Artist Peter Flinsch was born in Leipzig, Germany in 1920. He was
drafted into compulsory military service during the Second World War.
He was discovered embracing another man and was court-martialed. He was
imprisoned and then sent to a punitive work detail. This may have saved
his life because his former unit was sent to the Eastern Front.
After the war he returned to Leipzig, then moved to Berlin and finally
Paris. In 1953 he immigrated to Canada. In 1955 he moved to Montreal,
Quebec where he spent the rest of his life. He worked as a television
set designer at Radio-Canada (the French language service of the
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation).
His artistic work continued at home in his studio. He drew, painted and
sculpted until the late 1990's when he had a small stroke. After his
death on March 30, 2010, there remained on the wall of his studio his
motto "A painting a day keeps the doctor away".
Over the years he had exhibitions in Montreal, New York, Toronto,
Berlin, Düsseldorf, Cape Town, Hamburg, Hagan and Lubeck.