Elioth Gruner

Elioth Lauritz Leganyer Gruner, early anglicised from Grner , was an Australian painter, winner of the Wynne Prize seven times.

Gruner was born in Gisborne, New Zealand, younger son of Elliott Grner, a Norwegianborn bailiff, and his Irish wife Mary Ann, who died in 1922. Gruner was brought to Sydney before he was a year old and at an early age showed a desire to draw. When aboutyears old his mother took him to Julian Ashton, who gave him his first lessons in art. Atyears of age he obtained a position in a shop where he worked from 7.40 a.m. to 9.30 p.m. to help to maintain the household after his father and older brother died.

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