Fritz ALTHAUS
1863–1962, England

Fritz Althaus was born in Lewisham, Kent, and first learned to draw with the help of his mother who was talented amateur portrait-painter. He studied under the artist A. H. Haig, followed by tutelage at St Martin's School of Art, the Westminster School of Art and the Royal Institution. By 1908 he was living in Headingley, Leeds and in 1912 he and his wife, Margaret Richardson Althaus (nee Henderson) had their first child, a son. Because of the Great War, Althaus changed his name to Frederick B KERR (c1915). In the name of Fred KERR he was made Professor of Art at Leeds University. He died in 1962, in Frimley, Surrey at the advanced age of 99 years and 8 months.

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