Helen Haenke (1916–1978) was an Australian artist, poet and playwright whose work was part of an emerging literary community in southeast Queensland in the late 1960s and 1970s.
She trained as a commercial artist at East Sydney Technical College and studied painting under Max Meldrum in Melbourne.
[4] They returned to Queensland in 1943 to help run the family's coal mining interests in Ipswich,[5] including Rhondda Colliery.
Haenke continued to work on her art, specialising in still life, portraiture and domestic scenes.
[1] Haenke's unpublished manuscripts, poems and other writings are held in the University of Queensland Fryer Library.