English-born Australian (worked in London and Paris)1868–1909
Charles Conder
An English-born painter who spent only four years in Australia but became one of the founding Australian Impressionists of the Heidelberg School. He left for Europe in 1890 and settled among the avant-garde of London and Paris, where he became best known for watercolours painted on silk fans.
A life in paintings
- 1868Born
- 1888Worked with Arthur StreetonEaglemont, Heidelberg, Victoria
Streeton and Conder shared the artists' camp at Eaglemont, above Heidelberg, painting the hills and river flats there until both left Melbourne in 1890.
Source: WikipediaWorked with Tom RobertsSydney, then Box Hill and Heidelberg, VictoriaRoberts met Conder in Sydney in 1888 and the two painted together there. Conder moved to Melbourne that year and joined Roberts and Streeton at their outdoor painting camps, first at Box Hill and, from late 1888, at Heidelberg.
Source: Wikipedia - 1909Died
Whistler's tonal, Japanese-inspired compositions shaped Conder's early work in Australia, and Conder later moved in the same aesthetic circles in London.
Circles
Exhibition · Buxton's Rooms, Melbourne · 1889
9 by 5 Impression Exhibition (1889)
Held in August 1889 and named for the 9 × 5 inch cigar-box lids most of the works were painted on. Conder designed the catalogue cover.
Group · Melbourne · 1885
Heidelberg School
Australian Impressionists who painted outdoors at artists' camps around Melbourne — Box Hill, Mentone and Eaglemont above Heidelberg — from the mid-1880s.
Where to see them
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
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