George Allen | |
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Died | 12 October 1972 | (aged 72)
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Known for | Sculpture |
George Henry Allen (8 February 1900 – 12 October 1972)[1] was an Australian sculptor and teacher, an official war artist in the latter years of the Second World War.
Allen was born in Kangaroo Flat, Bendigo, a son of George Edward Romeo Allen and his wife Emma Maria "Annie" Allen, née Schutt.
He was educated at Bendigo Junior Technical School and in 1917 won a scholarship for training as an industrial art teacher.[2] and studied at Caulfield Technical School,[3] and Swinburne Technical College[4]
In 1933 he succeeded John S. Davie[a] (1862–1955) as head of the Modelling and Sculpture Department at the Working Men's College, Melbourne, which in 1934 became the Melbourne Technical College,[1] which became RMIT, from which he retired in 1965.[4]
He served as an official war artist with the rank of lieutenant from December 1943, working at Port Moresby and the Australian War Memorial, retired February 1945.[1]
Allen married Ethel Maud Turner. They had a home at 10 Ruabon Road, Toorak, Victoria.[1]