Walter BATTISS
1906 – 1982
Paintings, graphics
Walter Battiss – October, 1970 (© Murray Schoonraad – De Arte 10)
Selected Solo and Group Shows
1960 Queen’s Hall Art Gallery, Johannesburg (34 Contemporary South African Artists) (8th August)
1960 Lawrence Adler Galleries, Johannesburg (solo) (opened by Charles Eglington) (22nd November)
1964 Adler Fielding Galleries, Johannesburg (solo) (11th August) (opened by Dr A.J. Tresider, Cultural Attaché American Embassy, Pretoria)
1965 Gallery 101, Rand Central, Johannesburg (Limpopo) (solo) (4th September)
Many works shown at Gallery 101 in 1965 are included in this publication (van Schaik, 1965)
1966 SA Association of Arts, Windhoek – Walter Battiss presented by Gallery 101 (solo) (opened by Olga Levinson) (21st March) (34 paintings)
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The Administrator W.(Wennie) C. du Plessis and Prof. Otto Schröder (at back) viewing the Walter Battiss exhibition in Windhoek, with Mrs.Heidi Gärtner, representative of Gallery 101, Johannesburg (image © Nitzsche-Ritter)
Adolph Jentsch and Mayor Jack Levinson a.o. at Walter Battiss exhibition opening in Windhoek (image © Nitzsche-Ritter)
1969 Gallery 101, Rand Central, Johannesburg (solo) (new graphics - Small Gallery) (8th to 18th April)
1969 Gallery 101, Rand Central, Johannesburg (“Man” / “Die Mens”) (New Serigraphs and Paintings) (solo) (27th October)
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1970 Gallery 101, Hyde Park, Johannesburg (“My Africa”) (17th October)
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1972 Gallery 101, Johannesburg (graphics by Walter Battiss, Cecil Skotnes, Norman Catherine) (15th September)
Die Transvaler, Johannesburg - 15th September, 1972 ("Grafiese Uitstalling ..." - review by Nico van Rensburg)
1972 Gallery 21 Hyde Park, Johannesburg (“Selection ’72) (28 artists) (7th October)
1972 Gallery 21 Hyde Park, Johannesburg (“Success 1972”) (Abrams, Baldinelli, Battiss, Borbereki, Boys, Scully, Skotnes) (2nd December)
1973 Gallery 21 Hyde Park, Johannesburg (“Island of Love”) (“New serigraphs 1973”) (solo) (24th March)
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Walter Battiss paintings on view in one of the Gallery 21 rooms, Hyde Park Corner, Johannesburg, in 1973
1973 Gallery 21 at NICRO Art Dealer’s Fair, Milner Park, Johannesburg (Abrams, Battiss, Borbereki, Boys, Raphael, Scully, Sithole, Skotnes) (8th August)
1974 Gallery 21 at ART 5’74 BASEL (Baldinelli, Battiss, Borbereki, Sithole, Skotnes, Editions 21) (19th June)
One of the important works by Walter Battiss exhibited by Gallery 21 at the ART 5'74 Basel
1974 Gallery 21 Hyde Park, Johannesburg (“Editions 21”) (Abrams, Baldinelli, Battiss, de Jong, Jaroszynska, Jaroszynski, Watson) (3rd August)
1975 Gallery 21 London “Group Show” (top SA and International Artists) (March/May)
Other works handled by or placed in public collections through the Haenggi family
Pretoria Art Museum
Oliewenhuis Art Museum
"Design for a South African postage stamp ...", 1978
Auctioned by Stephan Welz & Co., Cape Town - October, 2011 - Lot 548
"Arabian City" - oil/canvas - 30x30cm - first sold through Gallery 101, Johannesburg
SELECTED PRESS REFERENCES
Die Transvaler, Johannesburg - 15th September, 1972 ("Grafiese Uitstalling ..." - review by Nico van Rensburg)
Die Vaderland, Johannesburg - 10th November, 1971 ("S.A. die bron van 'n nuwe kunsvorm")
DE ARTE 10 (UNISA, Pretoria) - October, 1971 (issue dedicated to Walter Battiss)
The Star, Johannesburg - 28th October, 1970 - review by Richard Cheales
Rand Daily Mail, Johannesburg - 1st November, 1969 - review by H.E. Winder, with illustration of "Mother of the tribe"
"Mother of the tribe" oil/canvas - 70.5x84 cm has since been offered by Graham Britz, Bryanston
Die Vaderland, Johannesburg - 4th November, 1969 ("Battiss se grafiese werk is 'n kunsles")
ARTLOOK, Johannesburg - April, 1969
ARTLOOK, Johannesburg - September, 1967, p. 7
AZ, Windhoek - 23. März 1966 ("Abstrakte Malerei in der Kunstgalerie")
Die Suidwester, Windhoek - 19th March, 1966 + 23rd March, 1966
Die Transvaler, Johannesburg - 8th September, 1965 ("Goeie voorbeelde van Battiss se virtuositeit") - review by Dirk Meerkotter
The Star, Johannesburg - 19th August, 1965 ("Battiss to open New Gallery")
The Star, Johannesburg - 12th August, 1965 ("Limpopo" is new Battiss book)
OTHER WEBSITES
http://www.somerset-east.co.za/listing/walter_battiss_art_museum
NOTE
The life of Walter Battiss is extensively documented on the web and in various publications; this web page merely refers to his involvement with his Johannesburg galleries in the early 1960s to mid-1970s.
See recent publication "Walter Battiss: "I invented myself" The Jack M Ginsberg Collection (Ampersand) (Siebrits) 2016 - ISBN 978-0-620-70490-8
8th December, 2016