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A famous aboriginal artist was Albert Namatjira.
Yes. The most famous aboriginal artist was Albert Namatjira.
He is most well known as a painter.
This was Albert Namatjira. Namatjira was famous for his Australian landscapes, especially of the region of the western MacDonnell Ranges.
Albert Namatjira was the Aboriginal painter famous for his watercolour paintings. He was born Elea Namatjira on 28 July 1902, into the Arrernte tribe of the Northern Territory. Namatjira was raised at the Lutheran mission school, Hermannsburg, near Alice Springs. In his early years, he learned to paint in non-traditional style, but his experience in European watercolour style was gained from painter Rex Batterbee. Namatjira held his first exhibition in Melbourne in 1938, and his work was completely sold out.
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Albert Namatjira was famous for his paintings of central Australia, particularly around the Macdonnell Ranges and the central desert.
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Albert Namatjira was an indigenous Australian (Aborigine) from Central Australia, who was famous nationally and internationally for his unique art. Namatjira's style was in European watercolours, and he was known for his unique desert landscapes, especially on the Western MacDonnell Ranges, with their striking detail and earthy colours. Namatjira was also the first Australian Aborigine to be granted Australian citizenship in 1957, ten years before Australian citizenship was offered to all Aborigines. Interestingly, as an Australian Aborigine, he did not have the right to own land or to build a house until the law was changed. Also as an aboriginal citizen within a white society, his children remained wards of the state and if he wanted to build a house himself in Alice Springs they were not permnitted to stay with him, Namatjira died in August 1959 of Heart disease. His son Keith Namatjira also paints.
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