Wolfgang Sievers (born 1913, Germany; arrived Australia 1938; died 2007, Australia) trained at a private art school in Berlin, where he was steeped in Modernist ideals of social progress through functional design. He fled Nazi Germany in 1937 and migrated to Australia, establishing a studio in Melbourne that specialised in industrial and architectural photography. He is most well-known for documenting Australian industry during the post-war period in a way that celebrates the relationship between man and machine. He is part of a generation of émigré artists and intellectuals that enriched Australian culture with their European training and cosmopolitan values.

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