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Anna Katrina Zinkeisen , married. Heseltine , (born August 29, 1901 in Kilcreggan , † September 23, 1976 in London ) was a Scottish painter and artist .

biography

Anna Zinkeisen's paternal grandfather was the Berlin- born yarn merchant Theodore Victor Zinkeisen, who ran the Zinkeisen & Co. company in Glasgow and lived in Dhuhill House in Helensburgh . He was a member of the Helensburgh and Gareloch Horticultural Society and the Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow . In 1881 he moved to Kirklee, now part of Glasgow. He had two sons, Victor William (* 1865) and Edward (* 1873). In 1896, Victor married William Zinkeisen, a timber merchant and amateur artist who, according to other sources, worked for his father's company, Clara Bolton-Charles. The couple lived in Kilcreggan on the Rosneath Peninsula and had three children: Doris (* 1887), Ian Victor (* 1900) and Anna (* 1901). Anna and her sister Doris were tutored at home by a governess , to whose annoyance they painted almost everything, even the wallpaper. In 1909 the Zinkeisen couple went bankrupt . The family then moved to Pinner in Middlesex .

After moving to near London , Anna and Doris Zinkeisen attended the Harrow School of Art . Both won scholarships to the Royal Academy of Arts . Anna Zinkeisen studied sculpture there from 1916 to 1921 . In 1920 and 1921 she won the Landseer Award for her works and exhibited at the Royal Academy for the first time in 1919 . She received an order from Wedgwood ; Her works were awarded a silver medal at the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et industriels modern in Paris in 1925 . Nevertheless, Zinkeisen decided to specialize in portrait and wall painting .

During the summer exhibition of the Royal Academy in 1921, the work of the "Zinkeisen Sisters" and other young artists caused a controversy, as the established, male-dominated art circles wanted to give them no or only a bad place in the exhibition. An article appeared in the Sunday Express about this incident , in which the sisters were introduced, which suddenly made them known and led to the Zinkeisens becoming sought-after portrait painters. Anna Zinkeisen painted Prince Philip , the researcher Alexander Fleming and the publisher Lord Beaverbrook, among others . In 1928 Anna Zinkeisen married the officer Guy Heseltine; the couple had a daughter, Julia (* 1933). She also works as a painter.

In 1935, Anna and Doris Zinkeisen were commissioned by the Clydebank- based shipbuilding company John Brown & Company to paint the walls of the Queen Mary ocean liner . Her work can be seen in the ship's verandah grill room, which is permanently anchored in Long Beach , California , as a museum and hotel. At this time Anna Zinkeisen was also working on book illustrations and magazine covers, as well as on the design of advertising posters, for example on behalf of London Transport for events such as Merry-go-round and the Motor Cyle and Cycle Show in 1935. In 1940, the sisters also created murals for the passenger ship Queen Elizabeth .

During World War II , Anna Zinkeisen worked as a medical illustrator and nursing assistant at St Mary's Hospital in Paddington . After working the day shift on a ward as an emergency nurse , Zinkeisen used a disused operating room as a studio to work on her paintings because her apartment was bombed out. She painted scenes from the hospital and depictions of air raid victims . She also made pathological drawings of war injuries for the Royal College of Surgeons . Her self-portrait and a painting by plastic surgeon Archibald McIndoe are on display in the National Gallery in London .

Towards the end of the war, London Transport commissioned Anna Zinkeisen to design a poster featuring a quote from Winston Churchill and including a woman leading a family away from war in sunlit fields. In 1944 the sisters were commissioned by the United Steel Companies (USC) to design twelve posters that were published in the trade press in Great Britain, Canada , Australia and South Africa . The images were published in the book This Present Age in 1946 . In 1948 she took part in the art competition at the Olympic Games in London . In 1955 Anna Zinkeisen created two posters for the St John Ambulance at St Mary's Hospital, which were used to attract employees. The originals are in the Museum of the Order of St John at St John's Gate in London.

Anna Zinkeisen lived with her husband Guy at Looms Cottage in Burgh , Suffolk . After his death, she created a mural in the local St Botolph's Church , which shows a motif with birds from the Bible. Until the end she lived in Burgh and was productive. She died in a Kensington hospital in 1976 .

literature

  • Philip Kelleway: Highly Desirable: The Zinkeisen Sisters and Their Legacy . Leiston Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-9559673-4-4 .

Web links

Commons : Anna Zinkeisen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pictures worth a thousand words: thoughts on 'Brexit'. In: wilddogworld.com. June 18, 2016, accessed May 24, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Donald Fullarton: Peninsula sisters found art fame. Helensburgh Heritage Trust, February 11, 2014, accessed May 24, 2020 .
  3. ↑ The Zinkeisen sisters. In: scotsman.com. November 13, 2006, accessed May 22, 2020 .
  4. ^ A b Peter JM McEwan: The Dictionary of Scottish Art and Architecture . Antique Collectors' Club, 1994, ISBN 978-1-85149-134-6 .
  5. ^ Anna Zinkeisen - Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951. In: sculpture.gla.ac.uk. May 24, 2020, accessed May 24, 2020 .
  6. ^ Judi McGinley: The Zinkeisen Sisters: Behind the Glitz and the Glamor! Museum of the Order of St John, April 6, 2020, accessed May 24, 2020 .
  7. ^ Biographical Dictionary of ScottishWomen. Edinburgh University Press, 2007, ISBN 0748626603 p. 384 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  8. ^ Frances Spalding: 20th Century Painters and Sculptors . Antique Collectors' Club, 1990, ISBN 978-1-85149-106-3 .
  9. ↑ Ruth Artmonsky: Designing Women: Women Working in Advertising and publicity from the 1920s to the 1960s . Artmonsky Arts, 2012, ISBN 978-0-9551994-9-3 , pp. 107-113 .
  10. ↑ Poster Girls exhibition showcases forgotten design heroines. BBC News, October 13, 2017, accessed May 22, 2020 .
  11. ^ Anna Katrina Zinkeisen: Motor Show, Olympia - Anna Katrina Zinkeisen - Google Arts & Culture. In: artsandculture.google.com. Retrieved May 24, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Anna Zinkeisen. Artists' Collecting Society, accessed May 24, 2020 .
  13. ^ Juliet Gardiner: Wartime, Britain 1939-1945 . Review / Headline Book Publishing, 2004, ISBN 978-0-7553-1026-5 .
  14. ^ Kathleen Palmer: Women War Artists . Tate Publishing / Imperial War Museum, 2011, ISBN 978-1-85437-989-4 .
  15. ↑ Anna Zinkeisen. National Portrait Gallery, London, accessed May 22, 2020 .
  16. ↑ Sir Archibald Hector McIndoe. National Portrait Gallery, London, accessed May 22, 2020 .
  17. ↑ David Bownes: Poster Girls: A Century of Art & Design . London Transport Museum, 2018, ISBN 978-1-871829-28-0 .
  18. ↑ Alice Strang: A New Era: Scottish Modern Art 1900-1950 . National Galleries of Scotland, 2017, ISBN 978-1-911054-16-0 .
  19. ↑ Anna Zinkeisen. In: olympedia.org. Retrieved May 25, 2020 .
  20. ↑ Anna Katrina Zinkeisen ( 1901-1976 ) on stjohnsa.com.au. Retrieved May 24, 2020 (pdf)
  21. ^ Church of St Botolph, Burgh. Historic England, accessed May 24, 2020 .
  22. ↑ Zinkesen, Anna Katrina. In: Suffolk Artists. Retrieved May 24, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Zinkeisen, Anna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zinc iron, Anna Katarina; Heseltine, Anna (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish painter and artist
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Kilcreggan
DATE OF DEATH 23rd September 1976
Place of death London