George Joseph Victor Baldessin b. 1939

Also known as George Baldessin
  • Artist (Sculptor),
  • Artist (Printmaker)
Widely travelled, Baldessin honed his art through formal training and collaborative projects. He was a highly respected printmaker who studied at the Chelsea School of Art in London before teaching in the printmaking department at RMIT in Melbourne. In 1975 he was represented in the Bienal de Sao Paulo in Brazil and despite his premature death in a car accident at the age of 39, he is well represe

Citations

  • Lindsay, Robert & Holloway, Memory (1983), 'George Baldessin: Sculpture and etchings’, National Gallery of Victoria catalogue, Melbourne, Vic.

  • (1969), 'The graphic work of George Baldessin’, Paddington, NSW: Art & Australia, 02-07.

  • McCulloch, A. (1984), 'Encyclopedia of Australian Art’, Melbourne, Vic. 2nd edition.

  • Palmer, Roger (1993), 'George Baldessin in Retrospect: The artist his art and times’, North Melbourne, Vic.: Imprint, issue 28/3, Spring, pp. 19-21.

  • Plant, Margaret (1969), 'Baldessin’s Performer’, North Melbourne, Vic.: Imprint 3, p.2.

  • Ryan, Anne (2000), Art Gallery of New South Wales catalogue, Sydney, NSW.

  • Zimmer, Jenny, Australian Dictionary of Biography, Melbourne, Vic., vol. 13.

  • (1979), '(Obituary)’, Paddington, NSW: Art & Australia, 03-16.

Initial data sources

  • Black and white artists