Bryan Wynter

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Bryan Wynter (born September 8, 1915 in London , † February 2, 1975 in Penzance , Cornwall , England ) was an English painter .

Bryan Wynter was originally supposed to go to Zurich to continue his family's business there, instead he rebelled and went to London in 1938 and studied art at the Slade School of Fine Art . He moved to St Ives in Cornwall in 1945 and joined the British painting group St Ives Group , which included Peter Lanyon , Terry Frost , Patrick Heron , William Scott and Roger Hilton .

In the 1950s, Wynter experimented with drugs, especially mescaline . The intoxication experiences influenced his work, the painting became much more abstract . The main source of his inspiration, however, remained the Cornish countryside.

In 1959 Bryan Wynter took part in documenta II in Kassel .

In 1962, Winter had a heart attack. He experimented with kinetic art for some time . Some notable objects of this time are his kinetic sculptures, which he called "IMOOS" ( Images Moving Out Onto Space ), consisting of parabolic mirrors and freely rotating, painted structures. In the last ten years of his life he found his way back to painting.

Literature and Sources

  • Gooding, Mel / Clark, Jonathan: Bryan Wynter 1915-1975 (exhibition catalog Fine Art), London, 2002
  • Stephens, Chris: Bryan Wynter (St. Ives Artists series ), Tate Gallery, London 1999 ISBN 1-85437-293-9

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personal data
SURNAME Wynter, Bryan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH 2nd February 1975
Place of death Penzance , Cornwall , England