'The Bather' by George Baldessin
1939 - Born, San
Biaggio di Callalta, Italy
1949 - Emigrated to Australia
1958-61 - Diploma Fine Arts (painting), RMIT
1962 - Studies in printmaking, Chelsea Art School, London
1963 - Further studies, Brera Academy, Milan
1964 - Part-time lecturer, RMIT
1965-66 - Full-time lecturer, RMIT
1965-66 - Alcorso-Sekers Travelling Scholarship for Sculpture (went to
Japan)
1967 - Winner: Maitland Print Prize
1970 - Winner: Second International Biennale for Drawing, Yugoslavia
1970 - Winner: Geelong Print Prize
1970 - Shared winner: Shepparton Print Prize (with Jan Senbergs)
1971 - Comalco Invitation Award for Sculpture
1973 - Ballarat Gallery Prize
1973 - La Trobe Valley Ronald Award
1975 - Represented Australia at Bienal de Sao Paulo, Brazil (with Imants
Tillers)
1976 - Worked at Atelier Lacouriere et Freault etching workshop, Paris;
Completed MM of Rue St Denis drawings in Paris
1977 - Returned to Australia
1978 - Lecturer, RMIT; Died in car accident, aged 39
2006
'Portraits and Performers', Australian Galleries, Sydney
2004
‘George Baldessin – Prints of Darkness’, Australian Galleries Works
on Paper, Melbourne
2003
‘George Baldessin 1939-1978’, La Trobe Regional Gallery
2001
‘George Baldessin – drawings, sculpture, etchings’, Australian
Galleries Works on Paper, Melbourne and Sydney
2000
‘George Baldessin – Occasional Images from a City Chamber 1975,
Australian Collection Focus’, Art Gallery of New South Wales
1998
‘George Baldessin Estate Prints 1963 – 1978’, Brisbane
1997
‘George Baldessin Estate Prints 1963 – 1978’, Australian Galleries,
Melbourne and Sydney
1992
‘George Baldessin Prints and Drawings’, Sherman Galleries, Sydney
‘Etchings Prints 1963 – 1978’, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
1991
‘Drawings and selected sculpture’, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
‘Exhibition of drawings’, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
‘An exhibition of drawings’, Heide Park and Art Gallery, Melbourne
1987
‘Selected prints and bronzes’, Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne
1983
‘George Baldessin Retrospective’, Wollongong City Gallery, NSW
‘Etchings’, Stuart Gerstman Galleries, Melbourne
‘George Baldessin: Sculpture and etchings – a memorial exhibition’,
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1978
‘Personages, remnants and discards’, Bonython Gallery, Adelaide
1977
‘M M of Rue St Denis’, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
‘Etchings’, Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane
‘M M of Rue St Denis’ (drawings), Rudy Komon Art Gallery, Sydney
1974
‘Etchings’, Rudy Komon Art Gallery, Sydney
‘George Baldessin: Complete etchings’, Mornington Peninsula Arts
Centre, Victoria
‘Etchings’, Festival of Perth, Desborough Galleries, Perth
1972
(Etchings), Crossley Gallery, Melbourne
‘Sculpture 1971-72’ Rudy Komon Art Gallery, Sydney
1971
‘Drawings and sculpture’, Ballarat Art Gallery, Victoria
1970
‘Etchings’, Gallery One Eleven, Brisbane
‘(Etchings), Crossley Gallery, Melbourne
‘Sculpture’, Rudy Komon Art Gallery, Sydney
1967
‘Exhibition of prints by George Baldessin’, Geelong Art Gallery,
Victoria
1965
‘Drawings, sculpture and etchings’, Rudy Komon Art Gallery, Sydney
1964
‘Sculpture, etchings and drawings’, Argus Gallery, Melbourne
2007
'Stock Show', Australian Galleries, Melbourne
‘European sensibilities: Baldessin and his circle’, Castlemaine Art
Gallery and Historical Museum, Castlemaine
2006
'Fine Australian Prints and Drawings', Australian Galleries, Melbourne
'New Year Group Exhibition', Australian Galleries, Melbourne
'Summer Stock Show', Australian Galleries, Melbourne
'50th Anniversary Exhibition', Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2005
‘A selection of works on paper’, Australian Galleries Works on Paper,
Melbourne
2003
‘Pen to Pixel: 200 years of Australian Prints & Drawings’, NGV
Australia, Ian Potter Centre, Melbourne
‘Sculpture at RMIT during the Jomantas years’, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
‘This was the future…Australian sculpture of the 1950’s, 60’s, 70’s
+ today’, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
1997
‘I had a dream: Australian art in the 1960’s’, National Gallery of
Victoria, Melbourne
1996
‘Occasional screens with seating arrangement, Grahame Sturgeon Memorial
Trust’, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne
1995
‘Rites for an Anxious Spring, selected acquisitions 1981-1995’, Museum
of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne
1978
‘A tribute to George Baldessin’, Realities, Melbourne
‘Contemporary Australian Drawing’, Perth Survey of Drawing, Festival
of Perth, Art Gallery of Western Australia and touring
1975
‘Australian Graphics 1974’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
(organised VAB touring South America 1975)
‘3 Printmaker: Maddock, Shomaly, Baldessin’, National Gallery of
Victoria, Melbourne
‘XIII Biennale de Sao Paulo’, Brazil
1974
‘Tamarind: Homage to lithography’, Art Gallery of New South Wales,
Sydney
‘International Biennale of Prints’, Tokyo
1973
‘Print Council of Australia Print Prize’, National Gallery of Victoria
‘Ballarat Gallery Prize’, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery
‘First Biennale of Sydney’, Sydney Opera House, Sydney
1971
‘1971 Victorian Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition’, Geelong Art
Gallery
‘Multiples’, Crossley Gallery, Melbourne
‘Comalco Invitation Award for Sculpture’, National Gallery of Victoria
1970
‘Ten printmakers’, National Gallery of Victoria
‘Shepparton Print Prize Exhibition’, Shepparton Art Gallery, Victoria
‘Geelong Print Prize Exhibition’, Geelong Art Gallery
‘Second International Biennale for Drawing’, Yugoslavia
1969
‘International Print Biennale’, Cracow, Poland
‘International Print Biennale’, Bradford, UK
1968
‘International Print Biennale’, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia
1967
‘11th Annual Maitland Art Prize Exhibition’, Maitland Art Gallery
‘Georges Invitation Art Prize’, Georges Art Gallery, Melbourne
1966
‘Australian Prints Today’, Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC, USA
‘Alcors-Sekers Travelling Scholarship for Sculpture’, Art Gallery of
New South Wales, Sydney
1965
‘Recent Australian Sculpture’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1964
‘Australian Print Survey 1963-64’, Art Gallery of New South Wales,
Sydney
‘Mildura Sculpture Triennial’, Mildura Art Gallery, Victoria