Eduardo paolozzi death
Born 7 March in Leith, Edinburgh. Eduardo Luigi Paolozzi,
first child of Maria and Rudolfo Paolozzi
Interned when Italy declared war on Britain and quickly released.
Father and maternal grandfather interned and then killed when the transport boat they were on to Canada was torpedoed
Attends Edinburgh College of Art
Conscripted into the army
Met future wife Freda Elliott
Discharged from army as unfit for service
Attends the Ruskin Drawing School of Drawing at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Transferred to the Slade School of Fine Art, which had moved to Oxford during the war, where it shared the facilities of the Ruskin Drawing School
Enrolled on Sculpture and Drawing diploma course at Slade.
Taught sculpture by A.H. Gerrard. Studied modeling from Antique and life; stone carving, lettering and various technical processes involved in the production of sculpture Made friends with William Turnbull and Nigel Henderson. Met Margaret Gardiner, Roland Penrose, John Davenport, Peter Watson and E.C. (Peter) Gregory
Modelled concrete sculpture for first one-man exhibition.
Made collages with images of ancient sculpture and mechanical parts taken from books
Drawings by Eduardo Paolozzi, Mayor Gallery (January)
Resigns from Slade and moves to Paris.
Paolozzi eduardo biography of martin Taught sculpture part-time at St Martin’s School of Art (until ) Eduardo Paolozzi, Plastik und Graphik, Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf.Visited by William Turnbull and Freda Elliott. With Nigel Henderson visited Musée de l’Homme and met Léger, Arp, Braque, Brancusi, Balthus, Dubuffet, Tristan Tzara, Hélion and Alberto Giacometti
An Exhibition of Recent Drawings by Eduardo Paolozzi, Mayor Gallery
Begins to make sculptures inspired by Wentworth d’Arcy Thompson, Growth and Form
Eduardo Paolozzi – Drawings and Bas-Reliefs, Mayor Gallery Returns from Paris to live in London.
Lived briefly with Lucian Freud in St John’s Wood, Margaret Gardiner in Hampstead and Nigel & Judith Henderson in Bethnal Green. Shared studio with William Turnbull
Towards end of year or early started teaching textile design part-time at Central School of Art and Design (until )
Kenneth King, Eduardo Paolozzi, William Turnbull, Hanover Gallery – exhibited six sculptures in bronze and plaster Meets the architects Jane Drew and Maxwell Fry
Fountain installed at Festival of Britain site by Royal Festival Hall
Arts Council of Great Britain commissioned Cage Married Freda Elliott
Exhibited at 1st Fitzroy Street exhibition
Bunk! lecture at ICA
Exhibited at 2nd Fitzroy Street exhibition Included in New Aspects of British Sculpture, British Pavilion, Venice Biennale with Robert Adams, Kenneth Armitage, Reg Butler, Lynn Chadwick, Geoffrey Clarke, Bernard Meadows, Henry Moore and William Turnbull
Visits Venice, Viticuso and Naples
Awarded British Critics’ Prize
Finalist, International Sculpture Competition: The Unknown Political Prisoner
Fountain design for Bundesgartenschau, Hamburg Exhibited at 3rd Fitzroy Street exhibition
Co-curated Parallel of Lifeand Art, ICA, with Nigel Henderson, and Peter and Alison Smithson
Founded Hammer Prints Ltd with Nigel & Judith Henderson
Collages and Objects, ICA, exhibited Time collages and Psychological Atlas scrapbook
First child born, Louise Carmella Paolozzi
Studio at Dorothy Morland’s home in Hampstead
Mother died
Eduardo Paolozzi – Work in Progress, ICA (members’ room)
Taught sculpture part-time at St Martin’s School of Art (until )
This is Tomorrow, ‘Patio and Pavilion’ with Henderson and Smithsons
An Experiment with Child Art – An Exhibition by Eduardo Paolozzi, ICA (members’ room)
Won William and Noma Copley Foundation Award Begins to incorporate found objects into surface of sculpture
Eduardo Paolozzi, Nigel Henderson, Arts Council Gallery,
Cambridge
Second child born, Anna Francesca
Image-Making-God Breaking lecture, ICA – projected images of crashed cars, aircraft, and explained his artistic process as the ‘metamorphosis of rubbish’
Paolozzi Sculpture, Hanover Gallery
Visited United States
The Developing Process, ICA
Included in New Images of Man exhibition, MoMA,
New York
Moved studio to Dovehouse Street, Chelsea
Eduardo Paolozzi, Betty Parsons Gallery, New York
Third child born, Emma Naomi
Exhibited 22 bronzes from at Venice Biennale
Won David E.
Bright Foundation Award for Best Sculptor under 45
Appointed advisor on sculpture and design at Hochschule für bildende Künste, Hamburg
Sculpture, Drawings and Collages by Eduardo Paolozzi,
Manchester City Art Gallery
Meets Gabrielle Kieller
Develops designs for sculpture in gunmetal and alloys.
Collaborates with C.W.
Juby’s Alpha Engineering Works,
Ipswich to make these sculptures
Won Watson F. Blair Prize, Chicago
Made the film The History of Nothing in or
Paolozzi, Betty Parsons Gallery, New York
Started making screenprints with Christopher Prater
Eduardo Paolozzi, New Works, Waddington Galleries
Visited New York, Mexico and South America
Began collages for As Is When
Began colouring sculptures
Eduardo Paolozzi: Recent Sculpture, Robert Fraser Gallery
Eduardo Paolozzi: Sculpture, MoMA, New York
Eduardo Paolozzi: Sculptures, Drawings and Collages, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle
As Is When published by Editions Alecto
Made the film Kakafon Kakkoon
Eduardo Paolozzi, Recent Sculpture (A Selection of Works from to ), Pace Gallery, New York
Collaboration with Jim Dine
Eduardo Paolozzi: Sculpture; Prints, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
Eduardo Paolozzi, Recent Sculpture (A Selection of Works from to ), Robert Fraser Gallery
Eduardo Paolozzi, Anthony Caro, Kröller-Müller, Rijksmuseum, Otterlo
Eduardo Paolozzi: Sculpture and Graphics, Hanover Gallery
Eduardo Paolozzi: New Sculpture and Screenprints, Pace Gallery, New York
Universal Electronic Vacuum published
Won Pittsburgh International sculpture prize
Awarded CBE
Eduardo Paolozzi: Seriegrafieën
Appointed Visiting Lecturer, Art Department, University of California, Berkeley
Eduardo Paolozzi: A Print Retrospective, Worth Ryder Art Gallery, University of California, Berkeley
Eduardo Paolozzi, Hanover Gallery
Began part-time teaching of ceramics at Royal College of Art
Eduardo Paolozzi, Plastik und Graphik, Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf
Paolozzi, Plastiken, Graphik, Würtembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart
Kunstgebaüde am Schlossplatz; and Kunsthaus, Hamburg
Eduardo Paolozzi, Complete Graphics, Galerie Mikro, Berlin
Eduardo Paolozzi: An Exhibition of Original Sculpture, Drawings, Prints and Enlarged Black and White Photographs, Kunstmuseum, Göteborg
Visited Japan
Eduardo Paolozzi, Skulpture og grafik, Kunstmuseum, Aarhus
Eduardo Paolozzi, Tate Gallery
Made film Mr Machine
Eduardo Paolozzi: The Conditional Probability Machine, St Katharines Gallery, St Andrews University
Cleish Castle commission
Eduardo Paolozzi: Bunk, Victoria & Albert Museum
Began Charles Ives screenprints
Began Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) fellowship in Berlin
Cast reliefs at Noack Foundry
Eduardo Paolozzi, Skulpturen, Reliefs, Zeichnungen, Grafik, Galerie Wentzel, Hamburg
Eduardo Paolozzi, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover, touring exhibition
Eduardo Paolozzi, Skulpturen, Zeichnungen, Collagen,
Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin
Eduardo Paolozzi, Handzeichnungen, Collagen, Druckgrafik, Kunsthalle, Bremen
Commissioned to make doors for the new Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow
Eduardo Paolozzi, New Reliefs and Sculpture, Marlborough Fine Art
Eduardo Paolozzi: Recent Work, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
Eduardo Paolozzi: Sculpture, Drawings, Collages and Graphics, Arts Council touring exhibition
Eduardo Paolozzi, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, toured Canada
Eduardo Paolozzi: Collages and Drawings, Anthony d’Offay Gallery Eduardo Paolozzi, Holzreliefs, Zeichnungen, Prägerdrucke, Holzstiche, Galerie Renate Fassbender, Munich The Complete Prints of Eduardo Paolozzi: Prints, Drawings, Collages , Victoria & Albert Museum Appointed Professor of Ceramics at Fachhochschule, Fachbereich Kunst und Design, Cologne
Eduardo Paolozzi, Kleinplastiken, Zeichnungen, Graphik, Kasseler Kunstverein, Kassel
Eduardo Paolozzi: The Development of the Idea, Crawford Art Centre, St Andrews University Eduardo Paolozzi: Work in Progress, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne Commissioned by Crown Estate Commissioners to design Cooling Tower, for Drummond Gate, London SW1 Commissioned by City of Mönchengladbach to make wall relief Elected Royal Academician Awarded Honorary Doctorate, Royal College of Art
Commissioned by London Transport to make mosaics for Tottenham Court Road Underground station Appointed to redevelop Rhinegarden, Cologne British Railways Board commission Piscator for Euston Square Installation of doors for Hunterian Art Gallery
Commissioned by Redditch Development Corporation to make mosaics for Milward Square, Kingfischer Shopping Centre, Redditch Appointed Professor of Sculpture at the Akademie der bildenden Künste, Munich (until ) Won Saltire Society Award for the Hunterian Art Gallery doors Elected Honorary Member of Architectural Association
Commissioned by City of Cologne to design playground for Schulzentrum Köln-Pesch Commissioned by Bundesgartenshau to design Catastrophe Fountain for Massiner Weg park, Berlin
Eduardo Paolozzi, Kunst und Bau, Architectural Projects, Aedes Galerie für Architektur und Raum Eduardo Paolozzi: Druckgrafik, DAAD Galerie, Berlin Awarded Grand Prix d’Honneur, 15th International Print Biennal, Ljubljana
Eduardo Paolozzi: Private Vision – Public Art, The Architectural Association Eduardo Paolozzi: Graphics and Sculpture, New Metropole Arts Centre, Folkstone Eduardo Paolozzi, Hefte der Akademie der bildenden Künste, Munich Eduardo Paolozzi, Recurring Themes, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh Elected to Council of the Architectural Association
Paolozzi Underground, Royal Academy Studierende bei Eduardo Paolozzi, Akademie der bildenden Kunst, Munich Commissioned by the Secretary of State for the Environment to make On This Island for the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre Curated Lost Magic Kingdoms and Six Paper Moons from Nahuatl, Museum of Mankind Elected Fellow of University College, London University Victoria & Albert Museum bought The Krazy Kat Arkive For Leonardo made for lawn in front of Alte Pinakothek, Munich On This Island installed at Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre Appointed Her Majesty’s Sculptor in Ordinary for Scotland Eduardo Paolozzi: Köpfe, Skulpturenmuseum Glastkasten, Marl
Eduardo Paolozzi: Sculptures From a Garden, Serpentine Gallery The Artist as Hephaestus installed at High Holborn
Marriage dissolved, Paolozzi Portraits, National Portrait Gallery Appointed trustee of National Portrait Gallery Unter Heldern und Göttern, Eduardo Paolozzi und Junge Bildhauer der Müncher Akademie in der Glyptothek, Glyptothek, Munich Eduardo Paolozzi: Small Things, Victoria & Albert Museum
Knighted The Concept of Newton installed Kowloon Park, Hong Kong Eduardo Paolozzi: Nullius in Verba, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh Eduardo Paolozzi: Made in Munich, Akademie Galerie, Munich Installation of Polygraphia Nova, Stadtsparkasse Ungerstrasse, Munich Appointed Visiting Professor, Royal College of Art Eduardo Paolozzi, Arche Noah, Puppentheatermussem, Stadtmuseum, Munich Installation of Newton after James Watt, Design Museum
Eduardo Paolozzi: Mythologies, The Scottish Gallery Retired from Professorship of Sculpture at Akademie der bildenden Künste, Munich Elected Corresponding Member of Die Bayerische Akademie der bildenden Künste, Munich Installation of Master of the Universe, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh Made Egypt for Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisberg Commissioned by British Library to make a sculpture for the new British Library, St Pancras
Awarded Goethe Medal at a ceremony in Frankfurt Appointed Cavaliere Officiale, Ordine al Merito della Republica Italiana Eduardo Paolozzi: Works from Germany, Goethe Institute, London Installation of The Manuscript of Monte Cassino, Picardy Place, Leith Walk, Edinburgh
Installation of The Wealth of Nations, Royal Bank of Scotland HQ, Edinburgh Installation of Athena, London Oratory School
Eduardo Paolozzi, 70th Birthday Exhibition, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield Sculpture in the Close, Jesus College, Cambridge Paolozzi Foundation set up
Installation of Newton after Blake, British Library Announcement of substantial gift of works and archival material to National Galleries of Scotland, and of plan to dedicate the Dean Gallery to the display of Paolozzi’s work
Curated ‘Eduardo Paolozzi: The Jesus Works and Store; An Attempt to Describe an Indescribable Film’, Spellbound: Art and Film, Hayward Gallery Eduardo Paolozzi: Artificial Horizons and Eccentric Ladders, Works on Paper to , British Council touring exhibition Visiting Lecturer, Edinburgh College of Art
Installation of Parthenope and Egeria at the Michael Swann Building, Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology, Edinburgh University Newton after Blake, British Library, unveiled
Deed of gift to National Galleries of Scotland signed
Dean Gallery, Edinburgh opened.
Displays and installations of Paolozzi’s work, including Vulcan
Installation of Vulcan, Central Square, Newcastle Faraday unveiled at Birmingham University