Born in Elze 1872, died in Hamburg 1964. Trained at the school of Heinrich Knirr (1862-1944) in Munich and later at the Berlin Academy. Professor at the school of applied arts Altona, co-founder of Altona artist’s club, numerous public commissions. Literature: Vollmer, Rump, Der Neue Rump a. other. Battermann was likely a war painter during the First World War, travelling through the Balkan countries with the German army. A watercolor entitled “Turkish Han Skoplje” is in private collection of the author of this lexicon. Several other paintings with motives from Balkan are in private collections in Argentina, Canada , etc…
![János Vaszary (Kaposvár, 1867 – Budapest, 1939), Camel Caravan, Skopje 1916, oil on canvas in the collection of Hungarian National gallery.](https://www.artlexicon.mk/wp-content/uploads/János-Vaszary-Kaposvár-1867-–-Budapest-1939-Camel-Caravan-Skopje-1916-oil-on-canvas-in-the-collection-of-Hungarian-National-gallery.-768x543.jpg)
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Camels in Skopje
It is May 14, 2019. I woke up with a new message from my “Macedonian art” internet search queries. The Hungarian auction house BÁV Zrt