Anna Zinkeisen
| Anna Zinkeisen | |
|---|---|
| Born | 29 August 1901 Kilcreggan |
| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. London |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | |
| Known for | Painting |
| Spouse(s) | Guy Heseltine |
Anna Katrina Zinkeisen (29 August 1901 - 23 September 1976) (married Heseltine) was a Scottish painter and artist.
Biography
Zinkeisen was born in Kilcreggan, the daughter of Clare Bolton-Charles and Victor Zinkeisen, a timber merchant. The family moved to Middlesex in 1909. Anna and her sister Doris were privately educated at home before they attended the Harrow School of Art from where they both won scholarships to the Royal Academy Schools.[1] Anna studied sculpture at the Royal Academy Schools between 1916 and 1921, winning silver and bronze medals, and first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1919.[2] She received a commission for some plaques from the Wedgwood company and although these designs were awarded a silver medal at the Exposition des Art Decoratifs in Paris in 1925, Zinkeisen decided to specialise in portrait painting and mural work.
In 1935, Anna and Doris Zinkeisen were commissioned by the Clydebank shipbuilders John Brown and Company to paint murals on the ocean liner RMS Queen Mary. Their work can still be seen, in the Verandah Grill room, on the ship now permanently moored in Long Beach, California.[3] At this time Anna was also working on a number of illustrations for books and magazine covers as well as designing posters, such as Merry-go-round and Motor Cyle and Cycle Show, Olympia 5–10 November 1935 for London Transport.[4] In 1940 both sisters also contributed murals to the liner RMS Queen Elizabeth.
During World War II, Anna Zinkeisen worked as a Medical Artist and nursing auxiliary in the Order of St John at St. Mary's Hospital, Paddington. She made pathological drawings of war injuries for the Royal College of Surgeons.[5] During the conflict she painted other scenes in the hospital and also depictions of air-raid victims.[2] Her self-portrait and her painting of the plastic surgeon Sir Archibald McIndoe are both exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery (London).[6][7] Among her other portrait subjects were HRH Prince Phillip, Sir Alexander Fleming and Lord Beaverbrook.[2]
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Further reading
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- 1901 births
- 1976 deaths
- 20th-century British painters
- 20th-century women artists
- Alumni of the Royal Academy Schools
- British poster artists
- British war artists
- Female wartime nurses
- Medical illustrators
- People from Argyll and Bute
- Scottish women artists
- World War II artists
