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Doris was the first artist to enter the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp after it was liberated on the 15th April 1945, she would have witnessed the 13,000 unburied bodies and around 60,000 inmates, most acutely sick and starving. Her paintings not only captured the relief work carried out by the British Red Cross, but the disturbing scenes of ...
Doris Zinkeisen was the first artist to enter the infamous Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp after it was liberated on 15th April 1945. She would have witnessed the 13,000 unburied bodies and around 60,000 inmates, most acutely sick and starving. As an artist, she had been commissioned to record what she saw for the British public.
Doris Zinkeisen was born in Gareloch, Argyllshire, but her father's family were originally from Bohemia and had settled in Scotland two hundred years before. Like her younger sister, Anna, Doris attended Harrow School of Art and won a scholarship to the Royal Academy. She was awarded Bronze, Silver and Gold medals at the Salon in Paris.
Artist of 2 portraits. With her sister Anna, Doris Zinkeisen was a familiar figure in the artistic world from the 1920s. Her realist style led to success as a painter of society portraits, horse paintings, and murals for RMS Queen Mary (1935) and RMS Queen Elizabeth (1940). She also produced posters for several railway companies.
Doris Clare Zinkeisen, born 31 July 1897, was a Scottish theatrical stage and costume designer, painter, commercial artist, and writer. She was best known for her work in theatrical design. Doris Zinkeisen was born in Clynder House in Rosneath, Argyll, Scotland. Her parents were Welsh-born Clare Bolton-Charles and Victor Zinkeisen, a shipper, manufacturer and yarn merchant and amateur artist ...
Dotris Zinkeisen. (Scottish 1897-1971) With her sister Anna, Doris Zinkeisen was a familiar figure in the artistic world from the 1920s. Her realist style led to success as a painter of society portraits, horse paintings, and murals for RMS Queen Mary (1935) and RMS Queen Elizabeth (1940). She also produced posters for several railway companies.
Both Anna and Doris were successful and quite well-known painters, chiefly active from the 20s through to the 70s ; Doris also designed for the theatre and worked in commercial illustration; their work included portraiture and this has a distinct Art-Deco feel in the lighting and style of painting, very much in keeping with mainstream work that prevailed between the wars.
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