Hans Heysen (1877-1968) Australia

Biographical Information

Sir Hans Heysen was born in Hamburg and arrived in Adelaide, South Australia in 1884.

He was a watercolourist and studied at the Norwood Art School under James Ashton, the Adelaide School of Design under Harry P. Gill and the Academie des Beaux-Arts, Paris. His first exhibition was held at. the Guild Hall, Melbourne in 1908.

In SA he lived in the beautiful town of Hahndorf and produced many superb watercolours of Australian bush. landscapes with strongly drawn gum trees, many of which portrayed the ,stand of gum trees on his own property, the Flinders Ranges and the Mount Lofty Range.

Heysen won the Wynne Prize for landscapes nine times between 1904 and 1932. He was a member for the Board of Trustees of A.G.S.A. and won various other prizes such as the. Crouch Prize in 1932, Vizard- Wholohan Prize in 1957 and an O.B.E. was conferred. on him in 1954 and he was knighted in 1959.

He is represented extensively throughout Australia and his work hangs in the British Museum.

He lived in South Australia until his death in 1968.

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Market Information

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	Total number sold	Number with images	Highest price	Recent average price*
Paintings	214	54	A$306,000	A$23,045
Works on Paper	1,518	421	A$167,500	A$11,051
Prints & Graphics	57	15	A$13,000	A$712

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