Installation view ‘Shaken To His Core: The Untold Story Of Nolan’s Auschwitz’ at Sydney Jewish Museum. Photo ArtsHub.
As an artist, Sidney Nolan helped shaped the Australian consciousness through his images, from his stylised portraits of Ned Kelly to his bush landscapes. However, few know that Nolan was commissioned as an artist to cover the trial of the Nazi Adolf Eichmann in late 1961.
Eichmann was a pivotal architect in the design and implementation of the ‘Final Solution’, streamlining the transportation and industrialised extermination of Jews and other minorities via camps such as Auschwitz.
Gina Fairley is ArtsHub's Senior Contributor, after 12 years in the role as National Visual Arts Editor. She has worked for extended periods in America and Southeast Asia, as gallerist, arts administrator and regional contributing editor for a number of magazines, including Hong Kong based Asian Art News and World Sculpture News. She is an Art Tour leader for the AGNSW Members, and lectures regularly on the state of the arts. She is based in Mittagong, regional NSW.
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