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Name
BACKEN, Earle

Other Names
BACKEN, Earle Ian

Culture
Australian | Male


Birth Date
1 September 1927

Birth Place
Albury, New South Wales, Australia

Death Date
2005

Death Place
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Movements
England 1954-55; France 1956-59


Summary
Art teacher | Artist (painter) | Printmaker | Worked: Australia (NSW), England, France. Etchings, Engravings, Screenprints, Lithographs
Context
Australia

Address
  • 1988
    19 Beresford Avenue, Chatswood, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia


Remarks

Earle Backen

Earle Backen was born in Albury, NSW, in September 1927. He studied at the Julian Ashton School, Sydney under John Passmore and in 1954 was awarded the New South Wales Travelling Art Scholarship. He travelled to England and studied in London at the Central School of Arts and Crafts and the Slade School.

He was in Paris between 1956 and 1957 and in 1959 studied engraving at S.W. Hayter’s Atelier 17. He returned to Sydney late in 1959, and taught at the National Art School, Sydney Alexander Mackie College NSW where he established the printmaking workshop. In recent years he has become well known as a painter.

© Australianprints 1990


 

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