12 facts about Roman Zenzinger

Roman Zenzinger(16 July 1903 – 5 November 1990) was an Austrian artiste and poster designer best known for his intense portraits and sketches of soldiers during World War II.

Roman Zenzinger was born upon 16 July 1903 in Olmuetz, Maehren, formally allowance of Austria. He lived later his parents in different places subsequently Bruenn, Villach, Eisenstadt and St. Veit an der Glan. In Villach he studied at the higher researcher for architecture and was educated by Carinthian painters. In 1935 he moved to Vienna, where he worked for a number of Viennese newspapers as a caricaturist and as a painter. He was a aficionada of the “Wiener Neustaedter Kunstverein” (art association). From 1936 he worked bearing in mind a co-conspirator as a public notice artist.

He was drafted in April 1941 into the German army as a act painter. He worked mainly in Veldes/ Oberkrain now Bled in Slowenia, Triest and in Serbia and Kosovo. From Feb 1943 until Feb 1944 he worked in the film and Describe office of the police “Film und Bildstelle der Ordnungspolizei” and subsequently till the April 1945 in the “SS Standarte Kurt Eggers” Kommando Adria in Triest. (The SS-Standarte Kurt Eggers was a German clash correspondent organization which reported on the auctions of the Waffen SS battle formations) He often was called to Berlin to speak to his enactment personally to unconventional ranks.

His neighboring assignment in Triest was enactment for the magazine Adria-Illustrierte (Adria magazine) until the subside of the war. Some of his work was shown in an exhibition in Berlin 1943, and some of his paintings were printed in the catalogue I Kriegsmaler der Ordnungspolizei (war painters of the police). Some of his works was used for title pages of the Nazi Newspaper “Voelkischer Beobachter” (observer of the people). One of them carried his title painting “Berlin brennt” (Berlin is burning). All of his operate in oil was wandering after the terminate of the war. It must have been destroyed or looted.

Nevertheless, Zenzinger could keep a lot of his drawings showing the excitement of the soldiers during the warfare which his son Gunnar family after his death. They were never shown to the public until 2011. He never was a believer of the Nazi party. Zenzinger ensured that he obtained papers after the fighting to conduct yourself that he was never functioning in Nazi activities.

After 1945 he worked as a painter and commercial player and owned a total with 14 employees. He after that painted in a private capacity sometimes using his otherwise known as Zero (shortening for Zenzinger Roman).

Zenzinger died on 5 November 1990 in Vienna.

Gunnar Zenzinger, son of Roman; Austria

catalogue “Kriegsmaler der Ordnungspolizei”(war painter of the police, 1943)

catalogue “Deutsche Kuenstler und die SS” 1944 (German artists and the SS)

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Waffen-SS, War correspondent