Paul Haefliger

Paul Haefliger (8 February 1914 – March 1982) was an abstract painter, art critic, writer and printmaker.

He was a major figures in the Sydney art world in the 1940s and 1950s He was more interested in art and in the 1930s studied at the Julian Ashton Art School in Sydney. In 1935 he married artist Jean Bellette. From 1936 he travelled to Europe and studied at the Westminster School of Art in London under Bernard Meninsky and Mark Gertler; the Académie Colarossi and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris. His study tours of Japan, India, Britain and Europe, gave him an opportunity to study woodcutting and printmaking.