Max Rupert Angus ,

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(30 October 1914 – 21 February 2017) was an Australian painter, best known for his watercolour paintings of

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landscapes. He was born in Hobart, Tasmania in 1914. In 1931, he studied art at Hobart Technical College and worked as a sign writer. He later moved to Melbourne to start a commercial art studio with his brother, Don. In 1942, Angus enlisted in the army during World War II, working as the head of the map drafting room in the intelligence department. Discharged in 1945, he returned to Hobart where he worked in several artistic media and endeavours, but ended up concentrating on watercolour paintings of the Tasmanian landscape. In 1967, Angus was one of several Tasmanian artists and photographers who protested the proposed flooding of

Lake Pedder Lake Pedder, once a glacial outwash lake, is a man-made impoundment and diversion lake located in the southwest of Tasmania, Australia. In addition to its natural catchment from the Frankland Range, the lake is formed by the 1972 damming of the ...

by documenting the original state of the lake in art and photographs. When the photographer

Olegas Truchanas Olegas Truchanas (22 September 1923 – 6 January 1972) was a Lithuanian- Australian conservationist and nature photographer. He was a key figure in the attempt to stop the damming of the ecologically sensitive Lake Pedder in South West Ta ...

drowned in the Gordon River in 1972, Angus wrote a definitive tribute to his friend, ''The World of Olegas Truchanas'', published in 1975.Max Angus CV
, Alcorso Foundation. Angus was made a

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on Australia Day in 1978. In 1987, he was appointed as a

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(FRSA). Angus died on 21 February 2017, aged 102.

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1914 births 2017 deaths Australian watercolourists Members of the Order of Australia Recipients of the Centenary Medal Australian centenarians Australian Army personnel of World War II Australian Army soldiers Men centenarians {{Australia-painter-stub