Dave Dallwitz

David Friedrich Dallwitz (25 October 1914 – 24 March 2003) was a South Australian jazz and classical musician, bandleader, composer, painter, and art teacher whose work spanned almost seven decades. He led jazz, Dixieland, and ragtime bands, and performed with classical chamber music groups.

Biography Dallwitz was born in Freeling, South Australia.

Music career He led the Southern Jazz Group, a Dixieland band that performed at the first Australian Jazz Convention. He abandoned jazz for a period,

Dallwitz died on 24 March 2003 in Adelaide, He was involved in the formation in 1942 of the South Australian branch of the Contemporary Art Society, which identified with progressive modes of art, becoming its foundation chairman.

Dallwitz taught technical drawing subjects (drafting, dimensioned sketching, lettering) at Thebarton Boys Technical School (known as ‘Thebbie Tech’). He taught at Adelaide Technical High School from around 1954 to 1964, where he introduced painting, drawing and history of art to replace the old technical drawing subjects. He then lectured in Art History and drawing at the School of Art until 1974. and the same year a plaque bearing his name was installed on North Terrace, Adelaide as part of the Jubilee 150 celebrations. In 1994 he was honoured by a retrospective exhibition at the Art Gallery of South Australia. His work hangs in the Art Gallery of South Australia and the National Gallery of Australia and the University of South Australia.

Partial discography As leader Melbourne Suite (Swaggie, 1973) Ern Malley Suite (Swaggie, 1975) Creation Suite: In the Beginning Ragtime Fantasy No. 4

As composer Ned Kelly Suite: Dawn over Euroa – Bob Barnard