Udo Sellbach

Udo Sellbach
Born 1927
Cologne, Germany, arrived Australia 1955
Died 2006
Hobart, Australia
Known for Printmaking, Etching, lithography

Udo Sellbach (19272006) was a German-Australian visual artist and educator whose work focused primarily around his printmaking practice.[1]

Udo Sellbach was born in Cologne, Germany in 1927.[2][3] Trained at Kölner Werkschulen, Cologne, Germany from 1947-1953.[4] He arrived in Australia with his then wife and fellow artist Karin Schepers in June 1955. (Schepers had a sister in Melbourne).[5] From 1960-1963 he was lecturer of printmaking at the South Australian School of Art, Adelaide. Sellbach moved to Melbourne in 1965 and commenced work teaching printmkaing at RMIT University. He was also involved as a joint founder, in establishing the Print Council of Australia in the same year. In 1977 he was appointed the founding Director of Canberra School of Art (Graphic Investigation workshop). He held this position of Director of the CSA from 1977 to 1985. From 1985 until his death in 2006 Udo Sellbach lived in Hobart, Tasmania[6][7][8][9]

Exhibitions

Collections

Sellbach had artwork collections at many different museums, all of which were in Australia. He had collections at many different museums and galleries, some of them prestigious. His artwork collections are at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the Art Gallery of South Australia, the National Gallery of Victoria, the Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane and, the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth.

Awards

External links

References

  1. "Design and Art Australia Online (DAAO)".
  2. Hendrik Kolenberg, Anne Ryan (1998). Australian Prints: from the Gallery's collection. Sydney: AGNSW. ISBN 0731389123.
  3. Germaine, Max (1990). Artists and Galleries of Australia. Sydney: Craftsman House. ISBN 976 8097 02 7.
  4. Grishin, Sasha (1997). Australian Printmaking in the 1990s. Sydney: Craftsman House. ISBN 1875247157.
  5. Obituary, Udo Sellbach Sasha Grishin IMPRINT journal Summer 2006 Vol 41 No 4 ISSB 0313-3907
  6. Germaine, Max (1990). Artists and Galleries of Australia. Sydney: Craftsman House. ISBN 976 8097 02 7.
  7. Smith, Bernard (1971). Australian painting,1788-1960. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195503724.
  8. Carroll, Alison (1981). Graven Images in the Promised Land:A History of Printmaking in South Australia 1836-1981. Adelaide: AGSA. ISBN 0724357416.
  9. Elaine Smith, Gwenda Robb (1993). Concise Dictionary of Australian Artists. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. ISBN 0522844782.
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