Anna Zinkeisen

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Anna Zinkeisen
Royal Academy Schools
Known forPainting
SpouseGuy Heseltine

Anna Katrina Zinkeisen (29 August 1901 – 23 September 1976) was a Scottish painter and artist.

Biography

Archibald McIndoe, Consultant in Plastic Surgery to the Royal Air Force, operating at the Queen Victoria Plastic and Jaw Injury centre, East Grinstead by Anna Zinkeisen, 1944

Zinkeisen was born in

Royal Academy Schools.[2] 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.[3]
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

John Brown and Company to paint murals on the ocean liner RMS Queen Mary.[4] Their work can still be seen, in the Verandah Grill room, on the ship now permanently moored in Long Beach, California.[5] 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 Cycle and Cycle Show, Olympia 5–10 November 1935 for London Transport.[6][7] 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

Prince Philip, Sir Alexander Fleming and Lord Beaverbrook.[3] Towards the end of the war London Underground commissioned Zinkeisen to produce a poster anticipating the end of the conflict. Her design showed a woman leading a family away from the war to sunlit fields over a quote from Winston Churchill.[12]

In 1944, Anna and Doris Zinkeisen were commissioned by United Steel Companies (USC) to produce twelve paintings which were reproduced in the trade and technical press in Britain, Canada, Australia and South Africa. The images were subsequently collated in a book, This Present Age, published in 1946.[13][4] Her work was also part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1948 Summer Olympics.[14]

Anna Zinkeisen painted a mural, showing birds of the Bible (c. 1967), in memory of her husband Col. Guy Heseltine in St Botolph's church, Burgh, Suffolk.[15] This mural had originally been intended as a memorial for the late King George VI (1895-1952) for the Royal Chapel at Windsor Great Park commissioned in 1962, but cancelled in 1964.[16]

References

  1. ISBN 978-1-913491-81-9.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link
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  2. ^ Britta C.Dwyer. "The Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women - The Zinkeisen sisters". Edinburgh University Press. Archived from the original on 7 August 2007. Retrieved 30 October 2013.
  3. ^
    ISBN 1-85149-134-1
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  4. ^ a b c Alicia Foster (25 May 2020). "Sister art: Doris and Anna Zinkeisen". Art UK. Retrieved 17 July 2020.
  5. ISBN 1-85149-106-6
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  6. ISBN 978-0-9551994-9-3
    ., pp.107-113.
  7. ^ "Poster Girls exhibition showcases forgotten design heroines". BBC News. 13 October 2017. Retrieved 13 October 2017.
  8. ISBN 0-7553-1028-4
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  9. ISBN 978-1-85437-989-4
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  10. ^ "Anna Zinkeisen". National Portrait Gallery, London.
  11. ^ "Sir Archibald Hector McIndoe". National Portrait Gallery, London.
  12. ISBN 978-1-871829-28-0
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  13. ISBN 9781911054160
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  14. ^ "Anna Zinkeisen". Olympedia. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
  15. ^ Historic England. "CHURCH OF ST BOTOLPH (1197947)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 30 March 2014.
  16. ISBN 978-1-911311-01-0
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