Mitzi Shearer

Name

Mitzi Shearer

Gender

Female

Birth date

1909

Birth place

Bratislava, Czechoslovakia View on map Close map

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Death date

16 December 1995

Death Place

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

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Movements

Austria 1932-35; South Africa 1936-76; Australia from 1976

Occupations

Drawer | Printmaker

Summary

Worked: Australia (WA, VIC, NSW). Etchings, Linocuts

NGA IRN

20966

Context

Australia

Biography

Mitzi Shearer was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia in 1909. She studied painting at private art schools in Johannesburg and Capetown (South Africa) 1965-75. In Australia she studied printmaking at Perth Technical College 1977-81. Her first single-artist exhibition was in South Africa in 1975.