Peter Flinsch (see also 7.23.11) 
was born in 1920 in Leipzig, Germany. When he was 35, he settled in Montreal where he joined the newly formed Radio-Canada as a designer and art director. In 1985 Flinsch left Radio-Canada 
giving full expression to his art with solo shows in Montreal, Toronto, Amsterdam, Berlin, Hamburg, died in March 2010.
Peter Flinsch, died in March 2010 at the age of eighty-nine, for more than 60 years 
has produced hundreds of paintings, drawings, and sculptures which depict the eroticized male body. 
In 2006, he won the first Lifetime Achievement Award from the Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation in New York. The renowned Montreal artist Peter Flinsch was born in Leipzig in 1920 nad conscripted into the German anti-aircraft artillery of the Luftwaffe in 1938. When he was spied kissing another man following a Christmas party in Berlin in 1942, he was sentenced to serve in a disciplinary unit made up of criminals whose job was to clear mines on the front lines, which basically amounted to a death sentence. After the war Flinsch moved to Paris, then Vancouver where he co-founded the Vancouver Ballet, and then, in 1952, to Montreal where he was a costume and set designer for Radio-Canada for 33 years. 
Recently, local gay historian Ross Higgins has published "Peter Flinsch: The Body in Question".
