Alpine village
(c. 1936)
- Medium
- oil on canvas on canvas on plywood
- Measurements
- (59.7x 45.0 cm)
- Place/s of Execution
- Berchtesgaden, Bavaria, Germany
- Inscription
- inscribed in grey paint l.r.: Rehfisch
- Accession Number
- 2020.584
- Department
- Australian Painting
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Andrée Harkness through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program
© Kevin Power AM, Copyright Holder, Alison Rehfisch Estate - Gallery location
- Not on display
- About this work
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Alison Rehfisch studied at the Julian Ashton School in Sydney before taking classes with the influential Italian-Australian art teacher Antonio Dattilo-Rubbo. She shared studios with Dorrit Black and Thea Proctor before travelling to London in 1933. Attending the Grosvenor School of Modern Art under Iain Macnab reinforced Rehfisch’s devotion to modernist ideals of colour, form and design. Her stylised compositions were shown at the Royal Institute of Oil Painters in London and the Société Nationale des Beaux Arts in Paris. Rehfisch toured extensively through Spain, Germany and France in the mid 1930s, painting many of the towns and villages she visited on her travels.
