Henry Salkauskas b. 1925

Also known as Henrikas Salkauskas
  • Artist (Printmaker),
  • Artist (Painter)
Henry Salkauskas. originally Henrikas Salkauskas was one of the generation of post World War II immigrant artists who had a profound and lasting impact on Australian art.
Tags: Lithuanian diaspora, Sydney abstract art, Printmaking
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Henry Salkauskas was born Henrikus Salkauskas in Lithuania in 1925. As with most of his generation he was caught in the turmoil of Wolrd War II. After the war he began to study art, first at the L’Ecole des Arts et Metiers in Paris and then at the Freiburg university from 1946-49, the year he came to Australia.
In Sydney he found it hard to make a living as an artist, so he turned to house painting, a trade that was more easily understood by the locals. Nevertheless he found a sympathetic artistic community in Sydney in the circle around the Contemporary Art Society. He exhibited widely, and encouraged others to be involved in his long term interest of printmaking. When he died suddenly in 1979, his friend and colleague Nancy Borlase wrote of how she would miss 'the big, blond, amiable Lithuanian’.

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Date written:
1999
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2012

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Related people
  • Kubbos, Eva (life partner of)
  • Lynn, Elwyn (friend of)
  • Borlase, Nancy (associate of)
Related person groups
  • Contemporary Art Society (NSW) (associate of)
Related collections
  • Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • National Gallery Australia, Canberra, ACT (collected in)