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
35 mm colour slide
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
  • Lithuanian
Languages
  • English
  • German
  • Russian
  • Lithuanian
Initial Record Data Source
  • Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery History Archive.
Copyright
  • Truchanas Family Collection