(1888-1963) Kinzinger was born in Germany and first studied at the Munich Academy. He then moved to Stuttgart where he studied under Adolf Hölzel, and in 1919 founded the 'Üecht' group with other students such as Oskar Schlemmer and Willi Baumeister. He met his wife, American Alice Fish, in 1927. They traveled and he taught throughout the United States and Europe, and he was chairman of the art department at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, for thirteen years.