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Life Summary

Name	Sir Wilhelm Ernst Hans Heysen
Born	8 October, 1877 Hamburg, Germany
Died	2 July, 1968 (aged 90) Mount Barker, South Australia, Australia
Cultural Heritage	German Includes subject's nationality; their parents' nationality; the countries in which they spent a significant part of their childhood, and their self-identity.
Related Entries	[View as tree] Spencer, Walter Baldwin (friend) Fox, Emanuel Phillips (friend) Barnes, Gustave Adrian (friend) Smith, Sydney George Ure (friend) Spencer, Walter Baldwin (acquaintance) Young, William Blamire (acquaintance) Lindsay, Lionel Arthur (acquaintance) Gruner, Elioth Lauritz Leganyer (acquaintance) Herbert, Harold Brocklebank (acquaintance) Trenerry, Horace Hurtle (acquaintance) Streeton, Arthur Ernest (supporter) Gill, Harry Pelling (teacher) Ashton, James (teacher) Barr Smith, Robert (patron) Melba, Nellie (patron) Joyner, Frederick Allen (patron)
Education *	East Adelaide School (student, 1885) South Australian School of Art (student) Norwood Art School (Adelaide) (student, 1893)
Occupation or Descriptor *	landscape artist (1891-1968) South Australia, Australia painter (1891-1968) South Australia, Australia water-colourist (1891-1968) South Australia, Australia conservationist (1900-1968) South Australia, Australia art teacher (1903-1908) South Australia, Australia still-life artist (1918-1968) South Australia, Australia
Awards	Wynne Prize for art (recipient, 1904) Wynne Prize for art (recipient, 1909) Wynne Prize for art (recipient, 1911) Wynne Prize for art (recipient, 1920) Wynne Prize for art (recipient, 1922) Wynne Prize for art (recipient, 1924) Wynne Prize for art (recipient, 1926) Crouch Prize (recipient, 1931) Wynne Prize for art (recipient, 1931) Wynne Prize for art (recipient, 1932) Officer of the Order of the British Empire (recipient, 1945) Maude Vizard-Wholohan prize (SA) (recipient, 1957) Knight Bachelor (recipient, 1959)
Legacies *	Heysen electorate (South Australian parliament) (eponym)

* Dates are approximate