Heidelberg School Multi-Cache
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Alsume’s 4th cache is based on a famous Australian artist of the Heidelberg School, who has had the housing estate where this cache is located named after him.
In late 1888 he established an artists' camp at nearby Eaglemont, close to Heidelberg, from which the term Heidelberg School is derived.
He was mainly influenced by his fellow artists Tom Roberts, Frederick McCubbin and especially Charles Conder, since they shared his inclination for "plein air" painting. One of his famous paintings, “Near Heidelberg” (see photo) was painted in the summer of 1890, the last summer that he, Roberts and Conder were to spend together. In a sense this small painting, depicting the break-up after a picnic and a stroll back to civilization, is itself a farewell to a brief idyll, the bare eighteen months of the existence of the Heidelberg School – one of the most famous periods of Australian art.
At the first waypoint you will be in a park
in front of a plaque describing the official
opening of the housing estate.
ABCD= the year the housing estate was opened.
E= the number of letters in the surname of the MP who opened it.
F= the number of letters in the artist’s surname
The cache is a short walk away at
S 37º 43.(B-2)(A+E-D)(A+C-F)
E 145º 05.(C-F+E)(C-A)(F-A)
The cache is a small cylindrical container, about the size of 2 x 35mm film
containers, well disguised to blend into
its surroundings. It is suitable for only
the smallest of swaps. There is no pen, so please bring your own.
I amended the final coordinates and moved the cache location due to persistent muggle attacks on the cache contents, and again due to gardening having reduced the GZ area to bare earth.
The park also has a large resident population of ducks, cockatoos living in the hollow branches of the larger trees and a playground, so you may want to take some time to enjoy the surroundings and think some artistic thoughts.
If the Heidelberg School gives you inspiration, the originals of this and other paintings by the same artist, such as “The Purple Noon’s Transparent Might” can be found at NGV Australia, Ian Potter Centre at Federation Square. Oh, and there are some good caches near NGV as well.
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