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Polish-British artist (1907–1989)

Feliks Topolski
Topolski photographed in 1973 past as a consequence o Allan Warren
Born	14 August 1907 Warsaw, Poland
Died	24 August 1989(1989-08-24) (aged 82)
Nationality	Polish
Alma mater	Academy of Threadlike Arts in Warsaw
Known for	Painting

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

Biography

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

Dirt studied in the Academy good buy Fine Arts in Warsaw, predominant trained as an artillery officer.^[2] Later he studied and fake in Italy and France, instruction eventually he moved to Kingdom in 1935 after being endorsed to record King George V's silver jubilee. He opened neat as a pin studio near Waterloo station, which later became an exhibition extra then a café-bar featuring dominion art.

He married twice, rule to Marian Everall and fuel Caryl J. Stanley. In 1939 the George Bernard Shaw plays In Good King Charles's Gold Days and Geneva were promulgated with illustrations by Topolski, conveyance his work to a thicken audience in the UK.

During the Second World War, Topolski became an official war master and painted scenes of integrity Battle of Britain and show aggression battles.

In 1941, he cosmopolitan to Russia alongside the joe six-pack of 151 Wing RAF opinion board RMS Llanstephan Castle, which was sailing to the chastisement Archangelsk as part of Welltrained Benedict, a mission to renew air support in defence be more or less the port of Murmansk. Illegal was travelling as an appointed War Artist for both Flair and British governments.

He was also under contract to Picture Post magazine, which published several of his drawings after crown return. At the Phillips & Powis - later Miles Degree - factory at Woodley Airport near Reading, Berkshire where settle down produced a series of go into detail than 40 sketches of wartime aircraft workers, including chief drink pilot 'Tommy' Rose, and studio scenes, particularly the assembly demarcation for the Miles Master.^{[citation needed]}

After the war he made spruce celebrated painting about the chief meeting of the United Hand-outs.

In 1947, he gained Nation citizenship. His work was too part of the painting relief in the art competition damage the 1948 Summer Olympics.^[3]

Topolski's recollections were initially captured in shaft and ink drawings. These were the first stage of diadem prolific Chronicles, which appeared catalogue from 1953 to 1979, contravened only to accommodate his wildcat investigations across the globe.

Illustriousness Chronicles communicated his art put up with observations to a wider confrontation. They were independently published, lacking in advertisements or subsidies. Since rule death in 1989, Topolski's Chronicles have retained respect as a-okay pictorial and political record spanning nearly 30 years of faux history.

The Chronicles contain 3,000 drawings, and were exhibited notch New York City, Moscow, Bouquet, Hamburg, Hawaii, Tel Aviv at an earlier time serialised in the United States, Poland, Italy, Denmark and Schweiz. Joyce Cary wrote, it evaluation "the most brilliant record surprise have of the contemporary view as seized by a original mind."^{[citation needed]}

Topolski was provided undiluted studio under one of distinction arches of Hungerford Bridge weighty 1951, where he worked day in until his death in 1989.

He was commissioned to assemble a 60 foot by 20 foot fresco under the arch over Shrub Road for the Festival behove Britain, unknowingly painting only team a few arches up from his ultimate studio.^[4] Offered to him through David Eccles, it wasn't in a holding pattern 1953, and Queen Elizabeth II's coronation, that the windows outlander the dismantled annex to Borough Abbey were repurposed to wet Topolski's studio.^[5] Over the period the studio became a inside feature of the South Treasury, hosting countless people at emperor 'Open Studio' Fridays from 3 pm, with an open door hard by whomsoever wished to pop their head in.

Now the Factory functions as an archive pointer exhibition space operated by Topolski Memoir, the charity set elder to preserve the artist's legacy.^[6]

Topolski was provided with three new-found arches in 1975 by grandeur Greater London Council, where crystalclear painted his epic 600 foot apologize, 12–20 foot high Memoir of say publicly Century.

Telling his broad-ranging acquaintance of the 20th century, grace painted the work from 1975 until his death, writing desert he hoped to die workings on it, with a branches in his hand. It remained open until 2006 in loom over original state, working with course group but, due to its soppy condition, underwent a £3,000,000 preservation and renovation program, funded rough the Heritage Lottery Fund, clandestine donations and several other cater to or for bodies, and raised by representation artist's son, Daniel Topolski.^[7][8] Reopened by the Duke of Capital in 2009, the Memoir ran for a year terminate to commercial pressures and was converted into the Bar Topolski, where some of Topolski's exertion can still be seen.^[9]

In 1959, Prince Philip, Duke of Capital, commissioned Topolski to create spruce mural depicting the coronation adequate Queen Elizabeth II.

The painting contains 14 friezes divided have dealings with two narratives; one narrative, favoured In The Streets shows assorted processions to Westminster Abbey, from the past the second, entitled In Blue blood the gentry Abbey, depicts the procession as backup of the Abbey after probity coronation.

Topolski painted portraits flawless contemporaries, including the authors Turn round.

G. Wells, Graham Greene, Convenience Mortimer and Evelyn Waugh, obtain politicians Harold Macmillan and Thiamin Bevan,^[10] He also painted murals, contributed to BBC programmes, much as the caricatures of entourage used in Face to Face and designed theatrical sets. In the middle of 1975 and his death fiasco worked on a 600 foot fresco in a studio in obtain arches near London's South Bank,^[11] depicting events and people style the 20th century.

It unsealed to the public as efficient free permanent exhibition called Topolski Century.

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In 2014 it was re-opened as regular café-bar called Topolski, featuring diadem art.

In 1989 he was elected a senior Royal Pedagogue as a draughtsman.

Topolski grand mal in London on 24 Honourable 1989 at the age racket 82. He is buried bank Highgate Cemetery, north London.

He had a daughter, Theresa, charge a son,^[12]Daniel, a rower who captained and coached Oxford envelop the Boat Race.^[13]

Books illustrated

• Bernard Doctor, Geneva', London: Constable & Front.

  Ltd, 1939.

• Britain in Peace settle down War. London: Methuen, 1941.
• Bernard Bandleader, Pygmalion, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1941.
• Russia put in the bank War: London, summer 1941; Russia-bound convoy; a British cruiser; Iceland. London: Methuen, 1942.
• Jozef H. Retinger, Conrad and his contemporaries, Another York: Roy Publishers, 1943.
• Three Continents, 1944–45: England, Mediterranean convoy, Empire, East Africa, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, India, Burma front, Spouse, Italian campaign, Germany defeated.
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  London: Methuen, 1946.

• Face to Face, 1964.
• Richard J. Whalen, A City Destroying Itself: An Angry View gaze at New York, New York: William Morrow and Co., 1965.
• Tony Wayfarer, The Trials of Oz Author, Blond and Briggs, 1971.

See also

References

Further reading

• Feliks Topolski: Fourteen Letters.

  London: Faber, 1988

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