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Karl Duldig
Born
Karol Duldig

(1902-12-29)29 December 1902
Przemyśl, Galicia, Austria
Died8 November 1986(1986-11-08) (aged 83)
NationalityAustrian, Australian
Known forSculptor, table tennis champion, competitor in tennis and football.
StyleModernist
SpouseSlawa Horowitz Duldig
ChildrenEva Duldig, tennis player
RelativesTania de Jong (granddaughter)

Karl (Karol) Duldig (29 December 1902–11 August 1986) was a modernist sculptor.[1] He was born in Przemyśl, Austria, in what was Poland and moved to Vienna. He fled to Switzerland with his wife Slawa Horowitz Duldig and his daughter Eva Duldig upon the Nazis entering Vienna inasmuch as he was Jewish, then moved to Singapore -- from which he was deported, and was sent to Australia -- where for two years he and his family were interned as enemy aliens. As a sculptor, he often used a minimalist style, won the 1956 Victorian Sculptor of the Year Award, and had an annual lecture established in his name by the National Gallery of Victoria.

Biography

Early years

File:Eva Duldig with parents in Tatura c1941.jpg
Slawa Duldig, Eva Duldig, and Karl Duldig, held as enemy aliens, in Tatura Internment Camp 3 D in Australia, 1941.

Duldig was born in Przemyśl, Galicia, Austria, in what was Poland, and was Jewish.[2][3][1] His parents were Marcus Duldig and Eidla (Eydl) nee Nebenzahl Duldig.[1] In 1914 his family moved to Vienna.[1] He studied sculpture under Anton Hanak at the Kunstgewerbeschule from 1921-25.[1] He then studied sculpture at the Akademie der bildenden künste in Vienna from 1925-29.[1]

In 1923 he was Austrian national champion in table tennis.[1] He also played football as a goalkeeper for Hakoah Wien, and was one of Austria’s top tennis players.[4][5][6]

In 1931 he married artist and inventor Slawa Horowitz Duldig, who had patented the first folding umbrella in 1929.[7][8][9] Their only child, Eva Duldig, was born in 1938.[1] Eva became a champion Australian tennis player who played in Wimbledon, the French Championships, the Australian Open, and at the Maccabiah Games in Israel where she won two gold medals, and is founder of the present-day Duldig Studio, an artists’ house museum in Melbourne, Australia.[10][11]

Switzerland and Singapore; Fleeing Nazi Europe

Malay Boy (1939) by Karl Duldig, National Gallery Singapore

As the Nazis entered Austria, the family left first for Switzerland.[12] He first travelled to Switzerland without his wife and child, on a temporary visa to play in a tennis tournament, and later that year convinced an official to allow his family to “visit” him there in Zurich, thereby staying a step ahead of the Holocaust.[7][13][14]

The family then left for Singapore, where he completed commissions for the Sultan of Johor and Aw Boon Haw. But months the British colonial government classified the family as "citizens of an enemy country," and it was deported to Australia.[15][16][7][17]

Australia; enemy alien, sculptor

They were deported by boat from Singapore to Australia in September 1940.[9][18][7] He and his family were then interned as enemy aliens in isolated Tatura Internment Camp 3 D in Australia from 1940 to 1942.[19][1][20] The family later lived in St. Kilda and East Malvern, and became Australian citizens.[1]

Unveiling of monument in Tel Aviv, Israel, sculpted in remembrance of sportspeople killed in the Holocaust, 1968.

From 1945 to 1967 Duldig was art master at Mentone Grammar School.[1] As a sculptor, he exhibited at Victorian Sculptors' Society, and was featured in the 1956 Olympic Games art festival, the Mildura Sculpture Triennials, and the Adelaide Festival of Arts.[21][1] Works of his are displayed in the City of Caulfield, Melbourne General Cemetery War Memorial, Council House, the Australian National Gallery, and the Australian War Memorial.[15] His works are also shown at the National Gallery of Victoria, the McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, and the Newcastle Region Art Gallery.[1][22]

He often used a minimalist style.[23] In 1956 Duldig won the Victorian Sculptor of the Year Award.[15] In 1968, his bronze statue in memory of fallen sportspeople who were killed in the Holocaust was unveiled in Tel Aviv, Israel.[24][25][26]

After his wife died in 1975, in 1983 he married Rosia Ida Dorin.[1]

In 1986 an annual lecture was established in his name by the National Gallery of Victoria.[1]

In 2002 his daughter Eva founded the Duldig Studio in East Malvern, a not-for-profit public museum and art gallery, in her former family home.[16][14] It displays the works of her parents.[14]

Family

File:Eva Duldig & Henri de Jong Tel Aviv, Maccabiah 1961.jpg
Karl's daugher Eva Duldig and Eva's future husband Henri de Jong at the 1961 Maccabiah Games, in Tel Aviv, Israel.
File:Tania de Jong AM Portrait.jpg
Karl's granddaughter Tania de Jong

Karl and Slawa's daughter Eva became a tennis player, and competed at the Wimbledon Championships in 1961 for Australia. She also played at Wimbledon in 1962 and 1963 for the Netherlands, and competed in the Australian Open, French Championships, Fed Cup, and in the Maccabiah Games in Israel where she won two gold medals. Eva later wrote a memoir, Driftwood: Escape and Survival through Art (Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing and Arcadia, 2017) about her family's experiences.[27] In 2018, it was longlisted for the Dobbie Award.[5] Her memoir was made into a musical in 2022, entitled Driftwood -- The Musical, directed by Wesley Enoch.[9][28] Her daughter Tania wrote some of the lyrics.[29] Australian Broadcasting Corporation wrote that the musical "is a remarkable story".[30] The Australian Jewish News wrote: "there’s no shortage of drama, heartache and lucky escape."[31] Limelight wrote that the musical was "sincere to a fault."[32] The Age wrote: "Director Gary Abrahams keeps the story’s emotional core vivid and convincing and Anthony Barnhill’s score suits the material well. The singing is excellent.... this show has heart."[33]

Karl's granddaughter, Tania de Jong, born in 1964, is an Australian soprano, social entrepreneur, and businesswoman.[34] In 1965, after Tania's birth, the family returned to Melbourne, and after she gave birth to two more children Duldig found it challenging to maintain her tennis.[14] After her tennis career, she worked as a recreation consultant, a writer, and a designer of children’s play spaces.[14]

In 2022, Karl's great-granddaughters Andrea and Emma de Jong ran in the 2022 Maccabiah Games, and Emma won the 1,500-metre run as a junior.[35]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Australian Dictionary of Biography, Melbourne University Press, 1981.
  2. ^ "Australian Musical Charts Family's Escape from Nazis in Europe". VOA.
  3. ^ "Artists". ngv.vic.gov.au.
  4. ^ Simon Leo Brown (9 February 2018). "Folding umbrella's 'flirtatious' history never forgotten". ABC Radio Melbourne.
  5. ^ a b "Eva De Jong-Duldig". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. Cite error: The named reference "auto13" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  6. ^ Karl Duldig sculpture Bronze Editions Catalogue, Duldig Studio, 2021.
  7. ^ a b c d "To the other side of the world," National Fund of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism.
  8. ^ Harriet Edquist (26 March 2019). "Vienna Abroad: Viennese Interior Design in Australia 1940-1949". RMIT Design Archives Journal; Vol. 9, No. 1.
  9. ^ a b c Phil Mercer (29 April 2022). "Australian Musical Charts Family's Escape from Nazis in Europe". Voice of America.
  10. ^ "Eva De Jong-Duldig – Escape and survival through art". SBS Your Language. Retrieved 18 July 2018.
  11. ^ Helen., Kiddell (2011). The Duldig Studio : a history. Glen Iris, Vic.: Duldig Gallery. p. 5. ISBN 9780646537115. OCLC 748581760.
  12. ^ "Karl Duldig: A Retrospective". abc.net.au. 8 October 2003.
  13. ^ Miriam Cosic (April 29, 2022). "Melbourne’s newest musical a multi-generational European family saga," Plus61J.
  14. ^ a b c d e Gray, Chris (23 November 2018). "Meet Eva Duldig". Burwood Bulletin. Cite error: The named reference "auto11" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  15. ^ a b c "Koré". stonnington.vic.gov.au.
  16. ^ a b Elder, John (20 August 2011). "Faces from the past return to their rightful home at last". The Age.
  17. ^ Yeo Mang Thong (2019). Migration, Transmission, Localisation; Visual Art in Singapore (1866-1945)
  18. ^ Henry Benjamin (4 March 2013). "Times at Tatura". J-Wire.
  19. ^ Melinda Mockridge (2014). "Art behind the wire: the untold story of refugee families interned in Australia during the Second World War," Victorian History Library.
  20. ^ Ashley Browne, Dashiel Lawrence (2018). People of the Boot; The Triumphs and Tragedy of Australian Jews in Sport
  21. ^ Ken Scarlett (1980). Australian Sculptors
  22. ^ Eva De Jong-Duldig (2017). Driftwood; Escape and Survival Through Art
  23. ^ T. Schult (2009). A Hero’s Many Faces; Raoul Wallenberg in Contemporary Monuments
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  27. ^ Eva De Jong-Duldig (2017). Driftwood: Escape and Survival Through Art, Arcadia.
  28. ^ "Driftwood The Musical – A story on Eva de Jong-Duldig". Tennis Victoria. 28 March 2022.
  29. ^ "About". Driftwood – The Musical.
  30. ^ "Driftwood: a tale of love and survival and resilience". ABC Radio National. 24 April 2022.
  31. ^ Gocs, Danny (23 May 2022). "Home-grown Holocaust musical". The Australian Jewish News.
  32. ^ Patricia Maunder (23 May 2022). "Driftwood the Musical (Umbrella Productions) ★★★½". Limelight Magazine.
  33. ^ "Testimonials and Reviews". Driftwood – The Musical.
  34. ^ Evans, Kathy (15 March 2014). "Soprano on a mission; Can lyrics work with classical music? Tania de Jong is about to find out". The Sydney Morning Herald.
  35. ^ Jong-Duldig, Eva de (8 August 2022). "The wheel comes full circle; From one Maccabiah athlete to the next generation - remembering the special moments". Australian Jewish News.
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