Allan Mitelman

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Allan Mitelman (6 August 1946, Poland) is an Australian painter, printmaker and art teacher who arrived in Australia in 1953.

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Biography

Allan Mitelman was brought to Australia from Poland as a child in 1953. He and photographer Jacqueline Mitelman (née MacGreggor) were briefly married. [1] [2]

Training and career

He received his early training from his art teacher, the Austrian-born sculptor Karl Duldig, before studying architecture for a year. He then studied at the Prahran College of Advanced Education 1965–68. He consolidate his interest in printmaking with further studies at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) soon after which, in 1972, Mitelman was included with Martin Sharp, Arthur Boyd and Fred Williams in the exhibition Australian Prints at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London [3] and an etching and lithograph by Mitelman was acquired by the Museum of Modern Art in New York. [1] [4]

Teaching

Mitelman contributed to the arts through his teaching. He lectured at the National Gallery of Victoria School in 1972 and the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne where he was head of a separate department of printmaking, but in the merger of Prahran College with the VCA in 1992, he was replaced by John Scurry, Head of Printmaking at Prahran in a new and expanded department. [5] Both had been students at Prahran together and they enjoyed an amicable friendship. [6] He has been the subject of portraits by former students for the Archibald Prize, most notably Lewis Miller whose portrait of the artist won the Prize in 1998.

Style and reception

Mitelman's paintings are non-figurative and minimalist, [7] inspired by children's early mark-making [8] and musical scores, with an interest rhythms and harmonies of hue and texture through layering and manipulation of paint with a palette knife. Alan Krell and Suzanne Davis compare his work to that of the American artist Cy Twombly and the English artist Roger Hilton respectively. McCulloch describes his paintings as like the prints in having "a sensuous refinement of surface enlivened with accents, their quality often being complemented by evocative titles." [9]

Awards

Collections

Exhibitions

Solo

Mitelman held annual solo exhibitions from 1969 including in Melbourne at Crossley St, Powell St, Pinacotheca, 312 Lennox St, Deutscher Brunswick St.; in Sydney at Macquarie, Garry Anderson, Ray Hughes; and in Perth at Galerie Düsseldorf. [16] In 2004 the National Gallery of Victoria held a major survey of Mitelman's works on paper, curated by Elizabeth Cross, which also toured to the Art Gallery of New South Wales. [9] [1]

Group and survey

Mitelman's work was included in many print surveys and graphic art exhibitions. [9]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Cross, Elizabeth; Maloon, Terence; National Gallery of Victoria (2004), Allan Mitelman : works on paper 1967-2004, National Gallery of Victoria, ISBN   978-0-7241-0250-1
  2. ↑ "Allan Mitelman: Associates". Design and Art Australia Online. Retrieved 27 March 2023.
  3. ↑ "New exhibitions start at the V&A". The Kensington News and West London Times. 14 July 1972. p. 2.
  4. 1 2 "Allan Mitelman: Works". Museum of Modern Art.
  5. ↑ Pascoe, Joseph; Victorian College of the Arts (2000). Creating : the Victorian College of the Arts. Victoria: Macmillan. ISBN   9780958574389. OCLC   54057837.
  6. ↑ Buckrich, Judith Raphael; Prahran Mechanics' Institute (2007), Design for living: a history of 'Prahran Tech', Prahran Mechanics' Institute Press, pp. 96–99, ISBN   978-0-9756000-8-5
  7. ↑ Maloon, Terence; Selwood, Paul (2011). Abstraction : Michael Buzacott Virginia Coventry Paul Hopmeier Roy Jackson Jan King Allan Mitelman John Peart James Rogers Paul Selwood & Aida Tomeson. Catalogue of an exhibition held at ANU Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra, 18 August-25 September 2011. Canberra: Australian National University, Drill Hall Gallery. ISBN   9780980804447.
  8. ↑ "A gift of ten drawings by Allan Mitelman – Archives and Special Collections". University of Melbourne Archives and Special Collections. Retrieved 2023-03-26.
  9. 1 2 3 4 McCulloch, Alan; McCulloch, Susan; McCulloch Childs, Emily (2006). The new McCulloch's Encyclopedia of Australian Art (4th ed.). Fitzroy: AUS Art Editions ; The Miegunyah Press. pp. 688–9. ISBN   9780522853179. OCLC   80568976.
  10. ↑ "Collections Online | British Museum } Allan Mitelman". www.britishmuseum.org. Retrieved 2023-03-26.
  11. ↑ "Artists | NGV | Allan MItelman". National Gallery of Victoria. Retrieved 2023-03-26.
  12. ↑ "Allan Mitelman". AGSA - Online Collection. Retrieved 2023-03-26.
  13. ↑ "Mitelman, Allan (1946) Untitled (2000) ink, sheet 14.6cm (H) × 9.6cm (W) Baillieu Library Print Collection, University of Melbourne. Gift of Matisse Mitelman. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program, 2015". Baillieu Library Print Collection, University of Melbourne | Highlights of the Collection. Retrieved 27 March 2023.
  14. ↑ "Allan Mitelman". Heide. Retrieved 2023-03-26.
  15. ↑ "Allan Mitelman". Auckland Art Gallery. Retrieved 2023-03-26.
  16. ↑ "Allan Mitelman Biography 1999". Galerie Dusseldorf. 1999. Retrieved 2023-03-26.
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