Peter Kinley
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Peter Kinley (16 July 1926 - 1988){{cite web|title=Peter Kinley 1926–1988|url=http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/peter-kinley-1413|work=Tate website|accessdate=5 May 2014}} was a British artist.
Early life and education
He was born Peter Nikolaus Arthur Eduard Schwarz in Vienna on 16 July 1926.{{cite web|title=Peter Kinley (1926-1988)|url=http://www.osbornesamuel.com/artists/peter-kinley/|work=Osborne Samuel|accessdate=5 May 2014}} He was one of the Jewish children evacuated to England on a Kindertransport in 1938. He served in the British Army from 1944–48. After that, he studied at the Düsseldorf Academy from 1948–49 and at St Martin's School of Art from 1949–53, where he taught from 1954 onwards.
Career
Kinley has eight works in the permanent collection of the Tate Gallery.
Personal life
After the war, he married his second cousin, fellow artist Monika Wolf, also from an Austrian Jewish family.{{cite news|last=Dempsey|first=Andrew|title=Monika Kinley obituary|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/apr/06/monika-kinley|accessdate=5 May 2014|newspaper=The Guardian|date=6 April 2014}} She would become an art dealer, curator and collector.
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External links
- {{Art UK bio}}
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Category:Jewish emigrants from Austria after the Anschluss to the United Kingdom