Title
Dora Ohlfsen as a nurse during the First World War with two wounded Italian soldiers
January 1916
Artist
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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Rome
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Italy
- Date
- January 1916
- Media category
- Photograph
- Materials used
- gelatin silver photograph
- Dimensions
- 18.0 x 12.5 cm image/sheet
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- National Art Archive. Gift of Dora Stanford 1995
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- ARC366.1.6
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Unknown
Works in the collection
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About
Italy joined the First World War on the side of the allies in 1916. Dora Ohlfsen wrote to an Australian niece around this time "in society there is nothing doing but first aid". She and her partner Elena von Kugelgen joined the many other women nursing with the Red Cross, first assisting during the Avezzano earthquake of 1915, which killed over 30,000 people. She also worked as a volunteer in the Italian Auxiliary Hospital opposite her studio, where there was a shortage of nurses. This photograph was probably taken there.
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Places
Where the work was made
Rome
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
Dora Ohlfsen and the facade commission, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 12 Oct 2019–08 Mar 2020
