Fine Art Photographs of Victoria by Fred Kruger

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Fred Kruger (1831-1888), Fine Art Photographs of Victoria, Australia - Fred Kruger, Gold Medallist, A fine leather bound album with gold embossed titles to front cover containing a collection of 67 albumen photographic prints, the subjects include Ballarat scenes, Black Hill Gold Mine, The Orphan Asylum, Band & Albion Gold Mine, Kruger achieved international recognition for his landscape photography, including medals from both the 1872 Vienna Exhibition and the 876 Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition. He became the first photographer to take group photos of the first Aboriginal cricket team in 1866, which became one of his most recognised images, and was subsequently commissioned in 1877 by the Aboriginal Protection Board to create a collection of work including portraits of the Aborigines at the Coranderrk Aboriginal Mission Station, which was made public in 1883. Kruger won more awards, a gold medal for the best collection of landscape views and another, for the best panoramic view of Geelong, at the Geelong Industrial and Juvenile Exhibition in 1879., each 13 x 25 cm average. Notes: Fred Kruger was born in Berlin in 1831 and immigrated to Australia with his wife and son in the early 1860's. In 1866 Kruger registered his photography business in Carlton, Melbourne before shifting to Prahran and then Preston. In the same year, he became the first photographer to take group photos of the first Aboriginal cricket team. It was during this time that Kruger gained international recognition for his photography, particularly his images depicting the Victorian landscape and he consequently won medals from both the 1872 Vienna Exhibition, the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition and the 1880 Melbourne International Exhibition. In 2012 an extensive exhibition, Fred Kruger: Intimate Landscapes was held at the Ian Potter Centre at the National Gallery of Victoria.

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Victorian Period - The Victorian period of furniture and decorative arts design covers the reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1901. There was not one dominant style of furniture in the Victorian period. Designers used and modified many historical styles such as Gothic, Tudor, Elizabethan, English Rococo, Neoclassical and others, although use of some styles, such as English Rococo and Gothic tended to dominate the furniture manufacture of the period.

The Victorian period was preceded by the Regency and William IV periods, and followed by the Edwardian period, named for Edward VII (1841 ? 1910) who was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India for the brief period from 1901 until his death in 1910.
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