Henry Inlander 1925-1983

Henry Inlander was a painter, born in Vienna in 1925. He lived in Trieste from 1935 to 1938, and settled in England shortly after. He studied at St Martin's School of Art from 1939, and at Camberwell School of Art after that until 1946. In 1947 he became a British Subject, and two years later he began studying at the Slade School under Coldstream, Rogers, Pasmore and Gowing. In 1952 he was awarded a Rome Scholarship, and the following year his first solo exhibition was held at the Rome Galleria La Tartaruga. His first solo exhibition in London took place in 1956 at the Leicester Galleries. Two years later he was awarded the Sicily Premio Acitrezza, and the Harkness Commonwealth Fellowship to the United States in 1960. Henry died in 1983.