EDMUND KINZINGER (1888-1963) Edmund Kinzinger was born in 1888 at Pforzheim, Grand Duchy of Baden, German Empire. Growing up in a minor aristocratic family, Kinzinger pursued his passion for art through a variety of schools in Germany in Paris, studying with Leger and Matisse. He was also a master student of Adolph Holzel’s during his time in Germany. In 1914, Kinzinger entered the German army as a private solider and after nearly five years at the front and two wounds, rose to command an artillery unit until his discharge in 1918.After he returned, Kinzinger taught in Munich from 1924 to 1928. In the summer of 1928, he traveled to the United States to teach at the Minneapolis Art Institute and later the Minneapolis Students league. When he returned to Germany, Kinzinger was director of the Hans Hoffman Schule for Bildende Kuntz, Munich and the Hoffman Self-Study Course in California. During the same three year period from 1930 to 1933, he taught in both Spain and St. Tropez and served as director of the Ecole de l’Epoque in Paris.In 1935, Kinzinger fled Nazi Germany and settled in Texas, becoming the chairman of the art department at Baylor University. Kinzinger would hold the position for the following thirteen years. From 1939 to 1942, Kinzinger attended summer sessions at the University of Iowa and his 1942 doctorate earned him the first PhD in fine arts awarded by the university. Kinzinger continued work until 1948 and moved to Wisconsin, leaving his unique Modernist mark upon the Texas art scene. Selected Biographical and Career Highlights1888, Born at Pforzheim, Grand Duchy of Baden, German Empire1908-1910, Attends the Knirr Scule, Munich, Germany1909-1910, Attends the Staatliche Akademie, Munich, Germany1910-1912, Attends the Staatliche Akademie Stuttgart, Germany1912-1913, Graduate student at the Academie Moderne, Paris, France1913-1914, Master student at the Staatliche Akademie, Stuttgart, Germany1914, Enters the German army1918, Released from active service1919-1921, Studies at the Staatliche Akademie, Stuttgart, Germany1924-1928, Teaches in Munich, Germany1935, Becomes chairman of the art department, Baylor University, Waco, Texas1960, Dies in North CarolinaSelected ExhibitionsArt Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IllinoisMuseum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TexasSelected Public CollectionsDallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TexasMuscarelle Museum of Art, The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VirginiaMuseum of Fine Arts, Houston, TexasSan Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TexasStudied: Knirr Schule, Munich (1908-1910); State Academies in Munich (1909-1910) and Stuttgart (1910-1914, 1919-1921); Adolph Holzel; Henrich Waldschmidt; Académie Moderne, Paris (graduate, 1913); University of Iowa, Ames (Ph.D., 1942). Member: Southern States Art League; Texas Fine Arts Association; Lone Star Printmakers. Exhibitions: Galerie Pierre, Paris, 1933, (solo); Bloomsbury Gallery, London, England, 1933; Rouillier Gallery, Chicago,1935; Art Institute of Chicago, 1935, Window on the Bay of Cadaques, 1935, (solo), 1938; Texas Centennial Exposition, Dallas, 1936, Italian Shepherd, Dallas School of Creative Arts, 1937; Greater Dallas and Pan-American Exposition, Dallas, 1937, Mexican Girls, Italian Shepherds, National Exhibition of American Art, Rockefeller Center, New York, 1937, 1938; Baylor University, 1937, (solo), 1944, 1946, 1949; Southeast Texas Artists Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1937, Aztec Girl, House in Taxco, 1938, Mexican Couple, Spanish Fisher Woman, Two Mexican Women, (prize), 1939, Peasant Woman, Still Life, Window on Spanish Bay, (honorable mention); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1939, (solo); Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio, 1938, (solo), 1944, (solo); Three German Artists, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1938, joint with Karl Zerbe and Josef Albers), including Portrait of a Brunette, Mexican Couple, Spanish Fisher Woman, Woman with Fruit Basket, Seacoast Vista; Golden Jubilee Exposition, State Fair of Texas, Dallas, 1938, Taxco Girl with Water Jar, American Art Today Exhibition, New York World's Fair, 1939, Mexican Girl on Porch; Golden Gate International Exposition, San Francisco, 1939; West Texas Artists Exhibition, Fort Worth, 1939, Mexican Family, 1940, Italian Shepherd (prize), 1944, 1946, Still Life (prize); Beaumont Woman's Club, 1939, (prize); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1939; Texas Fine Arts Association, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, Mexican Children (honorable mention), 1943, Mexican Porch (prize), 1944, Taos Pueblo (watercolor) (honorable mention), 1945; Lone Star Printmakers, 1940, Italian Peasant Woman, Mexican People, 1941, Mexican Mother and Child, Mexican Woman (lithograph), 1942, Drying Sails, Resting Fishermen; American Art Week Exhibition, Waco, 1940; Texas General/Texas Painting and Sculpture Exhibition, 1940, Mexican Family, 1941, Mexican Children, 1941, Conversation, 1942, French Fishermen, On Lake Michigan, 1943, Colored Girl, Still Life with Red Vase (pastel) (prize), 1944, At the Fountain, 1945, FIsher Harbor in Brittany (print), Masks (linocut), 1947, Mexican People (triptych) (prize); No-Jury Exhibition, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1941; Fort Worth Art Association, 1941, Nearo Cint Southern States Art League, 1941, Taxco Girl, 1942, Mexican Market Woman, Mexican Group (lithographs); Texas Print Exhibition, Dallas, 1941, 1942, Mexican Woman, Drying Sails (lithographs), 1943, Arranging Her Hair (silk screen) (prize), French Fishermen (lithograph), 1944, Nocturne (lithograph), 1947, Arranging Her Hair, Peasant Girl (prize) (serigraphs); Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, 1942, (solo); Texas-Oklahoma General, 1942, Mexican Children; Lithography Exhibition, Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, 1942; Texas Colleges Art Faculty Exhibition, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1942, (solo), 1943, (prize), 1944, (honorable mention), 1945, 1948; International Exhibition of Prints and Drawings, Elisabet Ney Museum, Austin, 1943; Texas Panorama Exhibition, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1943, Mexican Family and American Federation of Arts Traveling Exhibition, 1944, Mexican Family, American Federation of Arts Traveling Exhibition, 1944; Corpus Christi Caller-Times Exhibition, 1944; Texas Artists, Fort Worth Art Association, 1947; Blue Door Gallery, Taos, 1947, (solo); Southwest Art, Mexia Woman's Friday Club, 1947, Mexican Porch, Return from Market, Mexican Girl; Twelve New Mexico Pastelists, University of New Mexico Traveling Exhibition, 1947, Return From the Fountain. Collections: San Antonio Museum of Art; University of lowa, Ames, Mexican People (triptych); Dallas Museum of Art, Mexican Family, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Two Mexican Children, Women, (lithograph); Baylor University, Waco, Portrait-T. E. McDonald; Muscarelle Museum of Art, The College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia.