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Born and educated in Graz, Austria, Karl Spreitz attended the Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara and as a guest at the Arts Centre School, Los Angeles, California. He immigrated to Canada in 1952, arriving in Victoria, British Columbia in 1959. His professional background includes roles as Creative Director at “Beautiful British Columbia Magazine”; a camera-operator for CHEK-TV; author of the photographic book, “Songs From the Wild” (1992); as a filmmaker, co-producing works with artists including Maxwell Bates, Richard Ciccimarra, Elza Mayhew, Michael Morris, Herbert Siebner, and Vicky Husband; and as a painter and photographer. Spreitz was a founding member of the esteemed Vancouver Island painters’ group the Limners, and was influential in bringing modernism to the Victoria art-scene. His works can be found in numerous private and corporate collections and have been exhibited extensively. ARTIST INFO: Karl Spreitz and Collaborators Archival Film Collection at the University of Victoria Galleries: http://uvac.uvic.ca/gallery/spreitz/ (Accessed February 27, 2017); Times Colonist Obituaries: http://www.timescolonist.com/obituary-artist-karl-spreitz-gave-life-to-his-work-1.2265284 and http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/timescolonist/obituary.aspx?pid=180059374 (Accessed February 26, 2017); Robert Amos article, “Spreitz films for Real”, Times Colonist, May 10, 2013: http://www.timescolonist.com/on-art-spreitz-films-for-real-1.175655 (Accessed February 27, 2017)