Ludwik Dutkiewicz (2 February 1921 – 2008) was an Australian

artist An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating the work of art. The most common usage (in both everyday speech and academic discourse) refers to a practitioner in the visual arts o ...

born in Poland. He was born in Stara Sil,

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(then a part of

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) on 2 February 1921. He won the 1953 and 1954

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Career

Dutkiewicz was appointed as botanical illustrator to the

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in 1953. He illustrated numerous botanical books including as a contributing illustrator to ''

Flora of Australia The flora of Australia comprises a vast assemblage of plant species estimated to over 21,000 vascular and 14,000 non-vascular plants, 250,000 species of fungi and over 3,000 lichens. The flora has strong affinities with the flora of Gondwana, ...

''.

Collections

Dutkiewicz's works are held in the collections of the

Art Gallery of South Australia The Art Gallery of South Australia (AGSA), established as the National Gallery of South Australia in 1881, is located in Adelaide. It is the most significant visual arts museum in the Australian state of South Australia. It has a collection of ...

(''Green Village'', ''Classic abstract'', ''Life drawing of seated nude'', ''Time in Summer'' (film still), and ''Portrait of David Dallwitz''.); the

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(''Transfiguration''); the

Newcastle Art Gallery The Newcastle Art Gallery, formerly the Newcastle City Art Gallery and Newcastle Region Art Gallery, is a large public art museum in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. History Founded in 1945 with an art collection consisting of 123 wor ...

(''Recluse''); the

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(''Portrait of a ballerina 'Natasha); the

Heide Museum of Modern Art The Heide Museum of Modern Art, also known as Heide, is an art museum in Bulleen, Victoria, Bulleen, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia. Established in 1981, the museum exhibits modern art, modern and contemporary a ...

(''Landscape with Arches''); the

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(''Reflections'' (short film), 1962, Director; ''Time In Summer'' (feature film), 1968, Director; and ''Transfiguration'' (short film), 1964, Producer.);

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(''Untitled'', line drawing, and ''Untitled'', oil painting.); and the

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(''Didgeridoo'').

Exhibitions

His work has been exhibited at the

Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art The Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art (UIMA) () is a modern art museum serving the Chicago area with an ongoing program of cultural exhibitions, literary events, film screenings, and music recitals. UIMA was founded in 1971 by Dr. Achilles Chrept ...

(''Australian Artists from Ukraine'', group), Flinders University Museum of Art (''Ludwik Dutkiewicz: the Dangerfield collection''), the Royal SA Society of Arts Gallery (''Untitled'', 1951, group; ''Adelaide 1952 Group'', 1952, group; and ''Untitled'', 1954, solo), and the Toorak Art Gallery (''From Boyd to Wakelin'', 1968, group).

Awards

He won the

in 1953 (''Boats after Storm''), and 1954 (''Green Village'').

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dutkiewicz, Ludwik 1921 births 2008 deaths 20th-century Australian painters Artists from South Australia Australian film directors Australian film producers Australian male painters Modern painters People from Lviv Oblast