Albert Namatjira Albert Namatjira Albert Namatjira (28 July 1902 – 8 August 1959), born Elea Namatjira, was a Western Arrernte-speaking Aboriginal artist from the MacDonnell Ranges in Central Australia. As a pioneer of contemporary Indigenous Australian art, he was the most famous Indigenous Australian of his generation. Born and raised at the Hermannsburg Lutheran Mission outside Alice Springs, Namatjira showed interest in art from an early age, but it was not until 1934 (aged 32), under the tutelage of Rex Battarbee, that he began to paint seriously. Namatjira's richly detailed, Western art-influenced watercolours of the outback departed significantly from the abstract designs
Albert Champion (cyclist) success was, that he was never satisfied...his mind was open to the necessity for constant improvement." Champion is buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris where he rests with his mother. In August 2015, Champion was enshrined as a life-size bronze statue in downtown Flint, part of the city's Back to the Bricks Automotive Pioneers Statute Project. <nowiki>http://velonews.competitor.com/2015/08/news/road/albert-champion-the-little-marvel_381413#aoP6wAWAqL8q7HdT.99</nowiki> He was inducted into the Waltham (Massachusetts) Hall of Fame and the Automotive Hall of Fame in 1977. Albert Champion (cyclist) Albert Champion (5 April 1878 Paris – 26 October 1927 Paris) was a French track bicycle racer who won the 1899