George Kenner

George Kenner (November 1, 1888 - July 10, 1971) was a German artist. He made 110 paintings and drawings during the First World War while interned as a German civilian prisoner of war in Great Britain and the Isle of Man.

George Kenner  (1888–1971)
	Alternative names	Georg Kennerknecht
	Description	German painter
	Date of birth/death	1 November 1888	10 July 1971
	Location of birth/death	Schwabsoien, Weilheim-Schongau, Bavaria, Germany	Cheltenham, Pennsylvania, United States of America
	Authority file	: Q684176

creator QS:P170,Q684176

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  George Kenner on vacation at the Lake District in Wales.
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  George Kenner, artist, German civilian World War I POW, at Frith Hill POW tent camp in 1915. Near Frimley, in Surrey, England.
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  George Kenner, at Frith Hill POW tent camp in 1915. Painting British POW camp commander's wife and daughter. Near Frimley, in Surrey, England.
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  George Kenner at the Knockaloe internment camp on the Isle of Man PoW Camp, June 8, 1918
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  George Kenner and brother Benno, left foreground, washing salt herrings at the Knockaloe internment camp on the Isle of Man PoW Camp, Oct. 9, 1918
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  George Kenner (2nd from right) and fellow internees at the Knockaloe internment camp on the Isle of Man PoW Camp, Feb. 3, 1918
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  George Kenner at his Sept. 8, 1921 Munich wedding to Grechen, later called Margarete in the US.
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  George Kenner, German civilian World War I POW, wife Margaret, son David on ship Relience from Germany to USA, Sept. 1927
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  Grandpa George Kenner with granddaughter Margo, at his residence in Cheltenham, Pennsylvania, June 24, 1970
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  George Kenner with his violin - 81 yrs old, at his residence in Cheltenham, Pennsylvania, Nov. 1969

Selected art work

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  P.O.W. Camp, A Sunday Morning. Frith Hill POW tent camp, near Frimley, in Surrey, England, July 1915.
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  View Overlooking London from Alexandra Palace with POWs walking around on the hill, watched from several watchtowers, one prisoner holds a large model yacht, October 1915.
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  Alexandra Sports Palace, London, Converted Into Winter Internment Camp, November 1915.
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  Wired-off Terrace for Exercise in Bad Weather for Civilian Pows at Alexandra Palace, February 1916.
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  Overnight Snowfall Melting Into Slush at the Knockaloe internment camp on the Isle of Man, April 1917.
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  View of P.O.W. Camp, Isle of Man. The Knockaloe internment camp near Peel, on the Isle of Man, May 1918.
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  Storm and Rainbow, Symbol for Near End of War, Knockaloe internment camp on the Isle of Man, August 1918.