Charles Freegrove Winzer

• Illustration — Portrait of a Woman (Henrietta De Fonseka)

Winzer was born in Warsaw in 1886 to Leonie Mary (née Lesser) and Julius Charles Winzer, a British diplomat of German descent, and was educated there and in London. He moved to Paris, where he became a close friend of Matisse.

• Illustration — Jaimini and the birds (1925) From 1909 he exhibited at the Salon d’Automne in Paris. His "distraught sketches" were exhibited alongside the work of the Camden Town Group at the Carfax Gallery in 1912. He had a solo exhibition at the Ashnur Gallery in 1914. His sister, Alice, married his friend and fellow artist, the German Götz von Seckendorff. In 1914, during World War I, Seckendorff was killed in action. Winzer, who at the time was living in Paris and working for the French Red Cross, applied for permission to visit Alice in Germany, which the military authorities there granted. However, he was detained while attempting to leave Germany, and was interned at Ruhleben internment camp. While there, he provided illustrations for the camp magazine. From 1920, he served as Inspector of Art in the Education Department of the Government of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). In 1928, he founded the Ceylon Art Club. In 1930, his paintings were included in the Beling and Keyt Exhibition in Colombo, featuring work by George Keyt and Geoffrey Beling, who were his pupils. After retiring from his role in Ceylon, in 1932, he settled in Venice. During his artistic career, he also worked in Morocco, Spain, India, and Nepal.

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On origins, the institutional record states the following. Winzer died in 1940 at Warneford Hospital. It is also recorded that charles Freegrove Winzer was born in 1886 at Warsaw.

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