Jens Hansen Lundager, Queensland
I følge familiens oplysninger er personen på billedet Ludolph Marcker fra Nexø. (Billederne har tilhørt Ludolph Marker.)
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Jens Hansen Lundager kaldte sig ”Landscape and Portrait Photographer” – portrætterne gav uden tvivl til dagen og vejen. Men han blev en værdsat fotograf i sit nye hjemland og han høstede anerkendelse for sine landskaber, som han bl.a. udstillede på ”The Colonial & Indian Exhibition” i London 1886, hvor han fik en bronzemedalje. Han producerede naturligvis også store mængder postkort.
Den bedste kilde til Lundagers liv (desværre uden eksempler på hans fotografiske arbejder) er Robert Ørsted-Jensen "The old war−horse" – om fynboen Jens Hansen Lundager. En dansk-australsk fotograf, pioner, socialist og arbejderpolitiker. Til historien om skandinavisk Australiens-udvandring i det 19. årh. Personalhistorisk tidsskrift 1996, nr. 1 s.12−22. Find mere HER eller på google, der er megen info på australske sider. Jens Hansen Lundager (born Jens Larsen Hansen), was born 4 May 1853 in Denmark. His parents were Hans Jensen and Else Andersdatter and he grew up in the city of Bogense. He last lived in the city of Fredericia where he had a photographic business under the name Jens Larsen Hansen (Lundager was the village his mother Else Andersdatter Jensen family came from, he took that name after he arrived in Australia).
He came to Australia to combat symptoms of TB, and arrived on board the Charles Dickens, from Hamburg to Rockhampton on 26 February 1879. He took over the studio of of French photographer Louis Buderus. He married fellow Dane Mathilde Helene Biltoft in Rockhampton on 12 April 1882 and together they raised a large family. He was naturalised in Rockhampton in 1883, and around 1884 he began travelling regularly from Rockhampton to Mt. Morgan to make portrait studies of the miners and their families. When his Rockhampton studio was burnt out around 1892, Lundager settled permanently with his family in Mt. Morgan. From 1892 until 1920 he was an important member of that community. He became a bookseller, journalist, Mayor, Trustee of the Technical College, Treasurer of the School of Arts and proprietor of the Argus newspaper. He also became a Freemason in 1884. He died 7 March 1930 in his home in Chatswood, Sydney NSW, and was buried at the Methodist Cemetery North Sydney. KILDE HER. |
Jens Hansen Lundager, Rockhampton, ca. 1882. KILDE HER.
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Guldgraverbyen Mount Morgan
Dansk fotograf i Queensland, Australien, fynboen Jens Hansen Lundager
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I Ludolph Marckers samling på Bornholms Museum (se HER) findes dette billede fra guldgraverbyen Mount Morgan, ca. 40 km syd for Rockhampton i
Queensland, fotograferet af Jens Hansen Lundager ca. 1900. Ludolph Marcker var født og døde i Nexø, og han var dansk konsul i Sydney 1904-1912. Mount Morgan blev grundlagt som guldmineby i 1882, og frem til minens lukning så sent som i 1981, er der blevet produceret enorme mængder guld, sølv og kobber. |
Ludolph Marcker havde selv været guldgraver i sine unge dage og købte, inden han forlod Australien i 1912, aktier i et andet mineselskab, ”THE ETTREMA MINES LIMITED” i New South Wales syd for Sydney. Han håbede at skaffe kapital til udnyttelse af minen i Danmark - men Første Verdenskrig kom på tværs og Marcker kom aldrig til at gense Australien.
Man kan bladre i mere end 100 arbejder fra fotografen Lundagers kamera i National Library of Australia’s digitale ”Picture Australia” website: HER Læs mere om Ludolph Marcker i ”Bornholms Museum Bornholms Kunstmuseum” 2002-2003 og 2004-2005. |
Mount Morgan Gold Mine, Western Australia c. 1898. J.H. Lundager, mål ca. 10x15 cm. Albumin. (Kilde liveauctioneers.com).