Artist: Kurt Tsadek Lewin
museum: Sydney Jewish Museum (Sydney, Australia)
Teknik: Sculpture
Kurt Lewinski carved this hedgehog out of Mulga wood in 1991. In 1938, Kurt went to an ORT school in Berlin to learn a trade in preparation for emigration. In August 1939, he and 95 other ORT boys were sent to Leeds, England, to attend a technical school. Shortly after, the 18-year-olds were interned as ‘enemy aliens’ and sent to Australia on the HMT Dunera in 1940. Kurt learned to carve while interned at Hay internment camp. He modelled small animals from wooden offcuts using a pocket knife. He perfected his carving skills and made small items for domestic use such as ashtrays, cigarette boxes and bookends ,which brought in some handy pocket money. His animal carvings tended to show off the characteristic features of their breed. Kurt joined two other Dunera friends, Fred Lowen (FL) and Ernest Rodeck (ER), in their ‘FLER’ wooden furniture enterprise. By the 1960s, FLER had grown into a major design company, with factories across Australia. Kurt continued to produce little wooden animals and other objects until his death in 2005. The object was donated by fellow ‘Dunera Boy
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