Peter Flinsch
Peter Flinsch(April 22, 1920 – March 30, 2010) was aGerman Canadianartist, who worked as a set designer and art director for television programming produced byRadio-Canadathe French language service of theCanadian Broadcasting Corporation.
He was born inLeipzig,Germany, the grandson of German art historianUlrich Thieme.[1]Flinsch, like many young Germans during theNaziera, was obliged to join theHitler Youth.At the onset of theSecond World Warhe decided to fulfill his military obligation and joined the anti-aircraft artillery of theLuftwaffe.In 1942, after a Christmas party, he was spotted kissing another man[2]and was charged under section175-1of theThird Reich's criminal code. He was sentenced to a disciplinary minesweeping unit where being overworked, underfed, and mistreated by fellow convicts he developedmalaria.
At the end of the war in 1945, Flinsch began working as a theatre designer in Leipzig and Berlin and later as a publicity designer forAir FranceinMunich.
He subsequently moved toVancouverin 1953, reuniting with his friend and lover Heino Heiden who was then the artistic director and choreographer for the Vancouver Ballet Company. He finally settled in Montreal to work for Radio-Canada, where he worked for over 30 years and won an Anik Award for Best Television Design in 1981 for his work onL'Espion aux yeux verts.Following his retirement from Radio-Canada in 1985, he began to exhibit his own artwork in drawing, painting, and sculpture.
In 1992 during the rebranding of CBC, he appeared in the Day After Day/Jour Apres Jour video for sign on & sign offs for CBC affiliates which appeared on screens as early as 1996.
In 1998, one of his friends suggested that he display his art on theInternet.Initially he resisted the idea. With much persuasion, his web presence was born. Eventually he enjoyed being contacted from complete strangers who were interested in his work, or the story of his life.
His web site also brought him into contact with an old lover from Paris in the 1940s, and a distant relative (see:Flinsch Peak).
The Body in Question,[3]a biography by Ross Higgins which includes 110 pages of Flinsch's artwork, was published in 2008 byArsenal Pulp Press.[4]
He died inMontreal,Quebecon March 30, 2010.[5]
References
[edit]- ^Peter FlinschArchived2011-02-10 at theWayback Machineat ArtsQuebec.
- ^Richard Burnett,"Another Country"Archived2015-09-24 at theWayback Machine.Hour,September 11, 2008.
- ^""The Body in Question"".Archived fromthe originalon 2010-09-17.Retrieved2009-11-05.
- ^"Book: Peter Flinsch: The Body in Question"Archived2011-05-26 at theWayback Machine.Xtra! West,September 11, 2008.
- ^"Artist Peter Flinsch dies: 1920-2010"Archived2010-04-06 at theWayback Machine.Xtra!,March 31, 2010.
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