The artists documented in issue 38/2023 of the 'Zeitschrift für Australienstudien Australian Studies Journal' have left behind images of indigenous Australians that are generally recognised as at least less corrupt, if not outright empathetic. The fact that they are nevertheless not free from the social circumstances of their creation is shown by the studies of Jane Lydon on Carl Walter, Susan Woodburn on Alexander Schramm, Ruth Virginia Pullin on Eugen von Guérard and Wulf D. Hund and Stefanie Affeldt's paper on Ludwig Becker.