Doris Zinkeisen

Doris Clare Zinkeisen was a Scottish theatrical stage and costume designer, painter, commercial artist and writer. She was best known for her work in theatrical design.

Doris Zinkeisen was born in Rosneath, Argyll, Scotland. Her parents were Welshborn Clare BoltonCharles and Victor Zinkeisen, a timber merchant and amateur artist from Glasgow. Her fathers family were originally from Bohemia and had been settled in Scotland for two hundred years. She had a younger sister, Anna Zinkeisen who also became an artist. The family left Scotland and moved to Pinner, near Harrow in 1909. Zinkeisen attended the Harrow School of Art for four years and won a scholarship to the Royal Academy Schools in 1917 together with her sister Anna.

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