Eva Kubbos's Silent Mountain on View in Migration and Modernism at National Gallery of Australia
On display at the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra until 7 March 2027 is Eva Kubbos's 1962 screenprint, Silent mountain, measuring 73 × 53.7 cm. This colorful piece, created using two stencils and part of an edition of 4/12, was donated by Kubbos in 1988. Curator Rebecca Edwards characterizes it as a fusion of abstract expressionism infused with Kubbos's experiences in Lithuania and Australia. Originally from Lithuania, Kubbos relocated to East Berlin in 1945, where she studied under the rigorous German expressionism style before moving to Australia in 1952. In 1961, she co-founded the Sydney Printmakers, and her works are featured in prominent Australian galleries.
Key facts
- Eva Kubbos's Silent mountain (1962) is on display at the National Gallery of Australia until 7 March 2027.
- The screenprint is from an edition of 4/12, printed in colour inks from two stencils, measuring 73 × 53.7 cm.
- It was gifted by Eva Kubbos to the National Gallery of Australia in 1988.
- Kubbos moved from Lithuania to East Berlin in 1945 at age seventeen to study at the College of Applied Art for five years.
- She produced lithographs and illustrations of Bertolt Brecht's play Mother Courage and Her Children, leading to a sell-out exhibition.
- In 1952 she migrated to Australia with her sister Marta, later studying at RMIT and Swinburne Technical College in Melbourne from 1956.
- She moved to Sydney in 1960, met Henry Salkauskas, and co-founded the Sydney Printmakers in 1961.
- Curator Rebecca Edwards says Kubbos was significant in Australian printmaking in the 1960s and played a key role in the print revival.
Entities
Artists
- Eva Kubbos
- Bertolt Brecht
- Henry Salkauskas
- Udo Sellbach
- Rebecca Edwards
- Bronwyn Watson
Institutions
- National Gallery of Australia
- College of Applied Art
- RMIT
- Swinburne Technical College
- Contemporary Art Society
- Sydney Printmakers
- Art Gallery of New South Wales
- National Gallery of Victoria
- Art Almanac
Locations
- Lithuania
- East Berlin
- Germany
- Australia
- Melbourne
- Sydney
- Canberra
- Australian Capital Territory