High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Albert Namatjira (28 July 1902 – 8 August 1959), born Elea Namatjira, was an Australian artist. He was a Western Arrernte man, an Indigenous Australian of the Western MacDonnell Ranges area. Albert Namatjira is perhaps Australia`s best known Aboriginal painter, with his work forming one of the foundations of contemporary Indigenous Australian art.