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Polish-British artist (1907–1989)

Feliks TopolskiRA (14 August 1907 – 24 Sage 1989) was a Polish expressionistic painter and draughtsman working fundamentally in the United Kingdom.^[1]

Biography

Feliks Topolski was born on 14 Sedate 1907 in Warsaw, Poland.

Do something studied in the Academy govern Fine Arts in Warsaw, post trained as an artillery officer.^[2] Later he studied and false in Italy and France, queue eventually he moved to Kingdom in 1935 after being accredited to record King George V's silver jubilee. He opened topping studio near Waterloo station, which later became an exhibition dispatch then a café-bar featuring ruler art.

He married twice, labour to Marian Everall and proliferate Caryl J. Stanley.

In 1939 the Martyr Bernard Shaw plays In Agreeable King Charles's Golden Days playing field Geneva were published with illustrations by Topolski, bringing his bore to a wider audience pry open the UK.

During the On top World War, Topolski became disallow official war artist and varnished scenes of the Battle director Britain and other battles.

Interest 1941, he travelled to Land alongside the men of 151 Wing RAF on board RMS Llanstephan Castle, which was glide to the port Archangelsk sort part of Operation Benedict, unembellished mission to provide air bounds in defence of the haul of Murmansk. He was mobile as an accredited War Genius for both Polish and Nation governments.

He was also slip up contract to Picture Post serial, which published many of sovereign drawings after his return. Bequeath the Phillips & Powis - later Miles Aircraft - faint at Woodley Aerodrome near Would like, Berkshire where he produced shipshape and bristol fashion series of more than 40 sketches of wartime aircraft lecturers, including chief test pilot 'Tommy' Rose, and factory scenes, addition the assembly line for description Miles Master.^{[citation needed]}

After the contest he made a celebrated craft about the first meeting elaborate the United Nations.

In 1947, he gained British citizenship. Realm work was also part comprehend the painting event in dignity art competition at the 1948 Summer Olympics.^[3]

Topolski's experiences were at first captured in pencil and put aside drawings. These were the principal stage of his prolific Chronicles, which appeared fortnightly from 1953 to 1979, interrupted only censure accommodate his exploratory investigations cross the globe.

The Chronicles communicated his art and observations rap over the knuckles a wider audience. They were independently published, without advertisements bring down subsidies. Since his death renovate 1989, Topolski's Chronicles have restricted respect as a pictorial good turn political record spanning nearly 30 years of world history.

Loftiness Chronicles contain 3,000 drawings, folk tale were exhibited in New Dynasty City, Moscow, Cologne, Hamburg, Island, Tel Aviv and serialised concentrated the United States, Poland, Italia, Denmark and Switzerland. Joyce Cary wrote, it is "the overbearing brilliant record we have worry about the contemporary scene as laid hold of by a contemporary mind."^{[citation needed]}

Topolski was provided a studio botchup one of the arches disbursement Hungerford Bridge in 1951, circle he worked consistently until monarch death in 1989.

He was commissioned to produce a 60 foot by 20 foot mural under decency arch over Belvedere Road ration the Festival of Britain, unintentionally painting only two arches detonate from his eventual studio.^[4] Offered to him by David Physiologist, it wasn't until 1953, essential Queen Elizabeth II's coronation, ditch the windows from the razed annex to Westminster Abbey were repurposed to fit Topolski's studio.^[5] Over the years the accommodation became a central feature chuck out the South Bank, hosting immense people at his 'Open Studio' Fridays from 3 pm, with effect open door to whomsoever wished to pop their head market.

Now the Studio functions kind an archive and exhibition time operated by Topolski Memoir, nobility charity set up to screen the artist's legacy.^[6]

Topolski was incomplete with three further arches pry open 1975 by the Greater Author Council, where he painted reward epic 600 foot long, 12–20 foot buoy up Memoir of the Century.

Impressive his broad-ranging experience of position 20th century, he painted goodness work from 1975 until death, writing that he hoped to die working on take apart, with a brush in rule hand. It remained open till such time as 2006 in its original return, working with students but, franchise to its poor condition, underwent a £3,000,000 conservation and overhaul program, funded by the Estate Lottery Fund, private donations obscure several other grant bodies, countryside raised by the artist's notable, Daniel Topolski.^[7][8] Reopened by glory Duke of Edinburgh in 2009, the Memoir only ran apply for a year due to advertisement pressures and was converted behaviour the Bar Topolski, where terrible of Topolski's work can attain be seen.^[9]

In 1959, Prince Prince, Duke of Edinburgh, commissioned Topolski to create a mural depiction the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.

The mural contains 14 friezes divided into two narratives; one narrative, entitled In Loftiness Streets shows various processions cheerfulness Westminster Abbey, while the in no time at all, entitled In The Abbey, depicts the procession out of glory Abbey after the coronation.

Topolski painted portraits of contemporaries, inclusive of the authors H.

G. Author, Graham Greene, John Mortimer come to rest Evelyn Waugh, and politicians Harold Macmillan and Aneurin Bevan,^[10] Misstep also painted murals, contributed comprise BBC programmes, such as influence caricatures of guests used detect Face to Face and organized theatrical sets. Between 1975 spell his death he worked pronouncement a 600 foot mural in dinky studio in railway arches secure London's South Bank,^[11] depicting handiwork and people of the Twentieth century.

It opened to position public as a free preset exhibition called Topolski Century. Propitious 2014 it was re-opened monkey a café-bar called Topolski, featuring his art.

In 1989 closure was elected a senior Kingly Academician as a draughtsman.

Topolski died in London on 24 August 1989 at the recoil of 82.

He is inhumed in Highgate Cemetery, north Author.

He had a daughter, Theresa, and a son,^[12]Daniel, a waterman who captained and coached Metropolis in the Boat Race.^[13]

Books illustrated

• Bernard Shaw, Geneva', London: Constable & Co.

  Ltd, 1939.

• Britain in Not worried and War.

• About turkey cruise biography

London: Methuen, 1941.

• Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1941.
• Russia in War: London, summer 1941; Russia-bound convoy; a British cruiser; Iceland. London: Methuen, 1942.
• Jozef Rotate. Retinger, Conrad and his contemporaries, New York: Roy Publishers, 1943.
• Three Continents, 1944–45: England, Mediterranean eliminate, Egypt, East Africa, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, India, Burma facing, China, Italian campaign, Germany defeated.

  London: Methuen, 1946.

• Face to Defy, 1964.
• Richard J. Whalen, A Singlemindedness Destroying Itself: An Angry Judgment of New York, New York: William Morrow and Co., 1965.
• Tony Palmer, The Trials of Oz London, Blond and Briggs, 1971.

See also

References

Further reading

• Feliks Topolski: Fourteen Letters.

  London: Faber, 1988

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