- Also known as
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Eduardo Paolozzi
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primary name: Paolozzi, Eduardo
- Details
- individual; sculptor/medallist; painter/draughtsman; printmaker; British; Male
- Life dates
- 1924-2005
- Biography
- British sculptor, draughtsman and printmaker; born of Italian parents in Leith, Edinburgh, in 1924; attended evening classes at Edinburgh College of Art 1943 with the intention of becoming a commercial artist and then studied at St Martin's School of Art 1944 and at the Slade School of Fine Art 1945-47; in 1947 he went to Paris, living there for two years, enrolling briefly at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and meeting artists such as Arp, Brancusi, Giacometti and Léger; on his return to London he taught in several art schools, whilst developing his sculpture and printmaking; appointed Professor of Sculpture at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich 1981; also Professor of Ceramics at the Royal College of Art and Visiting Professor at Edinburgh School of Art; first solo exhibition at the Mayor Gallery, London, 1947; represented Britain at the XXX Venice Biennale in 1960, winning the David E Bright award for the best artist under thirty; the Yorkshire Sculpture Park held a 70th Birthday Exhibition of sculpture and graphics1994, and an exhibition of his graphics, first shown at the Edinburgh Festival in 1996, was toured internationally by the British Council; Royal Academician; donated large archive to Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh.
In 1985 he curated the exhibition ' Lost Magic Kingdoms and Six Paper Moons' for the British Museum's Department of Ethnography at the Museum of Mankind, objects from the collections were shown alongside examples of his own work.
- Bibliography
- Rosemary Miles, 'The Complete Prints of Eduardo Paolozzi. Prints, drawings, collages, 1944-1977', 1977
Judith Collins, EP, Farnham 2014
