JOE ROSE (1915 – 1999)
(German. Emigrated to Australia)
“Insight”. Watercolour & Pastel
26 ¾” X 18 ½” (680 X
470mm). Signed IMAGE
Joe Rose, was a surrealist artist, born in Woldenberg,
Germany. His art training in Europe was
interrupted by the advent of World War II and he was imprisoned for anti-Nazi
activities. After a harsh time in concentration camps at Sonnenberge in 1933
and Buckenwald in 1938, he and his wife made a remarkable escape in 1939. They came to England and he volunteered for
the British Army serving with the Reconnaissance Corps. After demobilisation in
1945 he gained a Diploma from the International Correspondence Schools and worked as a display
artist and director in London. In 1957 he emigrated to Australia where he
studied with Maximilian Feuerring. He was elected a member of the Australian
Watercolour Institute and in London, where he returned in 1971, he joined the
Contemporary Portrait Society, the Contemporary Art Society and Ben Uri Art
Society. From 1979 he decided to live and work in London and Sydney,
eventually settling in Hobart, Tasmania, where he was a Member of the Tasmanian
Art Society. He had one-man shows in Sydney at the Galleries of Barry Stern,
Macquarie and Holdsworth (where in 1995 he had an eightieth birthday
exhibition); in London at Ben Uri, Obelisk Gallery, Wilma Wayne, Jerusalem
Artists House and Sternberg Centre, also in Paris and Los Angeles as well as
many group shows in the UK and USA. He
won a number of awards including the British Empire Medal for services to the
Arts. His work is in the Collections of
Holocaust Museum, Jerusalem; Nuffield Foundation, London; Essex Arts Committee; Prince Mural
Collection of Surrealist Art, Paris; Ben Uri Art Collection, London; New South
Wales House, London and Bathurst Municipal Gallery.
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