Wolfgang Sievers

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Wolfgang Sievers (1913 - ) is an Australian photographer who specialised in architectural and industrial photography.

Sievers was born in Berlin, Germany. He studied at the Contempora School for the Applied Arts in Berlin (an off shoot of the famous Bauhaus School). In Berlin he took architectural photographs for his father's books on Berlin's historical buildings. After a period spent in Portugal he immigrated to Australia in 1938.

In Australia, Sievers opened a studio in Melbourne. His clients included Alcoa, Australia Pulp and Paper Manufacturers, Comalco, Hamersley Iron, John Holland, John Lysaght, Shell and Vickers Ruwolt. He also received commissions from architectural firms including Bates, Smart and McCutcheon, Hassall & McConnell, Leith & Bartlett, Winston Hall, and Yuncken and Freeman. In the 1950s, Sievers was engaged by the then Department of Overseas Trade with a brief to change Australia's image from a land of sheep and wool to an image of a sophisticated industrial and manufacturing nation.