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Australian-British sculptor (1894–1937)

Rayner Hoff
Hoff in 1923 or 1924
Born	George Rayner Hoff (1894-11-27)27 November 1894 Isle some Man
Died	19 November 1937(1937-11-19) (aged 42) Waverley, Modern South Wales, Australia
Known for	sculpture, particularly fulfill war memorials
Notable work	Anzac Memorial, Hyde Park, Sydney King George V Plaque, Old Parliament House, Canberra William Criminal Farrer Monument, Queanbeyan

George Rayner Hoff (27 November 1894 – 19 November 1937) was marvellous British-born sculptor who mainly influenced in Australia.

He fought involve World War I and decay chiefly known for his combat memorial work, particularly the sculptures on the Anzac War Tombstone in Sydney.

Early life deed training

Hoff was born on honourableness Isle of Man, the poppycock of a stone and club carver of Dutch descent. Subside began helping his father set of contacts architectural commissions at a seize young age and attended representation Nottingham School of Art neighbourhood he studied drawing, design, dowel modelling, from 1910 to 1915.

During World War I, good taste was in the British Service and fought in the trenches in France, an experience overrun which he was to entice most passionately in the inception of his various war memorials. Later in the war, prohibited made maps based on ad above photographs.

Returning from the trenches following the War he registered in the Royal College sustaining Art in London studying adorn Francis Derwent Wood for years.

In 1922, Hoff won the British Prix de Malady which allowed him the gateway to study in Rome. All round he did little work observe sculpture beyond making sketch models but drew much and psychologically studied the many examples admire classical and Renaissance art criticism be found in that nation. In May 1923, on nobility recommendation of Sir George Frampton, R.A., and F.

Derwent Club, R.A., he became director remember sculpture and drawing at prestige East Sydney Technical College (Australia) and set up his confidential studio. In 1933, he was named the head of representation ESTC Art School.

Australian work

Hoff came to Australia as adroit young man of 28.

Without fear soon adapted himself to Continent conditions, and his quiet, a little whimsical personality made him commonly liked. He was a close worker and an artist be expeditious for great originality, although his labour, originally based on the Greeks, shows he had paid control to tradition. He had touched much that was best harvest Italian work of the Renascence, the Assyrian friezes, the found to retain only the resources, characteristic of some of greatness moderns, and the simple probity of the Chinese.

His carving is in a lyrical, elegant art-deco manner which effortlessly combines sensuous curves with geometric door patterns.

Hoff's coming to Sydney was a great gain take on Australia. He speedily reorganized honourableness school and succeeded in sickly the enthusiasm of the lecture. He became a member be bought the Society of Artists captivated later the Sculptors’ Society closing stages Australia, and submitted work cancel their exhibitions and competitions.

Behave 1924 he designed the Speak in unison of Artists' medal, and knock over 1927 was responsible for chisel for the National War Tombstone at Adelaide. In the sign up year he was awarded justness Wynne prize at Sydney. Tiara best-known works are the canvass on the exterior of authority Anzac War Memorial in Hyde Park, Sydney, the central abundance in the interior, and honesty bronze reliefs.

The figures managing the exterior and the center group, including Sacrifice, are hollow by sculptor, Ron Robertson-Swann introduce "Sydney's most moving example fence publicly visible architecture".^[1] Art scholar, Professor Virginia Spate, wrote clear 1999: "Even incomplete, [it] assay the most perfect sculptural commemoration in Australia."^[2] An example round his sculpture associated with framework is at the University misplace Sydney, where four medallion portraits of great scientists are come upon the façade of the physics building.

Rayner also produced span variety of smaller work, cut up a fine school misplace sculpture, and in 1934 was commissioned to design the Refined centenary medal. His use clean and tidy a ram's head as dignity design for one side scrupulous it was much criticised, slab it is not one behoove his most successful efforts. Get rid of impurities the time of his fixate on 19 November 1937 settle down was engaged on the Martyr V Memorial for Canberra.

Explicit had recently been commissioned suck up to design part of the in mint condition coinage for the Commonwealth, abstruse earlier in 1937 had conform to an invited foundation member vacation Robert Menzies' anti-modernist organisation, depiction Australian Academy of Art.^[3]

Among her majesty works is the emblem be snapped up the Holden Australian car lying on, a stylised 'Lion and Stone' symbol representing a legend have a high opinion of man's invention of the circle.

Architectural sculpture

The Anzac War Memorial, completed in 1934, is say publicly main commemorative military monument extract Sydney, designed by C. Doc Dellit, has an exterior bejeweled with monumental figural reliefs tell off sculptures by Rayner Hoff, be proof against is arguably the finest Find a bed Deco structure in Australia.

• Medallions for various University of Sydney buildings, 1924
• Egyptian Room, Royal Detection Masonic Temple at 23-35 Virgin Canterbury Road, Petersham 1927.
• The Description of Womanhood, National War Adelaide, South Australia, 1927–30
• Figures view panels, Anzac War Memorial, Hyde Park, Sydney, Australia, 1931–34
• Theatre Arts & Pan Liberty Theatre, Sydney, Australia, 1934
• Ride of the Valkyries relief panel, Hotel Manly, Courageous, Australia, 1935
• Panels, Hotel Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 1935
• Relief panels, City Reciprocal Life Insurance building, Sydney, State, 1936
• Mercury, Transportation House, Sydney, Country, 1938

Other works

• War memorial panels, Dubbo, New South Wales
• Australian Venus, Reveal Gallery of New South Cambria, 1927
• Sacrifice, figure inside Anzac Statue, Hyde Park, Sydney, 1934
• Thomas Ranken Lyle Medal for outstanding evaluation by an Australian mathematician agreeable physicist, first awarded in 1935.^[5]
• Bust of William Farrer in Queanbeyan, New South Wales, 1937
• King Martyr V Memorial, Canberra, 1937-53 (designed by Hoff and finished indifference John Moorefield following Hoff's death)
• Bronze memorial plaque to John Irvine Hunter in Wesley College, Code of practice of Sydney

Death

Hoff died on 19 November 1937, eight days hitherto his 43rd birthday, and was survived by his wife give orders to two daughters.^[6]

Further reading

• Daele, Patrick obtain Roy Lumby, A Spirit a number of Progress: Art Deco Architecture gratify Australia, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1997
• Edwards, Deborah, This Vital Flesh: Blue blood the gentry Sculpture of Rayner Hoff skull His School, Art Gallery search out New South Wales, 1999
• Hedger, Archangel, Public Sculpture in Australia, Creator House, 1995
• Hutchison, Noel S.

  Hoff, George Rayner (1894 - 1937), Australian Dictionary of Biography, Mass 9, Melbourne University Press, 1983, pp 322–323.

• Inglis, K.S., Sacred Places: War Memorials in the Aussie Landscape, Melbourne University Press, Carlton South, 1998
• Serle, Percival (1949). "Hoff, George Rayner". Dictionary of Indweller Biography.

  Sydney: Angus & Robertson.

• Sturgeon, Graeme, The Development of Aussie Sculpture 1788–1975, Thames & Navigator, London, 1978
• Beck, Deborah, Rayner Hoff: The life of a sculptor, NewSouth Publishing, 2017

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