Modern Painter - Australian Artist
Name : Brett Whiteley
Born : April 7, 1939
Died : 1992
Country : born Sydney, Australia

Brett Whiteley Bio..
Brett Whiteley was born on April 7, 1939 in Sydney, Australia and died at the age of 53 in the year 1992.

Whiteley's daughter Arkie Whiteley was born in 1964 in London. Sydney, London and New York were the places where Brett Whiteley had lived most of his life and developed his career as a modern painter.

The major influences on his art style were Rembrandt and Van Gogh, who's influences were seen in many of his mature Sydney works.

Brett Whiteley achieved an international fame and recognition as an artist. He won a number of art prizes, such as Bathurst prize for young artists (1956), Italian traveling scholarship (1960), Harkness Foundation scholarship (1967), Archibald prize and Sulman Prize (1976), Wynne prize (1977/1978) and has exhibited his paintings around the world.

Whiteley in his later years became addicted to alcohol and drugs, and ultimately cut his life and career short. Brett Whiteley died in the year 1992 of a heroin overdose.
(the American contemporary artist Jean Michel Basquiat also died of a drug overdose)

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