Doris Zinkeisen
(1897-1991), Painter, stage-set and costume designer, writer and equestrian championDoris Clare Zinkeisen
Sitter in 22 portraits
Artist of 2 portraits
With her sister Anna, Doris Zinkeisen was a familiar figure in the artistic world from the 1920s. Her realist style led to success as a painter of society portraits, horse paintings, and murals for RMS Queen Mary (1935) and RMS Queen Elizabeth (1940). She also produced posters for several railway companies. She is best known, however, for the numerous stage designs that she produced during the 1920s and 1930s. During the Second World War, she worked for the St John Ambulance Brigade, and as a war artist made drawings of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after its liberation, which are held in the Imperial War Museum.
by Yevonde
Vivex colour print, January 1936
NPG P1838
by Yevonde
bromide print on velvet card mount, 1936
NPG x29818
Doris Zinkeisen working on the panels for the Grill Room of the Queen Mary
by Harold Tomlin, for Daily Herald
modern bromide print from original negative, 8 January 1936
NPG x135105
Doris Zinkeisen working on the panels in the Grill Room of the RMS Queen Mary
by Yevonde
tri-colour separation negative, January 1936
NPG x220842
Doris Zinkeisen working on the panels in the Grill Room of the RMS Queen Mary
by Yevonde
tri-colour separation negative, January 1936
NPG x220828
Doris Zinkeisen working on the panels in the Grill Room of the RMS Queen Mary
by Yevonde
tri-colour separation negative, January 1936
NPG x220829
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1936
NPG x24299
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1936
NPG x24300
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1936
NPG x24301
Sir Ralph Richardson; Doris Zinkeisen
by Unknown photographer
vintage print, 1946
NPG x138013
Sir Charles Blake Cochran; Doris Zinkeisen; Honoria Plesch
by Keystone Press Agency Ltd
bromide press print, 2 April 1946
NPG x184324
by Yevonde
black and white reprint, circa 1955
NPG x131755
by Lucinda Douglas-Menzies
bromide fibre print, 1990
NPG x35166
Related People
- Anne Grahame Johnstone (daughter)
- Janet Grahame Johnstone (daughter)
- Julia Heseltine (niece)
- Anna Katrina Zinkeisen (sister)
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Philip Kelleway
07 March 2017, 09:43
Please note that Doris Zinkeisen was in fact born in the year 1897, NOT 1898 as in your information on the NPG site. I have previously sent copies of Doris Zinkeisen's birth certificate to the NPG and received acknowledgement from Rosie Broadley (Associate Curator), so these items should be on file at the NPG Library. Other sites use the wrong year of birth too and for a few years your site used the correct year, but it seems that each time you change the layout of your pages, you revert back to the incorrect date.
Best Wishes,
Philip Kelleway (Dr)