Thomas Lowinsky was born in India on 2 March 1892 of Hungarian descent. He immigrated to England around 1904 to study at Eton College and Trinity College, University of Oxford, before training at the Slade School of Fine Art in London (1912–14). An illustrator and painter of portraits, landscapes, and surrealist imagery, often inspired by the Bible or classical mythology, Lowinsky held his first solo exhibition at the Leicester Galleries in 1926 and exhibited frequently in the UK. He was also a notable collector of British drawings and a founder member of the Double Crown Club, a London-based society of printers, publishers, book designers and illustrators.

Listen to his story here or read the full biography on the BURU database: https://www.buru.org.uk/contributor/thomas-lowinsky