Kinszki was born in Budapest in 1901. It is known that his first photographs were taken in 1921. He was first published in News of the Photography in 1931 and in 1932 he wrote an article on the Bauhaus aesthetic. Kinszki also contributed extensively to the publication of American Photography and Popular Photography in London.

In 1937, he was a founding member of the group Modern Hungarian Photographers, which was an informal circle of artists close in spirit to the New Objectivity. In 1939, they edited the first collaborative publication by the society, The Hungarian Photography. In 1927 he was among the founding members of the Modern Hungarian Photographers group and in the same year he organised, together with Ern Vadas and Gusztáv Seiden, the Daguerre centenary international photo exhibition.

We know from preserved correspondence that Kinszki was in contact with László Moholy-Nagy, Paul Wolff, Brassai and Albert Renger-Patzsch. His knowledge of languages, widespread correspondence, and friends (doctor Lajos Székely, philosopher Aurél Kolnai and art dealer Imre Róna) allowed him to stay abreast of world events and trends.

Imre Kinszki was born in a Jewish bourgeois intelligentsia family, which determined his future fate to an extent. He could not graduate from university even though he had published his natural philosophy writings in the Huszadik Század and the Századunk when he was only 18. After the so-called Jewish laws came to force in Hungary Kinszki wrote letters to his acquaintances living in the various parts of the world asking for help. He thought that professional and human respect he had enjoyed would suffice for him to survive. He was proved wrong. Kinszki died in Sachsenhausen in the early spring of 1945.

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