Presenters

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  Dr Arie Hartog, Director

  Dr Arie Hartog

  Director
  Gerhard Marcks Haus

  

  Keynote address and 2020 Duldig Lecture on Sculpture Dr. Arie Hartog is Director of Gerhard Marcks Haus, a museum for modern and contemporary sculpture inspired by the work of the German sculptor and graphic artist Gerhard Marcks (b. 1889 d. 1981). Dr Hartog is also chairman of the Association of Sculpture Museums and Sculpture Collections Working Group in Germany. His research focuses on the history of European sculpture.

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  Dr Georgina Walker, Honorary Research Fellow

  Dr Georgina Walker

  Honorary Research Fellow
  University of Melbourne

  

  Georgina Walker is a graduate of the Art History and Curatorship Department of the University of Melbourne. She is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne and teaches in Art History, Curatorial and Museum Studies. Her monograph, The Private Collector’s Museum: Public Good Versus Private Gain (Routledge 2019) connects the rising popularity of private museums with new models of cultural philanthropy, curatorial practice and new interrelationships between private and public art museums within a historical and contemporary context. She is a Member of the Board of Management, Duldig Studio, 2019. Georgina’s current research interests include the recent and fastgrowing number of private, national and international museums that have emerged in the AsiaPacific and Arabian Gulf. https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/603865georginas.walker

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  Dr Jane Eckett, Teaching Associate in Art History

  Dr Jane Eckett

  Teaching Associate in Art History
  University of Melbourne

  

  Dr Jane Eckett is a teaching associate in art history at the University of Melbourne whose research focuses on modernist sculpture and émigré legacies. In 2018, she was appointed the Ursula Hoff Fellow at the Ian Potter Museum of Art and National Gallery of Victoria, focussing on HirschfeldMack’s monotypes. Recent publications include chapters in Bauhaus Diaspora and Beyond (MUP and Power Publications, 2019), Australia Modern (Thames and Hudson, 2019), and Melbourne Modern: European art and design at RMIT since 1945 (RMIT gallery, 2019), the latter she coedited with Harriet Edquist. https://events.unimelb.edu.au/presenters/11130drjaneeckett

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  Mrs Eva de Jong-Duldig, Founder and Patron

  Mrs Eva de Jong-Duldig

  Founder and Patron
  Duldig Studio

  

  Eva was born in Vienna in 1938, one month before Nazi Germany annexed Austria. With her parents, Karl and Slawa Duldig, she was fortunate to escape to Switzerland later in that year. Shortly after the family travelled to Singapore and then in September 1940 to Australia, where they were interned at Tatura as ‘enemy aliens’ for almost two years. In her role as Founding Director, Eva initiated many public and educational programs including, since 1986, the Annual Duldig Lecture on Sculpture at the National Gallery of Victoria. With the support of the Austrian government she enabled a Karl Duldig travelling exhibition from the Duldig collection to be shown in Vienna and Krakow in 2003. Another touring exhibition visited seven Victorian regional museums in 200608, and Karl Duldig’s work was included in major exhibitions on Viennese art and design at the National Gallery of Victoria in 1990 and 2011. Eva retired as Director in 2014 but continues, as Founder and Patron, to contribute to the Duldig Studio through her personal knowledge of and insights into the family history and the collection. Eva has recently completed a personal account of her family’s remarkable story for publication in a major new memoir – Driftwood (2017).