Olegas Truchanas b. 22 September 1923

  • Artist (Photographer)
Tags: Environmentalist, Wilderness photographer, Cibachrome
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Name
Olegas Truchanas
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Artist (Photographer)
Other Occupation
  • Engineering Clerk 1953 - 1972 Hydro Electric Commission, Hobart, TAS
  • Labourer 1949 - 1951 Electrolytic Zinc Company, Risdon, TAS
  • Meter Reader 1951 - 1953 Hydro Electric Commission, Hobart, TAS
Tags:
Environmentalist
Wilderness photographer
Cibachrome
Birth date
22 September 1923
Birth place
Siauliai, Lithuania
Death date
6 January 1972
Death place
Gordon River, TAS
Active Period
  • c.1945 - 1971
Arrival
  • February 1949 (Melbourne, VIC. )
Residence
  • 1949 - 1972 Hobart, Tas.
Training
  • c.1944 - c.1945 United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration University, Munich, Germany
Cultural Heritage
  • Latvian
Languages
  • English
  • German
  • Russian
  • Lithuanian
Initial Record Data Source
  • Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery History Archive.
Copyright
  • Truchanas Family

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References [<ExternalResource: Angus, Max 1975 'The World of Olegas Truchanas'. Olegas Truchanas Publication Committee, Hobart.>, <ExternalResource: Cica, Natasha 2011 'Pedder dreaming: Olegas Truchanas and a lost Tasmanian wilderness.' University of Queensland Press, St Lucia.>, <ExternalResource: Flanagan, Richard 2011 'The outsiders: Olegas Truchanas and Peter Dombrovskis.' Art and Australia, vol 48(1), p.124(4)>, <ExternalResource: Sprod, Dan 2002 'Truchanas, Olegas', Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol 16, Melbourne University Press, Carlton.>] [<ExternalResource: Angus, Max 1975 'The World of Olegas Truchanas'. Olegas Truchanas Publication Committee, Hobart.>, <ExternalResource: Cica, Natasha 2011 'Pedder dreaming: Olegas Truchanas and a lost Tasmanian wilderness.' University of Queensland Press, St Lucia.>, <ExternalResource: Flanagan, Richard 2011 'The outsiders: Olegas Truchanas and Peter Dombrovskis.' Art and Australia, vol 48(1), p.124(4)>, <ExternalResource: Olegas Truchanas in Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol 16 2002, Melbourne University Press, Carlton.>]