Thursday 13 August 2015


Albert Namatjira's timeline

1902: was born
1905: received into the Lutheran Church
1915: spent six months in the bush
1920: married 
1923: shifted to Hermannsburg 
1936: accompanied Battarbee as a cameleer
1939: held his first solo exhibition 
1944: included in Who's Who in Australia
1953: awarded Queen Elizabeth II's coronation medal 
1954: presented to the Queen in Canberra
1955: elected an honorary member of the Royal Art Society of New South Wales 
1957: was granted the citizenship 
1958: was charged with supplying alcohol
1959: died

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