Born in Italy 19 May 1939.After spending his childhood there,he moved to Australia (1949).From 1958 to 1961 he was at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.He travelled to London in 1962,where he studied printmaking at the Chelsea School of Arts.He then travelled to Milan and studied sculpture under Marino Marini at the Accademia di Belle Arti.After his return to Melbourne, he had his first one-man show of sculptures and etchings at the Argus Gallery in 1964. George Baldessin died in Melbourne 9 August 1978