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Anna Zinkeisen, Doris' Sister
Anna Katrina Zinkeisen wasn't quite as glamorous as her older sister Doris..., but she seems to have been the better artist.
Anna could vary her style when called for. Some murals done in the 1930s are busy (as most murals should be) and painted in a mannered way. Her portrait work, on the other hand, was usually solidly, strikingly done, making use of smoothed, slightly simplified surfaces on her subjects' faces, hands, etc.
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Anna Katrina Zinkeisen (29 Aug. 1901 - 23 Sept. 1976) (married Heseltine); Scottish painter and artist.
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. 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. 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 specialize in portrait painting and mural work....
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. After completing a day's shift working on a ward as a casualty nurse, Zinkeisen would use a disused operating theatre as her studio to work on her paintings. During the conflict she painted scenes in 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 her painting of the plastic surgeon Sir Archibald McIndoe are both exhibited at...
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