# Max Angus
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{{short description|Australian painter}}
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| name = Max Angus
| honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AM|size=100}}, [FRSA](/source/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society_of_Arts)
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| birth_name = Max Rupert Angus
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1914|10|30}}
| birth_place = [Hobart](/source/Hobart), Tasmania, Australia
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2017|2|21|1914|10|20}}
| death_place = [Hobart](/source/Hobart), Tasmania, Australia
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| education = Hobart Technical College
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| style = Watercolour landscapes
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| spouse = Thedda Corrigan
| awards = {{awd|[Member of the Order of Australia](/source/Member_of_the_Order_of_Australia)|1978}}
| elected = {{awd|[Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts](/source/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society_of_Arts)|1987}}
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'''Max Rupert Angus''' {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AM}}, [FRSA](/source/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society_of_Arts) (30 October 1914 – 21 February 2017) was an Australian painter, best known for his watercolour paintings of [Tasmanian](/source/Tasmanian) landscapes.
==Life and career==
Angus was born in [Hobart](/source/Hobart), [Tasmania](/source/Tasmania) in 1914. In 1931, he studied art at Hobart Technical College and worked as a sign writer.[{{cite news|title=Tasmanian artist Max Angus dies at 102|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-25/tasmanian-artist-max-angus-dies/8301260|accessdate=25 February 2017|work=[ABC News](/source/ABC_News_(Australia))|date=25 February 2017|language=en-AU}}] 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.[{{cite news|last1=Howard|first1=Jessica|title=Renowned Tasmanian painter Max Angus AM dies, aged 102|url=http://www.themercury.com.au/news/tasmania/renowned-tasmanian-painter-max-angus-am-dies-aged-102/news-story/0b488f8a636610ea4dba9d2a736a01ab|accessdate=25 February 2017|work=[The Mercury](/source/The_Mercury_(Hobart)) |date=25 February 2017}}]
In 1967, Angus was one of several Tasmanian artists and photographers who protested the proposed flooding of [Lake Pedder](/source/Lake_Pedder) by documenting the original state of the lake in art and photographs. When the photographer [Olegas Truchanas](/source/Olegas_Truchanas) drowned in the Gordon River in 1972, Angus wrote a definitive tribute to his friend, ''The World of Olegas Truchanas'', published in 1975.[{{cite web | title=Max Angus CV | work=Alcorso Foundation | url=https://www.alcorso.org.au/assets/Max_Angus_CV.pdf | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180313051134/https://www.alcorso.org.au/assets/Max_Angus_CV.pdf | archive-date=March 13, 2018 | url-status=dead }}]
Angus was made a [Member of the Order of Australia](/source/Member_of_the_Order_of_Australia) on Australia Day in 1978.[{{cite web|title=ANGUS, Max Rupert|url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/869914|website=It's an Honours|publisher=Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet|accessdate=26 February 2017}}] In 1987, he was appointed as a [Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts](/source/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society_of_Arts) (FRSA).