DRAWINGS: 'FROM THE SWAN RIVER' OTTO LIPFERT
Pencil sketches by Otto Lipfert of trees growing on the bank of the Swan River, Western Australia.
Front: Titled "From the Swan River (18)93".
Inside: More trees are sketched on the inside right page.
Reverse: The poem or song "Sweetest Love" is copied on the back in ink.
Items 90.205-8 are a series of pencil sketches by Otto Lipfert, who migrated from Germany to Australia in 1893. These sketches (90.208 a,b) appear to be some of his first impressions of the Swan River in Western Australia. The Lipfert family home was at 270 York Street, Subiaco. Miss Gertrude Lipfert lived in the family home at 270 York Street, Subiaco until her death in 1989. Daughter of Otto Lipfert, taxidermist at WA Museum. Otto Lipfert was born in Germany in 1864 .. He trained and worked there as a furrier, but he developed a keen interest in nature and the animal species that were exciting Europeans in Australia. On hearing there was no taxidermist in Western Australia he migrated in 1892, making the voyage in a British ship so that he could learn English on the way.
In 1894 he became the first taxidermist to work for the Western Australian Museum. He made his first collecting trip—to the Abrolhos Islands—that spring.
Lipfert was naturalised in 1900. In 1902 he married German-born Anna Struck at the German club in Perth. The couple built a house at 270 York St (formerly Gibney Street), Subiaco, where members of the Lipfert family lived until 1989. Three daughters: Gertrude, Minna (died in 1959) and Elsa. Otto died in Perth in 1942. Anna died in 1967. (90.203)
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Otto Lipfert
Artist Lotto Lipfert migrated from Germany to Australia in 1893
Other items by Otto Lipfert
Other items from Subiaco Museum
- DRAWING: 'LION' OTTO LIPFERT
- PURFUME BOTTLE
- POWDER PUFF WITH CROCHETED COVER, LIPFERT
- MEDAL: AWARDED TO JACK NEWMAN
- HAT PIN: RED, LIPFERT FAMILY
- MEDAL: COMMEMORATING CORONATION KING GEORGE V WITH RIBBON
- MEDAL: COMMEMORATING 'PEACE', 1919
- NAIL CUTTER, LIPFERT
- NAIL CUTTER, LIPFERT
- BROOCH: IVORY ELEPHANTS
- CURLING TONGS
- PUMICE, LIPFERT FAMILY
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