Australian mural, mosaic and stained glass artist (1893–1972)
Napier Waller
Napier Waller in 1919
Born
Mervyn Napier Waller
(1893-06-19)19 June 1893
Penshurst
Died
30 March 1972(1972-03-30) (aged 78)
Melbourne
Monuments
Glass stained windows (Australian War Memorial)
Nationality
Australian
Education
Melbourne National School of Art
Occupation(s)
Artist, soldier
Known for
Mosaic murals and stained glass windows
Notable work
Hall of Memory, Australian War Memorial
Spouses
Christian Waller
(m. 1915; death 1955)
Lorna Reyburn
(m. 1958)
Parents
William Waller (father)
Sarah Waller (mother)
Awards
Order of St Michael and St George
Order of the British Empire
Waller's signature (with left hand after war injury)
Mervyn Napier Waller CMG OBE (19 June 1893 – 30 March 1972) was an Australian muralist, mosaicist and painter in stained glass and other media. He is perhaps best known for the mosaics and stained glass for the Hall of Memory at the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, completed in 1958. However, Melbourne has been described as "a gallery of Napier Waller’s work", as eleven monumental murals by Waller are on display in the central business district and at the University of Melbourne’s main campus.
Nicholas Draffin, author of a monograph on Waller, in the Australian Dictionary of Biography, writes that his work "was strongly influenced by Pre-Raphaelite and late-nineteenth century British painters; his monumental works show an increasingly classical and calmly formal style, using timeless and heroic figure compositions to express ideas and ideals, sometimes with theosophical or gnostic overtones".[1]
^Draffin, Nicholas (1990). "Waller, Mervyn Napier (1893 - 1972)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943. Retrieved 7 October 2008.
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