NetsVictoria

Exhibitions

• Cut with the kitchen knife
• Dreamweavers
• Spirit in the Land
• Jus' Drawn: The proppaNOW collective
• Past Exhibitions
  • Mary and Max: The Exhibition
  • The Stony Rises Project
  • The Shilo Project
  • Simryn Gill: Inland
  • Other side art
  • Objects to Live By / The Art of John Meade
  • Hall of Mirrors
  • How you make it
  • Loop
  • Enchanted Forest
  • Murray Cod: The biggest fish in the river
    • Narelle Autio
    • Bluey Roberts
    • Clare Whitney
    • Ian Abdulla
    • Ludwig Becker
    • Arthur Bartholomew
    • Kurwingie Kerry Giles
    • Yvonne Koolmatrie
    • Rhyll Plant
    • Introduction
  • Come on the Scene
  • The world in painting
  • Walk

Ludwig Becker

Ludwig Becker was born in Darmstadt, Germany in 1808. He became Australia’s foremost exploration artist and embarked on the 1860 expedition with Burke and Wills. Becker meticulously documented his natural surroundings and a fine array of sketches of local marine and freshwater life is a testament to his dedicated eye. Ink and watercolour drawings of the Murray Cod made in the 1890s to be included in the exhibition, were a substitute for photographic records and although aesthetically appealing, were foremost valued for their ability to preserve empirical information.

The Artworks

Murray cod, Maccullochella peelii

c. 1858
Hand-coloured lithograph
150 x 240 mm
Museum Victoria