Victor Pasmore

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Victor Pasmore (born December 3, 1908 in Chelsham ( Surrey ), England , † January 23, 1998 in Valletta , Malta ), was a British painter and relief artist .

life and work

Pasmore is one of the leading exponents of abstract art and was one of the most influential artists of British abstract painting after the Second World War . He is considered to be the most influential exponent of the new constructivist art of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s in Great Britain.

Victor Pasmore moved to London in 1927 . He received his artistic training in evening classes from 1927 to 1930 at London's Central School of Arts and Crafts . For the exhibition Objective Abstraction (1934) he contributed pictures that were Fauvist and Cubist . Together with Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson , he was one of the artists in the first exhibition of abstract art in London after the war (1950/51). From 1954 to 1961 he was professor ("Master of Painting") in the Department of Fine Arts at Durham University . In the 1950s Pasmore lived in Newcastle upon Tyne , in the early 1960s in London ( Blackheath ), in 1966 he moved to Malta , where he lived and worked until his death.

He had his first solo exhibition in 1933 at the Cooling Gallery in London. In the 1950s and 1960s his art received international recognition. Among other things, he was a participant in documenta 2 in 1959 and also in documenta 3 in Kassel in 1964 , the XXX. Venice Biennale 1961 and the VII  São Paulo Biennale 1965.

His painting "Inner Coastal Landscape" from 1950 hangs in the Tate Gallery .

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
  • Exhibition catalog for documenta III (1964) in Kassel: documenta III. International exhibition . Catalog: Volume 1: Painting and Sculpture; Volume 2: Hand Drawings; Industrial design, graphics. Kassel / Cologne 1964
  • Liselotte Ronte: Victor Pasmore . Municipal Art Gallery Bochum, 1961

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personal data
SURNAME Pasmore, Victor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British painter and relief artist
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Chelsham (Surrey), England
DATE OF DEATH January 23, 1998
Place of death Valletta , Malta