Hans Heysen, German-Australian painter (d. 1968)
Sir Hans Heysen (8 October 1877 – 2 July 1968) was a German-born Australian artist. He became a household name for his watercolours of monumental Australian gum trees. He is one of Australia's best known landscape painters. Heysen also produced images of men and animals toiling in the Australian bush, as well as groundbreaking depictions of arid landscapes in the Flinders Ranges. He won the Wynne Prize for landscape painting a record nine times.
1877Oct, 8
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Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record and play sound. - 29Nov
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Thomas Edison demonstrates his phonograph for the first time.