How we tracked down the only known sculpture of a WWI Indigenous soldier
- Written by Tom Murray, Senior Lecturer and former ARC DECRA Fellow in Screen Media, Macquarie University
Rupert O’Flynn with Rudolf Marcuse’s bronze bust of Douglas Grant, December 2016. Photograph courtesy Tom Murray.
Germany, 1918. Wünsdorf prisoner-of-war camp, not far from Berlin. An Australian Indigenous POW, Douglas Grant, sits as a model for a portrait bust by a German Jewish sculptor, Rudolf Marcuse.
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