Initialed and dated lower left: E.D.K 36

Private collection, Fredericksburg, Texas.

Edmund Daniel Kinzinger (German/American, 1888-1963) Nude, 1936 Pastel on paper 22-1/2 x 17-1/4 inches (57.2 x 43.8 cm) (sight) Initialed and dated lower left: E.D.K 36 PROVENANCE: Private collection, Fredericksburg, Texas. Born at Pforzheim, Baden, Germany, Edmond Kinzinger studied at the Knirr Schule, Munich, and the Staatliche Akademie in Munich and in Stuttgart. He did further studies at the Academie Moderne in Paris. After serving in the German army during World War I, Kinzinger studied again at the Staatliche Akademie, Stuttgart and then taught in Munich from 1924 to 1928, where he met American Alice Fish, who he married in 1927. The artist taught at the Minneapolis Art Institute in 1928 and at the Minneapolis Art Students League from 1929 to 1930. He painted in Taxco, Mexico, in the summer of 1930. From 1930 until 1933, Kinzinger directed the Hans Hoffmann Schule fur Bildenden Kuntz, Munich, and the Hans Hoffmann "Self-Study Course" in California. He also taught in Spain and St. Tropez, France and later directed the Ecole de l'Epoque, Paris (1933 - 1934). Fleeing Nazi Germany, Kinzinger became chairman of the art department at Baylor University, Waco, Texas in 1935, holding that position until 1948. The artist attended summer sessions at the University of Iowa from 1939 to 1942, writing dissertation on a series of Mexican-themed paintings to earn the first doctorate in fine arts conferred by the University of Iowa. Beginning in 1944, Kinzinger painted summers in Taos, New Mexico, but stopped painting in 1948 due to clinical depression. After living with his son in Wisconsin, he moved to North Carolina where he died of a stroke. Kinzinger showed in most of the major Texas exhibitions during the 1930s and 1940s, including the Texas Centennial, the Greater Texas and Pan American, Texas Panorama, at the Art Institute of Chicago, and the New York World's Fair in 1939. HID12401132022 © 2024 Heritage Auctions | All Rights Reserved

Framed under acrylic. A few scattered scuffs visible. Framed Dimensions 34 X 28 Inches