Roger Hilton

Roger Hilton ( born April 30, 1911 in Northwood / Middlesex, London, England; † February 23, 1975 in St Just, Cornwall, England) was a British painter British- German origin. He was an important representative of the British abstract art in the 20th century. He is considered a pioneer of abstract painting in England before the Second World War.

Life

Roger Hilton studied at the Slade School of Art in London and later at the École Bissiere in Paris in the 1930s. He began as a figurative painter before going into the 1950s - began painting abstract - even under the influence of Piet Mondrian. In 1953 he lived in the Netherlands. His work has stood since 1956 in close contact with the British group of painters St Ives Group in Cornwall, to among other things, Peter Lanyon, Terry Frost, Patrick Heron, Bryan Wynter and William Scott were. In 1959, Hilton was at the documenta 2 in Kassel.

Roger Hilton spent his last years confined to bed and drawn from alcoholism.