Peter Flinsch

Peter Flinsch (born 1920 in Leipzig, Germany) is a Canadian artist, best known as a set designer and art director for television programming produced by Télévision de Radio-Canada.

The grandson of German art historian Ulrich Thieme^[1], Flinsch was forced into military service with the Hitler Youth and the Luftwaffe during the Nazi Germany era, but was expelled from the military in 1942 after his homosexuality was discovered.^[1] Following the collapse of the Third Reich in 1945, Flinsch began working as a theatre designer in Leipzig and Berlin and later as a publicity designer for Air France in Munich.

He subsequently moved to Vancouver in 1953, reuniting with his friend and lover Heino Heiden, a dancer and choreographer with whom Flinsch cofounded the Vancouver Ballet. He finally settled in Montreal to work for Radio-Canada, where he worked for over 30 years and won an Anik Award for Best Television Design in 1981 for his work on L'Espion aux yeux verts. Following his retirement from Radio-Canada in 1985, he began to exhibit his own artwork in drawing, painting and sculpture.^[1]

The Body in Question, a biography of Flinsch which includes 110 pages of his artwork, was published in 2008 by writer Ross Higgins.^[2]

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