Eduardo Paolozzi
Artist
Biography
Sir Eduardo Paolozzi (1924–2005) was a Scottish artist known for his sculpture and graphic works, widely considered one of the pioneers of Pop art. Born in Leith, Edinburgh, to Italian immigrants, he studied at Edinburgh College of Art and the Slade School of Fine Art and worked in Paris from 1947 to 1949, where he met Giacometti, Arp, Brâncuși, Braque and Léger. In 1952 he was a founder of the Independent Group, regarded as the precursor of British Pop art. He had a long association with Germany: he worked in Berlin from 1974 on the DAAD Berlin Artist Programme, was a professor in Cologne from 1977 to 1981 and later taught sculpture at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich.