Tony Bartl

His brother-in-law, Dr Richard Weck, was instrumental in getting Tony Bartl to England on a visa through the Arts Council in 1947.

On arrival, Tony stayed with his sister Katie and Richard in Weybridge at a refugee camp run by Dame Ethel Locke-king, whose husband established Brooklands Racetrack.

They were then to move to Abington Hall, outside Cambridge and in 1948, Marchbank Salmon, the Principal of the Lincoln College of Art invited him to become a lecturer.

In 1955 he had a house built at 5 Gibraltar Hill to designs by the architect Edward Albarn, a conscientious objector, who was a member of a pacifist community based at Holton cum Beckering, near Wragby.

[5] Bartl exhibited in Liverpool at the John Moores Awards and at the Bridlesmith Gate Gallery, Nottingham.