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MACK JOST AM |
| The Mack Jost Collection |
The Mack Jost Collection forms the basis of HRAG’s collection of Australian paintings, drawing and prints. |
Mack Jost was born in Horsham on 15 July 1918. He studied at the University of Melbourne where he attained a BA (Music) and Diploma of the Master School of Music. In 1949 he was appointed Chief Study Teacher at the University, and in 1962 went on to become Senior Lecturer in Pianoforte. |
| He gave recitals in London, Paris, Berlin, Moscow, Amsterdam, Vienna, Stockholm, Athens and Istanbul. He presented more than 300 programs for the ABC as soloist and chamber music player over 35 years. In 1969 he was invited to the Soviet Union, the first of four such visits. He played 25 concertos with British and Australian orchestras. His repertoire included romantic and post-romantic composers, most notably Chopin, Rachmaninoff and Scriabin. He was only the second Australian-born pianist to publicly perform Bach's Goldberg Variations.
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In 1980 Mack Jost approached Horsham City Council offering to bequest his art collection to the local Gallery. In 1981 the public response to a trial exhibition drawn from his collection was overwhelming and the City Council accepted his generous offer. To comply with conditions of the gift a larger space for the Gallery was allocated in the former Municipal offices in Wilson Street. |
Mack Jost made his first outright gift of artworks in 1983. From 1986 he made an annual donation of works before sadly passing away on 15 September 2000. Mr Mack Jost AM is recognised as the Gallery’s most significant individual donor to date with his early gifting followed by a generous bequest.
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| Image: Rupert BUNNY, The Bathers (detail), nd, oil on board, gift of Mack Jost, through the Government's Cultural Gifts Program, 1990. |
Mack Jost
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ABN 37 019 724 765 |