Paul Feiler
Introduction '''Paul Feiler''' (30 April 1918 – 8 July 2013) was a German-born artist who was a prominent member of the St Ives School of art: he has pictures hanging in major art galleries across the world.
Early life Paul Feiler was born in 1918 in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany into a cultivated family of lawyers, doctors and liberal politicians; his father was a professor of dentistry. He was educated in Zwolle in the Netherlands and then at Canford School in Dorset, England.His parents in 1936 moved to London: his father established himself as a dentist in Harley Street. Paul studied at the Slade School of Fine Art in London 1936-1939 with artists such as Patrick Heron, Bryan Wynter and Kenneth Armitage. As an enemy alien in 1939, although thoroughly anglicised, he was interned on the Isle of Man and then in Canada. On his return to England in 1941, he was an arts teacher at Eastbourne College, which had been evacuated to Radley College in Oxford.After World War II, he taught art at the West of England College of Art in Bristol: he became the head of painting there in 1960.In 1975 he moved to the disused chapel in Kerris near Newlyn in Cornwall where he would live until his death.
Artistic career Feiler’s first solo exhibition was a sell-out at the Redfern Gallery in London in 1953.He had four more exhibitions there in the 1950s. The Obelisk Gallery in Washington DC in 1954 had the first of several solo exhibitions across America.Feiler has paintings in many art galleries worldwide including the Tate St Ives, Victoria and Albert Museum, National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris, Bristol Art Gallery, Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, and Kettles Yard in Cambridge.The Tate St Ives had two large solo exhibitions of his work in 1995 and 2005.He worked in his Kerris studio every day until his death in 2013 aged 95.Paul Feiler married the artist June Miles in 1945: they had two daughters and a son – the marriage was later dissolved. In 1970 Feiler married the artist Catharine Armitage: they had twin sons.
Solo exhibitions<ref>[[Redfern Gallery]], London</ref> 1953-57 Redfern Gallery, London1954, 1958 Obelisk Gallery, Washington DC1959 Redfern Gallery, London1961 Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol1962, 1965 Grosvenor Gallery, London1965 Victoria Art Gallery, Bath1966 Balliol College JCR, Oxford1966 Clare College JCR, Cambridge1969 Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh1969 Sheviock Gallery, Plymouth1972 Archer Gallery, London1975 Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg1975 St Clements Hall, Mousehole, Cornwall1977 Wills Lane Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall1979 Meredith College, NC, USA1979 Duke University, NC, USA1981-82 Crawford Centre for the Arts, University of St Andrews and toured to: Alpirsbacher Galerie, Alpirsbach EKG Kunst, Stuttgart1981-82 John Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton1981-82 Warwick Arts Trust, London: introduction by John Steer1982 Fayetteville Museum of Art, North Carolina, USA: introduced by Phyllis A McLeod1993 Redfern Gallery, London: introduction by John Steer1994 Redfern Gallery, London1995/96 Retrospective Exhibition, Tate Gallery, St Ives1996 Redfern Gallery, London1998 The Rotunda, Hong Kong1999 Redfern Gallery, London2002 "Connections", Redfern Gallery, London and Le Cadre, Hong Kong2002 Redfern Gallery, London2003 “Works on Paper”, Redfern Gallery, London2005 Janicon, Redfern Gallery, London2005 “The Near and The Far”, Tate Gallery, St Ives2005 Redfern Gallery, London2005 Tate St. Ives2007 Redfern Gallery, London2010 Paul Feiler  “Elusive Space”, Redfern Gallery, London2011 Paul Feiler  “A Retrospective”, Lemon Street Gallery, Truro, Cornwall2013 Paul Feiler “Past and Present”, Redfern Gallery, London2018 Paul Feiler “Elusive Space: a centenary retrospective”, Redfern Gallery, London
Group exhibitions<ref>[[Redfern Gallery]], London</ref> 1949 Young Contemporaries, Arts Council of Great Britain (Western Region exhibition at Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery1950 Bristol City Art Gallery, (with Bryan Wynter, R W Treffgarne, Adrian Ryan, Patrick Heron)1952 Bryanston School, Dorset (with Bryan Wynter, William Scott, Peter Lanyon, Patrick Heron)1952 The Mirror and the Square, AIA New Burlington Galleries1953 "The Unknown Political Prisoner", ICA West Country Landscapes ACGB (Western Region touring exhibition, also shown in Germany)1953 Coronation Exhibition, The Redfern Gallery, London1953 "Figures in their Setting", Tate Gallery1953 British Contemporary Paintings, Arts Council Gallery, London1954 Nine English Painters, Dublin1954 The Octagon, Bath with Bryan Wynter, Peter Potworowski and Peter Lanyon1954 "The Seasons", Tate Gallery1956 Statements - a review of British Abstract art in 1956, ICA, London, curated by Lawrence Alloway1956 Aspects of contemporary English painting, Parsons Gallery, London1957 British Abstract Painting, Paris, Milan, Montreal, Melbourne, Sydney1957 Metavisual, tachiste and abstract painting in England today, Redfern Gallery, London1957 Dimensions: British abstract art 1948-1957, O'Hana Gallery, London, curated by Lawrence Alloway1958 British Abstract Painting, Redfern Gallery, London exhibition toured to: Auckland, Liège, Johannesburg, Cape Town1959 Architect's Choice ICA, London1959 50 Years of British Painting, CAS exhibition organised by Denis Matthews and shown through the 'Friends of China' in Beijing and Shanghai1960-61 Contemporary British Landscapes, ACGB touring exhibition1961 John Moore's Gallery, Liverpool1961 British Painting in the '60's, Tate Gallery1961 Arnolfini, Bristol1964 Peter Lanyon, Hilton, Feiler, Davie, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol1966 British Painting 1950-57 ACGB touring exhibition1972 Two (works each) by seven (artists), Archer Gallery, London1977 "Cornwall 1945-55", New Art Centre, London1980 Art in the making, Brewhouse Art Centre, Bristol1985 St Ives 1939-64: Twenty-five years of painting, sculpture and pottery, Tate Gallery, London, curated by David Brown, introduction by David Lewis1989 Post-war British abstract art, Austin/Desmond Fine Art, London (introduction by Margaret Garlake)1999 "Orbis - Towards and Beyond" - A historical exhibition of works done before, during, and after the 1969 Apollo 11 Moon landing, Redfern Gallery, London2000 ART 2000 - Redfern Gallery stand devoted entirely to his work.
See also * List of German painters
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