Name

Earle Backen

Other names

BACKEN, Earle Ian

Culture

Australian

Gender

Male

Birth date

1 September 1927

Birth place

Albury, New South Wales, Australia View on map Close map

Death date

2005

Death Place

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia View on map Close map

Movements

England 1954-55; France 1956-59

Occupations

Art teacher | Artist (painter) | Printmaker

Summary

Worked: Australia (NSW), England, France. Etchings, Engravings, Screenprints, Lithographs

NGA IRN

14631

Context

Australia

Address

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

Biography

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

Last Updated

08 Jan 2021