow
Wystan Tremayne Le Cren Curnow (born 1939) is a New Zealand art critic, poet, academic, arts administrator, and independent curator. He is the son of Elizabeth Curnow, a painter and printmaker, and poet Allen Curnow. Biography Curnow was born in Christchurch in 1939 to Elizabeth and Allen Curnow. He was named after the modernist poet W.H. Auden (Wystan Hugh). His parents' home in the Christchurch suburb of Merivale was a hub for writers, artists, actors, and composers. Allen Curnow was closely associated with Denis Glover's flagship publishing business, Caxton Press, and the group of writers around this project, including Charles Brasch, Walter D'Arcy Cresswell, A. R. D. Fairburn, R.A.K. Mason and Ursula Bethell. Elizabeth Curnow was friends with artists such as Leo Bensemann, Evelyn Page, Douglas MacDiarmid, and Rita Angus. The Curnow family moved to Auckland's North Shore in 1951, after Allen Curnow was offered a job lecturing in the English Department at Auckland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Art Gallery, New Zealand
The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa is New Zealand's national museum and is located in Wellington. Usually known as Te Papa (Māori for ' the treasure box'), it opened in 1998 after the merging of the National Museum of New Zealand and the National Art Gallery. An average of more than 1.1 million people visit every year, making it the 58th-most-visited art gallery in the world in 2023. Te Papa operates under a bicultural philosophy, and emphasises the living stories behind its cultural treasures. History Colonial Museum The first predecessor to Te Papa was the Colonial Museum, founded in 1865, with Sir James Hector as founding director. The museum was built on Museum Street, roughly in the location of the present day Defence House Office Building. The museum prioritised scientific collections but also acquired a range of other items, often by donation, including prints and paintings, ethnographic curiosities, and items of antiquity. In 1907, the Colonial Museum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter McLeavey Gallery
Peter Joseph John McLeavey (21 September 1936 – 12 November 2015) was a New Zealand art dealer and advocate based in Wellington. Early life Born in Raetihi on 21 September 1936, McLeavey was the son of Leslie Francis McLeavey and Elizabeth Theresa McLeavey (née McTiernan). His father worked on the railways and his childhood was spent moving around railway settlements in New Zealand's North Island, including Ohakune, Levin, Napier, Feilding, New Plymouth, Waitara, and Lower Hutt. He credited the beginning of his interest in art to a teacher at his high school in Waitara. Career Jeremy Diggle, Professor of Fine Arts at Massey University, called McLeavey "the most important commercial gallerist New Zealand has ever had, effectively the pre-eminent publisher of modern New Zealand art in the past 50 years". His eponymous gallery is the longest-lived in New Zealand. McLeavey started his art dealing career in 1966, showing art in the bedroom of his apartment on central Welling ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auckland City Art Gallery
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki is the principal public gallery in Auckland, New Zealand. It has the most extensive collection of national and international art in New Zealand and frequently hosts travelling international exhibitions. Set below the hilltop Albert Park in the central-city area of Auckland, the gallery was established in 1888 as the first permanent art gallery in New Zealand. The building originally housed both the Auckland Art Gallery and the Auckland public library, and opened with collections donated by benefactors Governor Sir George Grey and James Tannock Mackelvie. This was the second public art gallery in New Zealand, after the Dunedin Public Art Gallery, which opened three years earlier in 1884. Wellington's New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts opened in 1892 and a Wellington Public Library in 1893. In 2009, it was announced that the museum received a donation from American businessman Julian Robertson, valued at over $100 million, the largest ever ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
