Yosl Bergner 'Kafka's Vulture' abstract art When major restoration efforts began

When major restoration efforts began in 1961

National Gallery of Victoria and Art Gallery of New South Wales

'Painters Studio II'

lies the implicit understanding these animals are in danger of total invisibility

Image Size: 53 x 760 cm

Yosl Bergner 'Kafka's Vulture' abstract art When major restoration efforts beganYosl Bergner is one of Australias most important artists. Born in Austria and raised in Poland, he and his family immigrated to Australia in 1937 to escape anti semitism. In Melbourne, Bergner attended the National Art School and befriended the Heide circle, who included Sidney Nolan, Albert Tucker and John Perceval. It was alongside Noel Coulihan and Vic OConnor however, that Bergner made his indeminable mark. Self described as a social humanist,