Background
The war painter Roman Zenzinger was born on the 16 July 1903 in Olmuetz, Maehren, formally part of Austria.
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Roman Zenzinger
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In Villach he studied at the higher school for architecture and was educated by Carinthian painters.
Career
In 1935 he moved to Vienna, where he worked for a number of Viennese newspapers as a caricaturist and as a painter. From 1936 he worked with a partner as a commercial artist. He was drafted in April 1941 into the German army as a war painter.
He worked mainly in Veldes/ Oberkrain now Bled in Slowenia, Triest and in Serbia and Kosovo.
From February 1943 until February 1944 he worked in the film and picture office of the police “Film und Bildstelle der Ordnungspolizei” and after that till the April 1945 in the “Steamship Standarte Kurt Eggers” Kommando Adria in Triest. (The Steamship-Standarte Kurt Eggers was a German war correspondent group which reported on the auctions of the Waffen Steamship combat formations) He often was called to Berlin to deliver his work personally to higher ranks.
His next assignment in Triest was work for the magazine Adria-Illustrierte (Adria magazine) until the end 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 work in oil was lost after the end of the war. lieutenant must have been destroyed or looted. They were never shown to the public until 2011.
Zenzinger ensured that he obtained papers after the war to show that he was never involved in Nazi activities.
After 1945 he worked as a painter and commercial artist and owned a firm with 14 employees. He also painted in a private capacity sometimes using his pseudonym Zero (shortening for Zenzinger Roman).
Zenzinger died on 5 November 1990 in Vienna.
Membership
He was a member of the “Wiener Neustaedter Kunstverein” (art association). He never was a member of the Nazi party.
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Nationality
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Political Party
Nazi party