Carl Winter
{{Short description|British art historian and museum curator (1906–1966)}}
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1906|1|10}}
| birth_place = Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1966|05|21|1906|01|10}}
| death_place = Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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| spouse = {{marriage|Theadora Barlow|1936|1953|end=div}}
| occupation = museum curator
| employer = Victoria & Albert Museum; Fitzwilliam Museum
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| children = 2 sons and 1 daughter
| education = Xavier College, Newman College, Exeter College, Oxford
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Carl Winter (10 January 1906 – 21 May 1966) was a British art historian and museum curator. He worked at the Victoria & Albert Museum's collection of English watercolours and miniature portraits before moving to the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge in 1946 following the end of the Second World War.[http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20120203131515/http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/people%2Dpages/obituary%2Dcarl%2Dwinter/ Obituary of Carl Winter], Victoria and Albert Museum, citing an obituary in The Times newspaper.[http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/gallery/friends/section2.html Mid-20th century consolidation: Louis Clarke & Carl Winter], Fitzwilliam Museum.
Background
Winter was born in Melbourne, Australia, the son of Carl Winter and his wife Ethel (née Hardy). He was educated at Xavier College and Newman College, University of Melbourne. He moved to England in 1928 and attended Exeter College, Oxford.{{citation needed|date=September 2021}}
Career
Winter was appointed as an assistant keeper in the Departments of Engraving, Illustration and Design, and of Paintings, at the Victoria & Albert Museum in 1931, where he worked with Basil Long, leading the department after Long's death in 1936. He was appointed as deputy keeper there in 1945, but moved to become director and Morley Curator at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge in 1946, and also a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, where he remained until his death in 1966. He published Elizabethan Miniatures in 1943 and The British School of Miniature Portrait Painters in 1948.{{citation needed|date=September 2021}}
Along with Patrick Trevor-Roper and Peter Wildeblood, Winter gave evidence to the Wolfenden Committee, whose report led in 1967 to the decriminalization of sex between adult male homosexuals.{{cite book|author=Matt Houlbrook|title=Queer London: Perils And Pleasures in the Sexual Metropolis, 1918-1957|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wyV9ejoQRS4C&pg=PA255|accessdate=16 May 2012|date=15 October 2006|publisher=University of Chicago Press|isbn=978-0-226-35462-0|page=255|via=Google Books}}{{cite book|author=Jeffrey Weeks|title=The World We Have Won: The Remaking of Erotic and Intimate Life|date=10 September 2007|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-0-415-42200-0|page=53 }} He gave evidence anonymously as "Mr White".{{Citation|publisher = Fourth Estate|isbn = 1857023552|ol = 19645005M|location = London|title = Heterosexual dictatorship|author = Patrick Higgins|date = 1996|id = 1857023552|pages=41–44}} His testimony to the committee has been portrayed on-screen in the BBC dramatisation, Consenting Adults.{{citation needed|date=September 2021}}
Personal life and death
Winter married Theodora (née Barlow) in 1936 and divorced in 1953. They had two sons and a daughter.{{citation needed|date=September 2021}} He died aged 60 on 21 May 1966.{{citation needed|date=September 2021}}
References
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External links
- [http://trinitycollegechapel.com/about/memorials/brasses/winter/ Carl Winter], Trinity College Chapel
- [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U52064 WINTER, Carl], Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014
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Category:People from Melbourne
Category:People educated at Xavier College
Category:University of Melbourne alumni
Category:Australian expatriates in England
Category:Alumni of Exeter College, Oxford
Category:20th-century English LGBTQ people
Category:People associated with the Victoria and Albert Museum