Paul Feiler

Paul Feiler

(b. 1918 Frankfurt, Germany – immigrated to England 1936 – d. 2013 Cornwall, England)

Coast Grey, Cornwall, 1958 Oil on canvas 90.2 x 80 cm Private Collection

Feiler’s lyrical abstract style is rooted in the natural world, particularly the Cornish landscape he so admired. Born into a German-Jewish family who relocated to England in 1936, Feiler studied at the Slade School of Fine Art (1936–39) alongside Patrick Heron and Bryan Wynter, among others. He was interned on the Isle of Man in 1940, then in Canada until 1941. On his return he taught art at Eastbourne College (evacuated to Radley College, Oxford) and later at the West of England College of Art in Bristol, where he became Head of Painting. He moved to Cornwall in 1975 and was associated with the St. Ives School.