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Noel Counihan was born on 4 October, 1913 in Albert Park, Melbourne, is an A 20th-century australian painter. Discover Noel Counihan's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 72 years old?

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Age 72 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born 4 October, 1913
Birthday 4 October
Birthplace Albert Park, Melbourne
Date of death 5 July, 1986
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Nationality Australia

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1913

Noel Counihan (4 October 1913 – 5 July 1986) was an Australian social realist painter, printmaker, cartoonist and illustrator active in the 1940s and 1950s in Melbourne.

An atheist, communist, and art activist, Counihan made art in response to the politics and social hardships of his times.

He is regarded as one of Australia's major artists of the 20th century.

Counihan was born on 4 October 1913 in Albert Park, then a working-class suburb of Melbourne.

1929

He attended the St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne Choir school (closed in 1929), then Caulfield Grammar School in 1928.

1930

He studied part-time under Charles Wheeler at the National Gallery of Victoria Art School in Melbourne during 1930–31, where he met the social realists Herbert McClintock and Roy Dalgarno.

1931

Social realism, the belief that art should reflect the realities of society under capitalism, was the artistic doctrine of the Communist Party of Australia, and in 1931 Counihan became a confirmed atheist and a member of the Party.

He helped found the Workers Art Guild, and began printmaking, producing linocuts and lithographs for Communist magazine covers and pamphlets as well as designing banners.

During the Great Depression Counihan participated in the "free speech" fights in Brunswick, organised by the Communist Party in response to a Victorian state government law banning "subversive" gatherings.

Dozens of members of the Unemployed Workers Movement were arrested, and unemployed meetings at the intersection of Phoenix Street and Sydney Road, Brunswick were dispersed by police.

As part of this fight, a young Counihan addressed a crowd from a locked cage on top a truck.

Police had to cut him out, to the jeers of the crowd, as he continued speaking.

1933

A short distance away from the Gallery, outside the Brunswick Mechanics Institute on Sydney Road, a Free Speech memorial has been built by artist Simon Perry to commemorate the free speech fights by the unemployed in 1933 and Noel Counihan's part in them.

1934

From 1934 Counihan worked as a cartoonist for various publications, including The Bulletin and the Communist Party's paper, the Guardian from 1945 to 1949 and again from 1952 to 1958.

He spent extended periods in hospital with tuberculosis during the Second World War.

With the encouragement of the artist Yosl Bergner, he began to paint.

He developed a personal style based on the social realist approach, producing compassionate images of workers and their working lives.

Counihan maintained that the artist had a duty to "gather information from the political developments of the time."

1955

His 1955 painting On Parliament Steps won the George Crouch Memorial Prize in 1956.

1970

Counihan remained loyal to the Communist Party during its various splits and despite its declining support in the 1970s and 1980s.

1973

His 1973 posthumous portrait of Hugh Gemmell Lamb-Smith – who had taught Counihan at Caulfield Grammar and, as well, had encouraged his artistic endeavours whilst he was there – largely painted from memory, and commissioned by the Caulfield Grammarians' Association, is on permanent display within the school's "Cripps Centre" on its Caulfield Campus.

1979

In 1979, Counihan contributed the entry on footballer Roy Cazaly to Volume 7 of the Australian Dictionary of Biography.

1986

On 5 July 1986, Counihan died in Melbourne aged 72.

The Counihan Gallery, managed by City of Merri-bek Council, is named in his honour.

To mark its tenth anniversary, Edwina Bartlem curated an exhibition in which contemporary artists created works inspired by the art and ideas of Counihan.

The artists included George Gittoes and Angela Cavalieri.