• Title
  [Portrait of Magdalena Lollbach, wife of Johann Georg Lollbach], 1869 / watercolour by Conrad Wagner
• Creator
  Conrad Wagner, ca. 1818-1910
• Call number
  DG 415
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1869
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  446319
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 watercolour - 55 x 40 cm. - possibly over-painted photograph
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Magdalena Schliessman was born in 1812 at Kafertal in Germany. She married Johann Lollbach, a tailor, in 1835. They left Germany for Australia in 1852, where they were employed as general labourers and vine-dressers on Edward Ogilvies Yulgilbar station. Ogilvie had arranged with the Hamburg Consul in Sydney to recruit German workers, particularly vine-dressers, for his property. By 1860 the couple had settled permanently in the Grafton region, where they owned a property at Copmanhurst.
  
  Artist Conrad Wagner (ca. 1818- 1910) was born in Offenbach, Germany, and emigrated to Australia in the 1850s. From the early 1860s he worked as a painter and photographer at a studio in Prince Street, Grafton. Photographer, J. W. Lindt worked for him from 1863. Wagner enjoyed a high local reputation and always retained strong ties with the local German community.
  For further information on Wagner see ML DOC 866 and 'The Artist and the Patron' / by Patricia McDonald and Barry Pearce. Sydney, NSW : Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1988. Images also reproduced in 'Faces of Australia' / by Richard Neville. Sydney, NSW : State Library of NSW Press, 1992.
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955.
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Galleries, State Library of New South Wales
• Description source
  
  Titled supplied by family descendant Mrs H. Plowman, 1987. Portrait previously thought to be Mrs Jacob Lollbach, sister-in-law of Johann Georg Lollbach.
• General note
  
  This portrait forms a pair with DG 414.
  Digital order no:a928211
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Signed and dated "C. Wagner, 1869"
• Name
  Lollbach, Magdalena, b. 1812
  
• Subject
  Adult Females
  Portraits.
  
• Topic
  Germans
  wives
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Faces of Australia: image, reality and the portrait.
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3324409

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