John Hoyland

John Hoyland ( born October 12, 1934 in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England; † July 31, 2011 in London) was a British painter and printmaker. He was considered one of the leading abstract painters in the UK.

Life and work

John Hoyland studied at Leighton Park School, and from 1951 to 1960 at the Sheffield School of Art and at the Royal Academy Schools. He was appointed in 1991 to the Royal Academy and was appointed professor at the Royal Academy Schools in 1999.

His first solo exhibition was in 1964 at the Marlborough Gallery in New London. In 1967 he had a solo exhibition at the Whitechapel Art Gallery. In the 1960s Hoyland, his works were characterized by simple shapes, intense color and a flat -screen surface. In the 1970s his paintings were always more texture. He exhibited during the 1970s and 1980s in the Waddington Galleries in London.

In 1968, Hoyland was 4 abstract oil paintings participants in the documenta 4 in Kassel. During the 1960s and 1970s, he exhibited his paintings in New York City at the Robert Elkon Gallery and the Gallery André Emmerich. Include His paintings are the styles of Post- Painterly Abstraction, Color Field Painting and Lyrical Abstraction.

Retrospectives of his images found at the Serpentine Gallery (1979 ), the Royal Academy (1999) and Tate St Ives ( 2006). His works are part of numerous public and private collections, including the Tate Gallery in London.

Literature and sources

• Exhibition catalog for Documenta IV: IV documentation. International Exhibition; Catalogue: Volume 1: ( painting and sculpture ); Volume 2: (graphics / objects ); Kassel 1968
• Kimpel, Harald / stem, Karin: documenta IV International Exhibition 1968 - A photographic reconstruction ( Series of the documenta - Archives); Bremen 2007, ISBN 978-3-86108-524-9