Notes

Walter Battiss visited Germany between April and October 1969 at the invitation of the Deutscher Akademische Austauschdienst. In Munich he met master printer, Josef Kroll, and experimented with silkscreen printing and photography. The prints he made during this visit, which often integrated strips of photographs, and typically documented the hippy scenes in Düsseldorf, Hamburg and Munich, are rarely exhibited or illustrated in the Battiss literature. He continued his experimentation with the photographic processes of screen printing when he met Chris Betambeau of Advanced Graphics in London later that year. Betambeau was master printer to such eminent British artists as David Hockney, Allen Jones, Victor Vasarely, Eduardo Paolozzi, Bridget Riley, R B Kitaj and Richard Hamilton.

Exhibited

Gallery 101, Johannesburg, New Serigraphs and Paintings with reference to Man, 27 October 1969

Literature

Warren Siebrits (ed.) (2016) Walter Battiss: I Invented Myself (The Jack M Ginsberg Collection), Johannesburg: The Ampersand Fund. Another example from this edition illustrated in colour on page 97.