1. Lionel George Henricus Wendt was a pianist, photographer, filmmaker and critic from Sri Lanka.
14 Facts About Lionel Wendt
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Lionel Wendt was the leader of '43 Group, a collective of Sri Lankan artists.
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The Lionel Wendt Art Centre is a major art centre and theatre in Colombo, Sri Lanka, dedicated to his memory.
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Lionel Wendt was educated at S Thomas' College before traveling to London in 1919 to study law at the Inner Temple.
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Lionel Wendt soon gave public piano recitals, both as a soloist and as an accompanist.
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Lionel Wendt gave up the law for music in 1928 and developed an interest in avant-garde music.
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Lionel Wendt became the figurehead of the only circle of avant-garde artists of the time, which included his childhood friend, the painter George Keyt.
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Durrant, Lionel Wendt revived the Amateur Photographic Society of Ceylon, founded by his father and which was then renamed the Photographic Society of Ceylon.
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Lionel Wendt took part in many exhibitions in Ceylon between 1935 and 1944.
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Lionel Wendt's photographs bear witness to the culture of his country.
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Lionel Wendt was the first Ceylonese to establish a relationship between photography and film when the latter developed on the island during the 1930s.
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Lionel Wendt is the extremely dedicated patron of a group of painters.
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Lionel Wendt buys some of their works, organizes exhibitions, and publicly defends these painters in the newspapers.
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Lionel Wendt died of a heart attack in Colombo on 19 December 1944.