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Peter Kinley
Peter Kinley (1926–1988), a painter of landscapes and figures approaching abstraction.
He moved to Britain in the late 1930s. A retrospective was held at the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, in 1982, followed by a solo exhibition at Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, in 1986, which subsequently toured. Kinley's work is held in public collections, including Tate.
He was born in Vienna and came to Britain in 1938. His father was Jewish and was forced to leave after Britain’s annexation in 1938. Kinley was sent to school in Lytham St Annes and raised by a Catholic family; his parents were interned in France. He served in the army from 1944 to 1948, then studied at the Düsseldorf Academy from 1948 to 1949 and at Saint Martin’s School of Art from 1949 to 1953. He exhibited in Gimpel Fils’s “Six Young Contemporaries” exhibitions in 1951 and 1953 and was influenced by the 1953 de Staël exhibition in London. Kinley’s first solo exhibition was at Gimpel Fils in London in 1954, and at Paul Rosenberg & Co. in New York in January 1961.
He studied at the Düsseldorf Academy and later at Saint Martin’s School of Art, where he also taught. In the early 1960s, his knowledge of Islamic art and architecture led him to take an interest in other Eastern cultures, particularly Indian culture. He began collecting Indian paintings and handicrafts. India’s systems of color and composition aligned with his own search for a visual language in which objects—people, houses, airplanes—could be expressed with all the clarity of an image without losing subtlety. His work appeared in Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr, and Martin Butlin’s Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London, 1964. In 1970, he left London to teach at Bath College, and his work began to reflect his more rural life. He considered his work figurative—not realist or naturalist in the 19th-century sense, but grounded in observation of its subjects. Kinley died in September 1988.
Artwork title: Large House with Two Gables
Poster size: 60 * 85 cm
Original poster from an art museum
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Original poster; size and framing options are listed above.