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expo-intervenção internacional de arte urbana Cola Aqui ! stick here! #04
maio . 2012
Sede Enxame Coletivo , Bauru .SP - Brasil
Stick Here! is an itinerant urban art expo-intervention that brings together artists from around the world through arts badges - stickers, posters and paste-ups.
The public is invited to attend the expo fully interactive, since its assembly process (sticking material) to the interactions with the sticked objects and environments.
Klaus Friedeberger
Gouache on paper, pasted to backing sheet of card with newspaper sheet on verso
This poster was produced in 1941 for a musical revue, Journey Round the World, staged by the Dunera internees at the camp at Tatura, Victoria. Friedeberger ironically refers to the Dunera experience as three men on a corrugated-iron flying carpet are carried by the winds of fate to the accompaniment of a honky-tonk piano. One studies a map, tracing their journey through a telescope for a first glimpse of the new land, while a third sits at the back looking at the world left behind.*
From the exhibition
Klaus Friedeberger: drawings from an Australian Internment
(January 2023 – June 2023)
Klaus Friedeberger (1922–2019) was not yet 17 when he arrived in England as a German refugee from Nazism in 1939.
Born in Berlin to middle-class, secular Jewish parents, he was rounded up as an 'enemy alien' and, in 1940, was transported to Australia on the prison ship Dunera with 2,542 detainees, some 2,000 of whom were refugees, mostly of German and Austrian Jewish background.
Friedeberger spent a period of 18 months in three internment camps behind barbed wire in outback Australia: Hay and Orange in New South Wales, and Tatura in Victoria. His drawings and watercolours record the routine of the internees in the camps – manual work, playing football, sleeping, attending hut meetings – with the vast Australian landscape heightening the surreal experience of their internment.
In 1942 Friedeberger was released from the camps after volunteering to join a labour corps of the Australian Army. After demobilisation, he studied painting at East Sydney Technical College before returning to England to pursue his career as a painter and graphic designer.
This display was a selection of drawings and watercolours that Friedeberger made in the camps. They came from a gift of 34 works on paper recently presented to the British Museum by the artist's widow, Julie Friedeberger. This gift also included a group of 12 monotypes and a sketch-book from the 1950s produced after his return to England, as well as a few juvenile works made prior to his deportation on the Dunera.
[*British Museum]
Taken in the British Museum