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Walter Whall Battiss

Walter Whall Battiss (1906 - 1982) was active/lived in South Africa.  Walter Battiss is known for Figure, landscape painting, abstraction, woodcuts.

Walter Battiss was born in Somerset East, in the Western Cape province of South Africa in 1906

Art Education:
1929 Three weeks drawing at Wits Tech Art School and evening classes in painting.
1931 - 1932 Johannesburg Training College (Teachers Diploma); etching lessons with Emily Fern.
1941 Completed BA Fine Arts, UNISA

Biography:
Walter Battiss was the son of an English methodist family long established in Somerset East, South Africa

1917 Battiss family moved to Koffiefontein where an engineer on the local mine first stimulated Walter Battiss' abiding interest in archeology.

1919 The family settled in Fauresmith where Walter Battiss matriculated in 1923

1924 Walter Battiss became a clerk in the Magistrates Court at Rustenburg; spent his leisure hours painting the surrounding landscapes in a descriptive realist style, signed his work WW Battiss.

1929 Transferred to the supreme court in Johannesburg and began studies in art.

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