Paul Feiler (30 April 1918 – 8 July 2013) was a German-born artist who was a prominent member of the St Ives School of art: he has pictures hanging in major art galleries across the world.

Early life

Paul Feiler was born in 1918 in

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into a cultivated family of lawyers, doctors and liberal politicians; his father was a professor of dentistry. He was educated in

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in the

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and then at

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. His parents in 1936 moved to London: his father established himself as a dentist in

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. Paul studied at the

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in London 1936-1939 with artists such as Patrick Heron,

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. As an enemy alien in 1939, although thoroughly anglicised, he was interned on the

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and then in

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. On his return to England in 1941, he was an arts teacher at

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, which had been evacuated to

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. After

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, he taught art at the

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in Bristol: he became the head of painting there in 1960. In 1975 he moved to the disused chapel in

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near Newlyn in

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where he would live until his death.

Artistic career

Feiler’s first solo exhibition was a sell-out at the

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in London in 1953. He had four more exhibitions there in the 1950s. The Obelisk Gallery in

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in 1954 had the first of several solo exhibitions across America. Feiler has paintings in many art galleries worldwide including the

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in Washington DC,

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, and Kettles Yard in Cambridge. The Tate St Ives had two large solo exhibitions of his work in 1995 and 2005. He worked in his Kerris studio every day until his death in 2013 aged 95. Paul Feiler married the artist June Miles in 1945: they had two daughters and a son – the marriage was later dissolved. In 1970 Feiler married the artist Catharine Armitage: they had twin sons.

Solo exhibitions

1953-57

, London 1954, 1958 Obelisk Gallery, Washington DC 1959 Redfern Gallery, London 1961

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, Bristol 1962, 1965

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, London 1965

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1966

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JCR,

1966

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JCR,

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1969 Richard Demarco Gallery,

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1969 Sheviock Gallery,

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1972 Archer Gallery, London 1975

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1975 St Clements Hall, Mousehole,

1977 Wills Lane Gallery,

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1979

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, NC, USA 1979

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, NC, USA 1981-82 Crawford Centre for the Arts,

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and toured to: Alpirsbacher Galerie, Alpirsbach EKG Kunst,

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1981-82

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1981-82 Warwick Arts Trust, London: introduction by John Steer 1982 Fayetteville Museum of Art, North Carolina, USA: introduced by Phyllis A McLeod 1993 Redfern Gallery, London: introduction by John Steer 1994 Redfern Gallery, London 1995/96 Retrospective Exhibition, Tate Gallery, St Ives 1996 Redfern Gallery, London 1998 The Rotunda, Hong Kong 1999 Redfern Gallery, London 2002 "Connections", Redfern Gallery, London and Le Cadre,

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2002 Redfern Gallery, London 2003 “Works on Paper”, Redfern Gallery, London 2005 Janicon, Redfern Gallery, London 2005 “The Near and The Far”, Tate Gallery, St Ives 2005 Redfern Gallery, London 2005 Tate St. Ives 2007 Redfern Gallery, London 2010 Paul Feiler “Elusive Space”, Redfern Gallery, London 2011 Paul Feiler “A Retrospective”, Lemon Street Gallery, Truro, Cornwall 2013 Paul Feiler “Past and Present”, Redfern Gallery, London 2018 Paul Feiler “Elusive Space: a centenary retrospective”, Redfern Gallery, London

Group exhibitions
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, London

1949 Young Contemporaries,

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(Western Region exhibition at

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1950 Bristol City Art Gallery, (with Bryan Wynter, R W Treffgarne, Adrian Ryan, Patrick Heron) 1952

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(with Bryan Wynter, William Scott, Peter Lanyon, Patrick Heron) 1952 The Mirror and the Square, AIA New Burlington Galleries 1953 "The Unknown Political Prisoner", ICA West Country Landscapes ACGB (Western Region touring exhibition, also shown in Germany) 1953 Coronation Exhibition, The Redfern Gallery, London 1953 "Figures in their Setting", Tate Gallery 1953 British Contemporary Paintings, Arts Council Gallery, London 1954 Nine English Painters,

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1954 The Octagon, Bath with

Bryan Wynter Bryan Herbert Wynter (8 September 1915 – 2 February 1975)Peter Potworowski and Peter Lanyon 1954 "The Seasons", Tate Gallery 1956 Statements - a review of British Abstract art in 1956, ICA, London, curated by Lawrence Alloway 1956 Aspects of contemporary English painting, Parsons Gallery, London 1957 British Abstract Painting, Paris, Milan, Montreal, Melbourne, Sydney 1957 Metavisual,

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and abstract painting in England today, Redfern Gallery, London 1957 Dimensions: British abstract art 1948-1957, O'Hana Gallery, London, curated by

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1958 British Abstract Painting, Redfern Gallery, London exhibition toured to: Auckland, Liège, Johannesburg, Cape Town 1959 Architect's Choice ICA, London 1959 50 Years of British Painting, CAS exhibition organised by Denis Matthews and shown through the 'Friends of China' in Beijing and Shanghai 1960-61 Contemporary British Landscapes, ACGB touring exhibition 1961 John Moore's Gallery, Liverpool 1961 British Painting in the '60's, Tate Gallery 1961 Arnolfini, Bristol 1964 Peter Lanyon, Hilton, Feiler, Davie, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol 1966 British Painting 1950-57 ACGB touring exhibition 1972 Two (works each) by seven (artists), Archer Gallery, London 1977 "Cornwall 1945-55", New Art Centre, London 1980 Art in the making, Brewhouse Art Centre, Bristol 1985 St Ives 1939-64: Twenty-five years of painting, sculpture and pottery, Tate Gallery, London, curated by David Brown, introduction by David Lewis 1989 Post-war British abstract art, Austin/Desmond Fine Art, London (introduction by Margaret Garlake) 1999 "Orbis - Towards and Beyond" - A historical exhibition of works done before, during, and after the 1969

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Moon landing, Redfern Gallery, London 2000 ART 2000 - Redfern Gallery stand devoted entirely to his work.

References

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