Printmaker, draughtsman, painter and teacher, born illegitimate in Vienna, Austria, as Siegfried Steiner. He was adopted by the orthodox Jewish family of his father, Edmund Deutsch. While Edmund was in England Doitch was permitted to move there with his stepmother to avoid Nazi persecution, and his name was anglicized. After farm work and a period at St Martin’s School of Art Doitch was interned as an alien, worked in a munitions factory, then entered Camberwell School of Art, 1946–9, where Victor Pasmore and Claude Rogers were influences. After Camberwell, he studied printmaking part-time at the Central School of Arts and Crafts, where he was taught by Andrew Freeth and William Palmer Robins and met Alice FitzPayne, whom he married. He attended the Royal College of Art, 1951–4, initially in the painting school, then studied engraving under Edward Ardizzone and Robert Sargent Austin.