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Walter Barten (1935 - 2004) was an artist and writer on art.
His life took place between Amsterdam and Las Negras in southern Spain. Barten was born in the Flemish countryside as the eldest son of a Walloon mother and a reformed Dutch father. Walter Barten made his debut as an artist in the mid-sixties with an exhibition in the Amsterdam gallery Mokum. He exhibited not only in the Netherlands but also in his native Belgium (Brussels and Ostend) and in Spain (Almeria and Rodalquilar).
He started writing about art in Elseviers Weekblad. Then followed De Groene Amsterdammer. Later he went to work for Het Financieele Dagblad.
When he travelled to Venice for the Biennale, he slept in the open air in the hills, as he was used to when he was trekking in the mountains. When he was 67, this came to an end.