Henry (Heinz) Inlander

1925 - 1983

Inlander was born in Vienna into a Jewish family, which with the rise of Nazism moved to Trieste in 1935, subsequently fleeing to England in 1938. Inlander studied at St Martin's School of Art in 1939–41 and Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts in 1945–46, then moving on in 1949 to the Slade School of Art, where he won the Summer Composition Prize and the Prix de Rome in 1952. Peter Lanyon was also in Italy, on an Italian Government scholarship, and in 1953 they travelled and rented a house together in the hill-village artists' colony of Antcoli Corrado, 50 miles to the east of Rome. Inlander remained in Italy until 1956, exhibing his work there, and later returned with his wife Antonia to acquire a house in Anticoli Corrado, painting the surrounding landscape over subsequent decades., While Inlander's connection to Italy lasted his lifetime, he also spent time in the USA and Canada in the 1960s. He returned to the Camberwell School of Art as a Visiting Lecturer (in 1957) and later as Head of Painting. He exhibited in London's Leicester Galleries, at Roland, Browse & Delbanco, the New Art Centre, the Royal Academy, as part of the London Group and at Ben Uri Art Society. He died in London after attending a Camberwell School of Art party. Inlander’s work is in museums and other collections around the world.