Walter Whall Battiss (6 January 1906 – 20 August 1982) was a South African artist, also known as the creator of the "Fook Island" concept. Battiss was...
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largest permanent exhibition of paintings by the South African artist Walter Battiss. Historical annual events include the Biltong Festival, which was started...
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Albert Decaris (FRA) "Swimming Pool" John Copley (GBR) "Polo Players" Walter Battiss (RSA) "Seaside Sport" Applied arts and crafts none awarded Alex Diggelmann (SUI)...
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Ben Weekes Stephanie Wheeler Emma Wiggs Laurie Williams Delmar Banner Walter Battiss Arno Breker Gabriele D'Annunzio Roy De Maistre Thomas Eakins Fanie Eloff...
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Ashton (born 1956) Beezy Bailey (born 1962) Kenneth Baker (1921–1996) Walter Battiss (1906–1982) Janko de Beer (born 1980) Charles Davidson Bell (1813–1882)...
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Lipschitz, Gregoire Boonzaier (co-founder and president for 10 years), Louis Maurice, Solly Disner and Walter Battiss. South African History Online v t e...
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mixed media. He collaborated closely with iconic South African artist Walter Battiss on the Fook Island concept from 1973. "In the thirty years spanning...
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Paintings of Gregoire Boonzaier, Irmin Henkel, Irma Stern, Louis Steyn, Walter Battiss, Dirk Meerkotter, F. Claerhout, Bettie Cilliers-Barnard, Johannes Meintjes...
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Herbert Ward and Henry Moore, and South Africans such as Gerard Sekoto, Walter Battiss, Alexis Preller, Maud Sumner, Sydney Kumalo, Ezrom Legae and Pierneef...
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category. The original report credits this medal to Germany. Two individuals, Walter W. Winans and Alfréd Hajós, won medals in both athletic and art competitions...
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1960s in South Africa by artists like Irma Stern, Cyril Fradan, and Walter Battiss and through galleries like the Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg. More...
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Walter Battiss, whose erstwhile home has been converted into a residential development with guesthouse known as Fook Island (named after the Battiss-created...
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Ruth First, anti-apartheid activist and scholar. (b. 1925) 20 August – Walter Battiss, artist. (b. 1906) Three new Cape gauge locomotive types enter service...
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in Palestine, predecessor of Maccabi Tel Aviv (Israel). January 6 – Walter Battiss, South African artist (d. 1982) January 11 – Albert Hofmann, Swiss chemist...
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the branch and was its first president. The first chairman was artist Walter Battiss. In 1959, the organization bought land in Polley's Arcade and opened...
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been separated from the South African art world, Sumner was invited by Walter Battiss to exhibit with the New Group in 1938. She was awarded the Medal of...
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"Just Jani" that also included interviews with art figures such as Walter Battiss. She later published a collection of columns as the book Face Value...
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Library. Retrieved 10 August 2022. Siebrits, Warren (10 July 2016). "Walter Battiss, the man who lived five lives". TimesLIVE. Archived from the original...
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from the original on 2 November 2021. Retrieved 5 December 2022. Kirn, Walter (30 April 2006). "'Absurdistan,' by Gary Shteyngart, Russian Unorthodox"...
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aged 93. Westbrook began to paint at a young age and studied art under Walter Battiss in Pretoria. Not recognised officially as war artist, Westbrook nevertheless...
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River to the Kalfontein Dam (on the Riet River) in 1987. The artist Walter Battiss knew the site as a youngster and wrote about it in publications on rock...
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Five of the interviewees (Sol Kerzner, Danie Craven, Pieter-Dirk Uys, Walter Battiss and Taubie Kushlick) were featured in the They shaped our century survey...
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only preceded by Fook Island, an art movement founded by the artist Walter Battiss. The Superstroke art movement is a direct decedent of the concept of...
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Literature and Philosophy (D.Litt. et Phil.) in African Languages in 2007 Walter Battiss, South African abstract painter, received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in...
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Cecil Higgs, John Dronsfield, Irma Stern, Jean Welz, Alexis Preller and Walter Battiss were invited to participate in the Art Club exhibitions in Turin and...
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World that was Ours is dedicated to 'the men of Rivonia' - Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu, Ahmed Kathrada, Denis Goldberg, Govan Mbeki, Elias Motsoaledi, Andrew...
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Tuberculosis reaches epidemic proportions in South Africa. 6 January – Walter Battiss, artist, is born in Somerset East (d. 1982) 5 March – Siegfried Mynhardt...
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dating from historical artists like Gladys Mgudlandlu, Gerard Sekoto, Walter Battiss, Robert Hodgins, Ezrom Legae and Durant Sihlali to contemporaries like...
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(SAHRA identifier 9/2/082/0007 - Walter Battiss Art Museum, 45 Paulet Street, Somerset East) Media related to Walter Battiss Art Museum at Wikimedia Commons...
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46 (83): 6–21. doi:10.1080/00043389.2011.11877137. S2CID 194015211. Battiss, Walter (1977). "ELC Art and Craft Centre at Rorke's Drift". African Arts....
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