Ka sami Victor Fyers Mann

Gother Victor Fyers Mann CBE (1863– 1948), wanda aka fi sani da GVF Mann, ƙwararren mai zane ne na ƙasar Australiya, mai zane kuma Daraktan Gallery.

 Rayuwa 
An haifi Mann a Sydney a ranar 8 ga Oktoba, 1863. Shi ne ɗa na huɗu na mai binciken John Frederick Mann da matarsa Camilla Victoria, 'yar Sir Thomas Mitchell. Ya yi aiki a matsayin mai zane Thomas Rowe kuma ya zaɓi mataimakin Cibiyar Zane-zane ta New South Wales a 1886. Daga 1888 zuwa 1891 ya yi aiki a Brisbane tare da haɗin gwiwar EJF Crawford. 

Mann kwararren mai zane ne kuma a kusa da shekarar 1885 ya halarci azuzuwan gine-gine a ƙarƙashin Julian Ashton. Ya ci gaba da bin diddigin aikinsa na gine-gine lokacin da ya koma Sydney, yana kafa aikinsa a Titin Bridge, amma ya ci gaba da karatun fasaha a ƙarƙashin Tom Roberts da Arthur Streeton.[1] A tsakiyar shekarun 1890s ya zama sakataren ƙungiyar fasaha ta New South Wales kuma a ranar 3 ga Afrilu 1902 ya auri Mabel Beatrice, 'yar mai ɗaukar hoto J. Hubert Newman. Suna zaune a Neutral Bay.[2]

A shekara ta 1905, an naɗa Mann sakatare kuma babban jami'in kula da Hotunan Fasaha na Ƙasa na New South Wales, kuma daga shekara ta 1912 zuwa 1928 shi ne Daraktan Gallery. Ya shirya wani muhimmin baje kolin zane-zane na Australiya a shekara ta 1918, sannan ya ziyarci Turai a shekara ta 1914 da 1926 don siyan kayan.  Ya kasance shugaban Hukumar Ba da Shawara kan Fasaha ta Commonwealth daga 1918–1948, wanda aka kafa don ba da shawara ga Kwamitin Tunawa da Tarihi; wanda daga 1914, bisa ga umarnin Mann, ya fara samun tushen tarin kayan ƙasa. 

 Manazarta 
Richard Haese, Mann, Gother Victor Fyers, Australian Dictionary of Biography Online, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, published first in hardcopy 1986, accessed online 9 April 2020