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2012 Portrait of Alex Mendelssohn courtesy of Jase Munn, Melbourne, Australia.
Born
30 May 1935
Died
10 December 2017
Nationality
Hungarian
Residence
Australia
Renown
Oil Paintings
Genre
Expressionistic Impressionism
Signature
Opalescent Chiaroscuro
Alex Mendelssohn, 2011, One More for Picasso, oil on canvas, 30 cm x 60 cm, private collection.Alex Mendelssohn, 2012, Byzantiens, oil on canvas, 70 cm x 50 cm, private collection.
Alex Mendelssohn (30 May 1935 – 10 December 2017) was an outback artist and opal miner in Australia of Hungarian descent, also known by his birth name Sándor Mendelssohn (variant of the name Alexander in Hungary).
At the interview "His Colorful Life", he professed to Kristina Meredith of Country Press South Australia that he was a born rebel and an adventurer at heart. Alex Mendelssohn migrated from war-worn Hungary in the early 1950s to mine for opal in the stark opal town of Andamooka where the famous Andamooka Opal or Queen's Opal was discovered in the 1950s and presented to Queen Elizabeth II.[1]
For Alex Mendelssohn, the isolated outback community built upon red earth, nicknamed 'Mars on Earth' presented the freedom he craved, far away from the shackles of politics, war, and bureaucracy of his early years. In a radio interview 6.30 with George Negus (28 June 2004) Alex Mendelssohn expressed the reason he called Andamooka his home: "You're not controlled by councils and regulations and laws and rules. You do whatever you bloody like."[2]
^Kristina Meredith (2008). "His Colorful Life". Country Press South Australia.
^George Negus Tonight (28 June 2004). "Andamooka". Archived from the original on 21 July 2013. Retrieved 23 May 2013.
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between the Classical and Romantic eras. Carl Maria von Weber, Felix Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms were significant Romantic composers...
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eliminated from public records and that judicial autonomy was annulled. Moses Mendelssohn wrote that "Such a tolerance... is even more dangerous play in tolerance...
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Archived from the original on 26 June 2019. Retrieved 7 December 2018. Stedman, Alex (13 June 2021). "How 'Sea of Thieves' Brought 'Pirates of the Caribbean'...
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