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Battiss, Walter (1906–1982) By Peter, Judy

DOI: 10.4324/9781135000356-REM1526-1
Published: 02/05/2017
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Walter Battiss was a leading South African painter, printmaker, author, educator and academic, well known for his non-representational oil paintings, impressionistic water colours and symbolic prints. During the 1930s, Batiss made ground-breaking contributions to the disciplines of painting and print-making in South Africa.

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Peter, Judy. Battiss, Walter (1906–1982). Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism, Taylor and Francis, https://www.rem.routledge.com/articles/battiss-walter-1906-1982.

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