Eva Kubbos

Eva Kubbos (real name Ieva Kubosaitytė, b. 1928) is an Australian-Lithuanian painter and printmaker. She was born in Didšiliai, in the Šilutė district. In 1944 she left for Germany, and in 1946–1951 studied at the School of Applied Arts in East Berlin under Wilhelm Tank. In 1952 she came to Australia and in 1960 settled in Sydney, where together with fellow Lithuanian artists she founded the Sydney Printmakers society. At the 3rd Tokyo International Print Biennale she won the prize for a woman artist, in 1964 the Wynne Prize and in 1968 the Trustees' Prize of the Art Gallery of New South Wales. She developed an abstract manner, painting landscapes in deep, rich, merging tones. Her works are held by the Lithuanian National Museum of Art.

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