Wenten Rubuntja

Wenten Rubuntja (* 1923 in Burt Creek to Alice Springs in the Northern Territory; † 3 July 2005 at the hospital in Alice Springs ) was an Aboriginal tribe from the Arrernte and painter of the so-called Hermannsburg School, which with landscape watercolors in the 1930s years to draw attention to themselves. The best known representative of this art movement was next Rubuntja Albert Namatjira, with whose father Old Albert Namatjira he was related. Rubuntja was not only a painter but an activist for the rights of Aboriginal people.

Life

He painted as a child. During the Second World War, Rubuntja earned his living as a kangaroo hunter for the Australian Army. After that, he had several jobs in livestock stations, for example, drovers and cooking.

She was married to Cynthia Perrurle since the mid- 1950s. Rubuntja fought for the land rights of Aboriginal people and to protect their ceremonial places in the Northern Territory. In 1976, he led a march of more than a thousand Aborigines by Alice Springs to demonstrate for the land Rights Act by the Australian government of Malcolm Fraser and led a tour through Australia to continue to put pressure on the government. He was the chairman of the Central Land Council in the years of 1976-1980 and 1985-1988.

He promoted the knowledge of Aboriginal culture by the young generation by non - Aboriginal way of life and rights, political understanding, the economy and dealing with the nature of Aboriginal taught. He felt the need to Aboriginal and non - Aboriginal understand each other: " We can not drop in the power to the other Law. They can not change our law, our side, and we can not change Their side, or we will break our law again, and they'll break Their Law [ ... ] The Dreaming is really all over Australia.. We must teach the white fellas " ( German: We do not fall under the force of the laws of the other you can not change our right, and we do not her, or we break our back and they break their right [ ... ] The. Dreamtime is everywhere in Australia. We need the whites teach this.)

In addition, he founded numerous organization for the Aborigines in Alice Springs in his last 30 years of life.

Work

Rubuntja, and later the first painted with water colors with acrylic paints, had a liberal view as a painter: "Does not matter what sort of painting we do in this country, it still belongs to the people, all the people. This is worship, work, culture. It's all Dreaming. There are two ways of painting. Both ways are important, Because that's culture. " ( German: ". . It does not matter what kind of painting we operate in this country, it still belongs to the people, to all people, it is worship, work, culture, it is everything Dreamtime. There are two types of painting. Both are important because they are culture. " ) He painted naturalistically under the influence of the Hermannsburg School, and changed his style later to dot painting.

His works, which have received international recognition, are located in the Australian Parliament House and in other collections. His autobiography The Town Grew Up Dancing: The Life and Art of W. .... Rubuntja came out in 2002.