Professor Kurt Baier (1917-2010) was a moral philosopher. A German Jew, he fled to London from Vienna to escape Nazi persecution three months before his final legal examinations.
1 portrait in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2002
Kurt Fearnley AO (b. 1981), athlete, won four world titles, three Paralympic gold medals and over 40 marathons in a distinguished twenty-year career.
1 portrait in the collection
Baron Kurt von Stutterheim (1888–1978), German journalist and author, worked for the Berliner Tageblatt newspaper in Berlin, London and Rome from 1919 to 1936.
1 portrait in the collection
Purchased 2013
Gift of Danina Dupain Anderson 2021. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Hugo Wolfsohn, a Dunera Boy, was Foundation Professor of Politics at Latrobe University.
2 portraits in the collection
Professor Fred Gruen (1921-1997) was one of Australia's most influential economists.
1 portrait in the collection
Erwin Fabian (1915-2020) was a sculptor, industrial designer and graphic artist.
3 portraits in the collection
Henry Mayer (1919-1991) was Professor of Government at Sydney University from the 1960s to 1980s.
2 portraits in the collection
Scott Redford (b. 1962) is a highly significant and influential Australian contemporary artist who has been exhibiting since the early 1980s.
2 portraits in the collection
Purchased 2003
Penelope Grist discovers the rich narratives in Peter Wegner’s series of centenarian portraits.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2011
Gift of Robyn Archer AO 2012. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.