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Medal - ANZAC Remembrance, Dora Ohlfsen, Australia, 1919
Reg. No: NU 35371
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- Summary:
- Australia
ANZAC Rememberance 1914 - 1918
Artist Dora Ohlfsen1918 (AD)
Mint: not recorded
Other Details: This medal was produced and sold to raise funds for of Australians and New Zealanders maimed in World War One. Artist Dora Ohlfsen features a fallen soldier being comforted by a female 'Australia'. Dora Ohlfsen was one of Australia's foremost medallists in the first half of the twentieth century, although she principally lived in Europe and was better appreciated outside Australia. This medal is one of the most remarkable of all Australian commemorative medals. Its sensitive, romantic treatment of its subjects recalls European, and particularly French, medallic art. It was made at the artist's expense. She had worked as a nurse for the Red Cross in Italy during World War I, and was deeply moved by the experience. - Acquisition Information:
- Transfer from National Gallery of Victoria (NGV), 1976
| Discipline: | Numismatics |
| Weight: | 91.61 g (Weight) |
More information
| Tagged with: | wars conflicts, world war i 1914-1918, lesbian gay, art medals |
| Themes this item is part of: | Dora Ohlfsen, Artist & Medallist (1877-1948), Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Project, Museum Victoria, 2005-2006, Public Life & Institutions Collection |
| Primary Classification: | MEDALS |
| Secondary Classification: | Commemorative |
| Tertiary Classification: | military history |
| Series: | Australian Commemorative Medals |
| DateEra: | 1919 AD |
| Obverse Description: | Woman, representing Australia, mourning a young man, laurel branch in the foreground artist's name DORA OHLFSEN 1918 struck half off the flan below the soldier |
| Reverse Description: | ANZAC/IN ETERNAL/REMEMBRANCE./1914-18./DORA OHLFSEN Outline of a soldier with gun |
| Edge Description: | Plain |
| Shape: | round |
| Material: | Bronze |
| Artist: | Dora Ohlfsen, Australia, 1918 |
| Date Made: | Australia, 1919 |
| References: |
Car. 1914-18/1 in original blue case with card that reads AMNZAC MEDAL / DESIGNED BY DORA OLFSEN / IN AID OF AUSTRALIANS / AND NEW ZEALANDERS / MAIMED IN THE WAR |
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