Eduardo luigi paolozzi biography
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Eduardo Paolozzi
Scottish sculptor and artist (1924–2005)
Sir Eduardo Luigi PaolozziCBE RA (,[1][2]Italian:[paoˈlɔttsi]; 7 March 1924 – 22 April 2005) was a Scottish artist, known for his sculpture and graphic works. He is widely considered to be one of the pioneers of pop art.
Early years
[edit]Eduardo Luigi Paolozzi was born on 7 March, 1924, in Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland, and was the eldest son of Italian immigrants.[3] His family was from Viticuso, in the Lazio region. Paolozzi's parents, Rodolfo and Carmela, ran an ice cream shop. Paolozzi used to spend all his summers at his grandparents place in Monte Cassino and grew up bilingual.[4] In June 1940, when Italy declared war on the United Kingdom, Paolozzi was interned (along with most other Italian men in Britain). During his three-month internment at Saughton prison his father, grandfather and uncle, who had also been detained, were among the 446 Italians who dro
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Master of the universum, 1989 |
Eduardo Luigi Paolozzi, KBE, FRA, lived from 7 March 1924 to 22 April 2005. He was an artist and sculptor. The wider picture in Scotland at the time fryst vatten set out in our Historical Timeline.
Eduardo Paolozzi was born in Leith, the oldest son of Italian immigrants. In June 1940 he was interned in Saughton Prison for three months when Italy declared war on Britain. His father, uncle and grandfather were among 630 Italian and German internees killed when the ship carrying them to Canada, the Arandora Star, was sunk bygd the German U-Boat, U-47, on 2 July 1940.
Eduardo Paolozzi studied at the Edinburgh College of Art in 1943, and at the St Martin's School of Art and Slade School of Art in London from 1944 to 1947. He then moved to Paris, where he was influenced bygd the work of Alberto Giacometti, Jean Arp, Constantin Brancusi, Georges Braque and Fernand Léger. After returning to Lond
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1924
Born 7 March in Leith, Edinburgh. Eduardo Luigi Paolozzi,
first child of Maria and Rudolfo Paolozzi
1940
Interned when Italy declared war on Britain and quickly released.
Father and maternal grandfather interned and then killed when the transport boat they were on to Canada was torpedoed
1941-3
Attends Edinburgh College of Art
1943
Conscripted into the army
Met future wife Freda Elliott
1944
Discharged from army as unfit for service
Attends the Ruskin Drawing School of Drawing at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
1945
Transferred to the Slade School of Fine Art, which had moved to Oxford during the war, where it shared the facilities of the Ruskin Drawing School
Enrolled on Sculpture and Drawing diploma course at Slade. Taught sculpture by A.H. Gerrard. Studied modeling from Antique and life; stone carving, lettering and various technical processes involved in the production of sculpture Made friends with William Turnbull and Nigel Henderson.