Teisutis 'Joe' Zikaras (often spelled "Tesutis") (5 July 1922– 10 May 1991) was an Australian sculptor born in Panevezys, Lithuania. After earning a diploma at the School of Fine Arts, Kaunas, Lithuania, where his father Juozas, creator of Lithuania's famous Liberty statue, was Head. He spent two years teaching drawing and sculpture in Friedburg, Germany before being accepted by Australia as a 'DP', arriving in Melbourne in 1949.

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  • Teisutis 'Joe' Zikaras (often spelled "Tesutis") (5 July 1922– 10 May 1991) was an Australian sculptor born in Panevezys, Lithuania. After earning a diploma at the School of Fine Arts, Kaunas, Lithuania, where his father Juozas, creator of Lithuania's famous Liberty statue, was Head. He spent two years teaching drawing and sculpture in Friedburg, Germany before being accepted by Australia as a 'DP', arriving in Melbourne in 1949. From 1952 to 1956, he was employed as a sculptor on the Melbourne War Memorial. He proceeded to become Lecturer in Sculpture at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. He was a menber of the Victorian Sculptors' Society. Around 1960, he joined with Clifford Last, Inge King, Vincas Jomantas and Lenton Parr to form a splinter group which exhibited together as the 'Centre Five'. In 1967 they split from the Society, which never recovered from the departure of so many of its prominent members.
  • Teisutis (Joe) Zikaras was een Australische beeldhouwer.
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  • Teisutis 'Joe' Zikaras (often spelled "Tesutis") (5 July 1922– 10 May 1991) was an Australian sculptor born in Panevezys, Lithuania. After earning a diploma at the School of Fine Arts, Kaunas, Lithuania, where his father Juozas, creator of Lithuania's famous Liberty statue, was Head. He spent two years teaching drawing and sculpture in Friedburg, Germany before being accepted by Australia as a 'DP', arriving in Melbourne in 1949.
  • Teisutis (Joe) Zikaras was een Australische beeldhouwer.
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  • Teisutis Zikaras
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