Club Visit to Telopea Park School

                    

 

 

Members visited Telopea Park School for the Club meeting on 15th May.  The Telopea Park Interact Club hosted the Club and put on a wonderful breakfast, complete with barista coffee, with the meal showcasing the cooking talents of many of the students. 

Guest speaker for the meeting was Esther Davies, School Archivist, who provided an entertaining talk on the many years effort on tracking down the artist and story associated with the large painting that has been in the school for many years, and also the work involved in the recent restoration of the painting. This very large (approximately 5m long x 2.3m high) artwork was painted by post war refugees Werner (Verners) Linde (1895-1970) and his son Girt (Giris) Linde for the Arts and Crafts exhibition at the First Australian Citizenship Convention in Canberra in January, 1950. At the time he was forced to flee Europe after the war, Verners Linde was a Latvian artist and newspaper cartoonist of considerable standing who had trained at the School of Art and Design at the Stieglitz Palace in St. Petersburg.