- Feliks Topolski
Feliks Topolski (1907-1989) was a Polish-born British
expressionist painter.Felix Topolski was born
August 14 1907 . He studied in theWarsaw Academy of Art and trained as anartillery officer. Later he moved to work inItaly andFrance and eventually moved to UK in 1935 and founded a studio near Waterloo where there is still a free permanent exhibition which chronicles the twentieth century. He married twice, first to Marian Everall and then Caryl J. Stanley.During the
Second World War , Topolski became an officialwar artist and painted scenes of theBattle of Britain and other battlefields. After the war he made a celebrated painting about the first meeting of theUnited Nations . He gained Britishcitizenship in 1947.Topolski painted number of
portrait s of contemporaries, including the authorsH.G. Wells ,Graham Greene ,John Mortimer andEvelyn Waugh , and politiciansHarold Macmillan andAneurin Bevan , He also painted a number ofmural s, contributed toBBC programs and designed theatrical sets.Feliks Topolski died in London in
August 24 1989 and is buried inHighgate Cemetery , London. His son,Daniel Topolski , was a notablerower who captained Oxford in theBoat Race .External links
* [http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ArtistWorks?cgroupid=999999961&artistid=2056&page=1&sole=y&collab=y&attr=y&sort=default&tabview=worklist Topolski's works at the Tate Gallery]
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