ARTIST BIOGRAPHY: PRANKE, Walter Wenzel (1925- ). Born in the former Czechoslovakia, Pranke studied at the Dresden Art Academy; with Scott in Utah (1945); and in Hanover and Dusseldorf, Germany (1947). He came to Montreal, Quebec in 1955, before settling in Ottawa, Ontario in 1981. Working in oil and ink, he paints Old Montreal and Old Quebec City as well as the Laurentian landscape especially in winter.