Anthony Hill

This article is about the British painter Anthony Hill, the squash player see Anthony Hill (squash player) .

Anthony Hill (born April 23, 1930 in London , Great Britain ; lives and works there) is a British painter , printmaker and relief artist . He is considered an important representative of constructivist art and geometric abstraction in Great Britain.

life and work

Anthony Hill studied at St Martin's School of Art from 1947 to 1951 . He began painting in the style of Dada and Surrealism . In 1948 he began to paint geometrically abstract . He created his first relief in 1954.

He worked closely with the representatives of constructivism in England in the 1950s, such as Victor Pasmore , Adrian Heath , John Ernest , Kenneth Martin , Mary Martin , Stephen Gilbert and Gillian Wise , and became an important member of the British constructivist art movement himself. From 1953 to 1963 he was a teacher at the Regent Street Polytechnic School of Art and from 1964 at the Chelsea School of Art .

Anthony Hill created numerous reliefs. A feature of these reliefs was the use of non-traditional, industrial materials such as aluminum and plexiglass . He participated in exhibitions of abstract and constructivist art in Great Britain , Paris , Germany , Holland , Poland , Switzerland and the USA . Some of his works are part of the collection of the Tate Gallery in London. He had his first solo exhibition in 1958 at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London. He was a participant in the 2nd Paris Biennale in 1961, the 4th San Marino Biennale in 1963 and in 1968 with four colored metal-plastic reliefs in the 4th documenta in Kassel . In 1983 the Hayward Gallery hosted a major retrospective of Anthony Hill's constructivist work.

Anthony Hill had a lifelong fascination with mathematics , and there were many mathematicians in his circle. Together with his colleague John Ernest, he made contributions to graph theory and became a member of the London Mathematical Society in 1979 in recognition of a number of important mathematical writings . Almost all of his reliefs were based on mathematical structure and logic.

literature

• Exhibition catalog for the IV. Documenta: IV. Documenta. International exhibition. Catalog. Volume 1: Painting and Sculpture. Volume 2: Graphics / Objects. Kassel 1968.
• Harald Kimpel, Karin Stengel: documenta IV 1968 International Exhibition - A photographic reconstruction. (Series of publications from the documenta archive.) Bremen 2007, ISBN 978-3-86108-524-9 .

Web links

• Works by Anthony Hill at the Tate Gallery
• Materials by and about Anthony Hill in the documenta archive