Allan Mitelman (6 August 1946, Poland) is an Australian painter, printmaker and art teacher who arrived in Australia in 1953.
[1][2] He received his early training from his art teacher, the Austrian-born sculptor Karl Duldig, before studying architecture for a year.
He consolidate his interest in printmaking with further studies at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) soon after which, in 1972, Mitelman was included with Martin Sharp, Arthur Boyd and Fred Williams in the exhibition Australian Prints at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London[3] and an etching and lithograph by Mitelman was acquired by the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
He lectured at the National Gallery of Victoria School in 1972 and the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne where he was head of a separate department of printmaking, but in the merger of Prahran College with the VCA in 1992, he was replaced by John Scurry, Head of Printmaking at Prahran in a new and expanded department.
McCulloch describes his paintings as like the prints in having "a sensuous refinement of surface enlivened with accents, their quality often being complemented by evocative titles.