AUSSIE - Friedrich Georg Kimmel Australian Protest Poster
- Peter Drew
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33 1/2 x 45 inches ~ (83 x 114 cm)$285
- Unbacked
This poster is currently unbacked. At check out, you will be given the opportunity to add backing which would cost $190 and take approximately 6-8 weeks.
Linen backing is the industry standard of conservation. Canvas is stretchered and a sheet of acid free barrier paper is laid down. The poster is then pasted to the acid free paper using an acid free paste. This process is fully reversible and gives support to the poster. A border of linen is left around the poster and can be used by a framer to mount the poster so that nothing touches the poster itself. Backing is what we recommend for framing, and for any poster needing restoration.
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Born in Vienna in 1925, Frederick George Kimmel was just 13 years old when his family migrated to Australia in 1938. He enlisted in the Royal Australian Air Force in 1943 at the age of 18 and served as a field mechanic. He died two years later in a military accident, just two months after the end of the war.
One of an amazing series of posters by Peter Drew an Australian artist whose work is concerned with memory, nationalism, masculinity, criminality, brown paper and mythology.
Each poster utilizes a vintage photo of an Australian from a variety of
