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HANS HEYSEN'S STUDIO

In 1913, Australian artist Sir Hans Heysen designed a purpose built artist studio on his property, The Cedars at Hahndorf in the Adelaide Hills.

Heysen painted only by daylight supplied by a wall of windows. 'Heysen's works always look best in daylight' [1]

Considered one of the six best studios of 20th Century Artists by travel writer Steve Meacham as it has been preserved just as Hans left it.

The first painting produced in the studio was considered a triumph. Red Gold

was previewed before its exhibition at Adelaide's Annual Federal Exhibition in November 1913 by The Advertiser "an ambitious picture of real excellence..'

It was in this studio that Heysen painted for the rest of his life surrounded by the gum trees which were often the subject of his art, trees which remain to this day.

Hans Heysen