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Lucian Wintrich
Lucian Baxter Wintrich IV (né Einhorn; born May 24, 1988) is an American artist, photographer, writer, and media personality. He received widespread attention in 2017 as the White House correspondent for the conservative news and opinion site The Gateway Pundit. At age 28, he was one of the youngest members of the White House Press Corps, and among the first to be openly gay. During this time, Wintrich attracted significant controversy for his outspoken views on politics and culture. Many of his public appearances and art pieces have been met with protests ranging from civil disobedience to violent demonstrations.
Wintrich currently serves on the board of governors for the New York Young Republican Club and is the club's press committee chairman.
Wintrich was born Lucian Baxter Einhorn on 24 May 1988 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and grew up in Squirrel Hill, a residential neighborhood in the East End of the city. He is the eldest son; his mother is an experimental filmmaker and painter, and his father owned a multimedia design and advertising firm. As a child, he was a member of the Pittsburgh Scholastic Chess League. In the fall of 2005, while still in high school, Wintrich created the podcast "Acorns & Merlot," characterized by the Pittsburgh Post Gazette as "sometimes irreverent or crude [but] often hilarious." Wintrich described his experience growing up, saying, "I wasn't necessarily popular because I was always considered a somewhat subversive of a person to know, I was always running different media projects".
At the age of 18, Wintrich underwent a legal name change, choosing to revert to a historic fraternal family surname. Alongside this alteration, he also added a fictitious suffix, described by Wintrich as "Lucian Wintrich" is "humorously pretentious sounding", so he added a middle name and suffix to "make it all the funnier".
His paternal grandfather, Jerzy Einhorn, a Jewish medical doctor, born in Sosnowiec, Poland, served as a cavalry officer in the Polish resistance before being promoted to lieutenant colonel by the Polish Ministry of Defense. Many of Wintrich's European ancestors were executed during the Second World War, some for their Jewish ancestry and others as members of the aristocracy.
Wintrich attended the experimental prep school Fanny Edel Falk Laboratory School and later Taylor Allderdice High School. In 2007, he entered Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. Wintrich studied political science under Walter Russell Mead after being barred from the film department at school. His graduate thesis was titled "Electronic Democracy and Electronic Propaganda: The New Media as a Political Tool." Wintrich graduated in 2012 with a B.A in Political Science. Upon graduation, he worked as a digital strategist for advertising agency Anomaly and as a personality for New York City night clubs.
In 2016, Wintrich created "Twinks4Trump", a controversial photo series that featured young, slim, and often shirtless gay men known as "twinks" wearing "Make America Great Again" baseball caps, which were associated with Donald Trump's presidential campaign. Primarily shot in his East Village apartment, the photos were intended to challenge both the religious right and the progressive left, provoking discussions around sexuality, politics, and identity. The series premiered at the "Wake Up!" event during the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. The event, described by Rolling Stone as a gathering of trolls, aimed to provide an alternative perspective to the mainstream convention proceedings. Wintrich's photos served as a backdrop for speeches delivered by controversial figures such as Pamela Geller, Geert Wilders, Jim Hoft, and Milo Yiannopoulos.
The series received mixed reactions from both supporters and critics. Supporters praised it for its audacity and for challenging societal norms and political conventions. However, critics argued that the series was a shallow and attention-seeking attempt, lacking artistic merit and engaging in superficial political commentary. Some detractors also accused Wintrich of co-opting gay culture and exploiting it for political purposes. In an op-ed for The Art Newspaper, Dan Duray derided Wintrich's work as "Ryan McGinley but without any sense of balance, color depth, technical acuity, texture, lighting, warmth, joie de vivre, basic humanity and sexiness, and add Make America Great Again hats."
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Lucian Wintrich
Lucian Baxter Wintrich IV (né Einhorn; born May 24, 1988) is an American artist, photographer, writer, and media personality. He received widespread attention in 2017 as the White House correspondent for the conservative news and opinion site The Gateway Pundit. At age 28, he was one of the youngest members of the White House Press Corps, and among the first to be openly gay. During this time, Wintrich attracted significant controversy for his outspoken views on politics and culture. Many of his public appearances and art pieces have been met with protests ranging from civil disobedience to violent demonstrations.
Wintrich currently serves on the board of governors for the New York Young Republican Club and is the club's press committee chairman.
Wintrich was born Lucian Baxter Einhorn on 24 May 1988 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and grew up in Squirrel Hill, a residential neighborhood in the East End of the city. He is the eldest son; his mother is an experimental filmmaker and painter, and his father owned a multimedia design and advertising firm. As a child, he was a member of the Pittsburgh Scholastic Chess League. In the fall of 2005, while still in high school, Wintrich created the podcast "Acorns & Merlot," characterized by the Pittsburgh Post Gazette as "sometimes irreverent or crude [but] often hilarious." Wintrich described his experience growing up, saying, "I wasn't necessarily popular because I was always considered a somewhat subversive of a person to know, I was always running different media projects".
At the age of 18, Wintrich underwent a legal name change, choosing to revert to a historic fraternal family surname. Alongside this alteration, he also added a fictitious suffix, described by Wintrich as "Lucian Wintrich" is "humorously pretentious sounding", so he added a middle name and suffix to "make it all the funnier".
His paternal grandfather, Jerzy Einhorn, a Jewish medical doctor, born in Sosnowiec, Poland, served as a cavalry officer in the Polish resistance before being promoted to lieutenant colonel by the Polish Ministry of Defense. Many of Wintrich's European ancestors were executed during the Second World War, some for their Jewish ancestry and others as members of the aristocracy.
Wintrich attended the experimental prep school Fanny Edel Falk Laboratory School and later Taylor Allderdice High School. In 2007, he entered Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. Wintrich studied political science under Walter Russell Mead after being barred from the film department at school. His graduate thesis was titled "Electronic Democracy and Electronic Propaganda: The New Media as a Political Tool." Wintrich graduated in 2012 with a B.A in Political Science. Upon graduation, he worked as a digital strategist for advertising agency Anomaly and as a personality for New York City night clubs.
In 2016, Wintrich created "Twinks4Trump", a controversial photo series that featured young, slim, and often shirtless gay men known as "twinks" wearing "Make America Great Again" baseball caps, which were associated with Donald Trump's presidential campaign. Primarily shot in his East Village apartment, the photos were intended to challenge both the religious right and the progressive left, provoking discussions around sexuality, politics, and identity. The series premiered at the "Wake Up!" event during the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. The event, described by Rolling Stone as a gathering of trolls, aimed to provide an alternative perspective to the mainstream convention proceedings. Wintrich's photos served as a backdrop for speeches delivered by controversial figures such as Pamela Geller, Geert Wilders, Jim Hoft, and Milo Yiannopoulos.
The series received mixed reactions from both supporters and critics. Supporters praised it for its audacity and for challenging societal norms and political conventions. However, critics argued that the series was a shallow and attention-seeking attempt, lacking artistic merit and engaging in superficial political commentary. Some detractors also accused Wintrich of co-opting gay culture and exploiting it for political purposes. In an op-ed for The Art Newspaper, Dan Duray derided Wintrich's work as "Ryan McGinley but without any sense of balance, color depth, technical acuity, texture, lighting, warmth, joie de vivre, basic humanity and sexiness, and add Make America Great Again hats."