Shared Experience: Yes Sir
Art and War
Ludwig Hirschfeld Mack
Yes Sir
red gum wood
37 x 22 x 22cm
ART28158
Despite fellow artist Stella Bowen’s efforts on behalf of her friend, Hirschfeld Mack spent the first years of the war in several internment camps. In a letter to her cousin, Bowen wrote:
Many of us in England are deeply ashamed of the way internees have been treated. They were our friends and they have been treated like cattle. But perhaps Australia will be more liberal. It could afford it.
Paintings
- British Prisoners of War, Italy
Paul Bullard - Blind man in Belsen
Alan Moore - Roberts Hospital, Changi
Murray Griffin - Bodies in a Grave, Belsen
Alex Colville - Human Laundry, Belsen: April 1945
Doris Zinkeisen - Refugees in Udine, 1945
Edward Bawden - British Women and Children Interned in a Japanese Prison Camp, Syme Road, Singapore
Leslie Cole - Yes Sir
Ludwig Hirschfeld Mack