Peter Flinsch

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Peter Flinsch at the Dentaire Gallery in Montreal (2005)

Peter Flinsch (born April 22, 1920 in Leipzig , † March 30, 2010 in Montreal , Québec ) was a German emigrant and Canadian artist. He became known as the studio designer for the French-language television network of Canada Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) .

Life

His father was a paper manufacturer from the Flinsch family of industrialists throughout Germany , while his mother came from a family of banking and business people. He grew up in his grandfather's house. Flinsch was the grandson of the German art historian Ulrich Thieme ., The founder of the Thieme-Becker-Künstler-Lexikon. His parents 'marriage ended in divorce and his mother moved back to her parents' home with him. The grandfather had since died. Peter's childhood was largely determined by growing up in this artistic home, especially since his grandfather owned a large art collection from the Italian Renaissance and Dutch artists, which made a great impression on him. During the Nazi era, Flinsch belonged to the Hitler Youth and was deployed as an anti-aircraft soldier in the Air Force during World War II . After he was seen kissing a man after a Christmas party in 1942, Flinsch was charged under Section 175 . As a punishment, he was transferred to a mine clearance party where he fell ill with malaria .

After the end of the war, Flinsch began to work as a set designer in Leipzig and Berlin in 1945 and later became an interior designer for the Air France representative office in Munich .

In 1953 he finally emigrated to Vancouver , where he met his friend and partner Heino Heiden , who was the artistic director and choreographer of the Vancouver Ballet Company at the time. Flinsch settled in Montreal to work for Radio Canada, for which he ended up working for over 30 years.

Flinsch won the Anik Award for best television design in 1981 for the program L'Espion aux yeux verts . After retiring from Radio Canada in 1985, he started exhibiting his own visual art (drawings, paintings and sculptures).

publication

  • The Body in Question , his biography written by Ross Higgins, contains 110 pages on Flinsch's work and was published by Arsenal Pulp Press in 2008.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ArtsQuebec: Peter Flinsch
  2. ^ Richard Burnett: Another Country . In Hour , September 11, 2008.
  3. ^ The Body in Question
  4. ↑ Book: Peter Flinsch: The Body in Question ( Memento from May 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). In Xtra! West , September 11, 2008.

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personal data
SURNAME Flinsch, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Canadian room and TV designer
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH March 30, 2010
Place of death Montreal