Roger Hilton
Roger Hilton (born April 30, 1911 in Northwood / Middlesex , London , England ; † February 23, 1975 in Saint Just , Cornwall , England) was a British painter of German origin. He was an important exponent of British abstract art in the 20th century. He is considered to be the pioneer of abstract painting in England before the Second World War .
Life
Roger Hilton studied at the Slade School of Art in London , later at the École Bissiere in Paris in the 1930s. He began as a figurative painter before he began to paint abstractly in the 1950s - also under the influence of Piet Mondrian . In 1953 he stayed in the Netherlands . From 1956 his work was in close contact with the British painting group St Ives Group in Cornwall , which included Peter Lanyon , Terry Frost , Patrick Heron , William Scott and Bryan Wynter , among others . In 1959, Hilton was a participant in documenta 2 in Kassel .
Roger Hilton spent the last year of his life bedridden and marked by alcoholism .
literature
- Exhibition catalog for documenta II (1959) in Kassel: II.documenta'59. Art after 1945 . Catalog: Volume 1: Painting; Volume 2: Sculpture; Volume 3: Graphic Art; Text tape. Kassel / Cologne 1959
Web links
- Examples of his work in the Tate Gallery
- Materials by and about Roger Hilton in the documenta archive
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Hilton, Roger |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 30, 1911 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Northwood , Middlesex, London, England |
| DATE OF DEATH | 23rd February 1975 |
| Place of death | Saint Just , Cornwall , England |