Richard Lin
Richard Lin as Lin Show Yu ( Chinese 林壽宇 ; born January 31, 1933 in Taichung , Taiwan ; † 2011 ) was a British painter and sculptor of Chinese descent who was known for his abstract reliefs .
life and work
Richard Lin grew up in Taiwan, then under Japanese rule , and attended Japanese schools from 1939 to 1944. From 1944 to 1949 he attended high schools in China. In 1949 he moved to Hong Kong where he studied English . In 1952 he moved to England , where he studied art , art history and architecture at Regent Street Polytechnic in London from 1954 to 1958 , first in Millfield , Sommerset . In 1959 he had his first solo exhibition at Gimpel Fils in London, where he exhibited again in 1961 and 1964.
Richard Lin worked as an abstract painter with relief-like pictures, which he created from metal (mostly aluminum ) on canvas , often in combination with other materials in the sense of geometric abstraction and minimal art .
He became a British citizen in 1963. In 1964, his works were shown at documenta III in Kassel in the painting / relief department . In 1965 he got a teaching position at the Ravensborne College of Art and Design . In the same year he got the order for an aluminum relief for the Campden Hill Towers in London. Also in 1965, he has two works for the II passenger ship Queen Elizabeth of the Cunard Line made.
Lin had solo exhibitions at Marlborough Fine Arts in 1966, 1970, 1974 and 1975. He won first prize in an open painting exhibition from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland in 1966 and the William Frew Memorial Prize in 1967 in Pittsburgh .
In 1969 he moved to Aberystwyth. From 1981 to 1988 he lived for seven years in Taiwan, where he in 1985 the grand prize for sculpture of the Museum of Fine Arts in Taipei won.
Literature and Sources
- documenta III. International exhibition ; Catalog: Volume 1: Painting and Sculpture; Volume 2: Hand Drawings; Volume 3: Industrial Design, Graphics; Kassel / Cologne 1964
Web links
- Examples of his work
- Examples of his work
- Materials by and about Richard Lin in the documenta archive
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lin, Richard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lin Show Yu, 林壽宇 |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British painter and sculptor of Chinese descent |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 31, 1933 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Taichung , Taiwan |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2011 |