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Brian Wall was born on 5 September, 1931 in London, England, is a British sculptor. Discover Brian Wall's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 92 years old?

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Age 92 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 5 September, 1931
Birthday 5 September
Birthplace London, England
Nationality United States

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Brian Wall is a British-born American sculptor now living in California.

His work consists mainly of abstract welded steel constructions, and his career stretches over six decades.

He has had numerous solo shows, and his sculptures reside in many private and museum collections.

He was a faculty member at the Central School of Art in London, and a professor of art at the University of California, Berkeley.

1931

Brian Wall was born in Paddington, London, England in 1931; he evacuated to Yorkshire during the London Blitz of World War II.

Back in London after the war, he left school at the age of 14 to take a factory job as a glass-blower.

1952

He served in the Royal Air Force as an aerial reconnaissance photographer before beginning his career as an artist in 1952, initially as a figurative painter.

1954

He moved to St. Ives, Cornwall in 1954, where there was a thriving artist colony.

He worked as an assistant to Barbara Hepworth, a leading Modernist sculptor.

He associated with prominent St. Ives artists, including Ben Nicholson, Peter Lanyon, Patrick Heron, and Terry Frost, as well as young contemporaries Trevor Bell and Anthony Benjamin.

He was also close to the poet W.S. Graham.

Wall joined the Penwith Society of Arts, an organization of artists at St. Ives which promoted their work to the public, becoming secretary.

At St. Ives he learned to weld steel, a skill he would use in his art for the rest of his life.

1956

By 1956 he had started making abstract welded steel sculptures, one of the earliest British artists to do so.

The use of welded steel in sculpture was unusual then, pioneered by Julio González and David Smith.

His early work consisted of geometrical pieces of steel, mostly rectangular plates and rods, welded into a whole.

As his style evolved, the elements became more freely-placed into a dynamic construction.

1960

After six years in St. Ives, Wall moved to London in 1960, where he interacted with writers, actors, and artists in the social energy of "swinging London."

A piece of his, "Four Elements," appeared in an opening scene of the movie "Blowup".

1962

In 1962 he became the Head of Sculpture at the Central School of Art in London, and remained there until he emigrated to the U.S.A. in 1972.

1966

Pete Townshend of the band "The Who" was a student of Wall's at Ealing Art College, and he is included in the seminal book about the London art scene of the ‘60s, “Private View”, 1966, with photographs by Lord Snowden, written by Bryan Robertson and John Russell.

Wall continued to refine his work in abstract steel sculptures and began to have his work shown in London galleries and museums, including a solo exhibition at the Grosvenor Gallery, and in the Tate Gallery's show "British Sculpture of the Sixties".

1967

His work appeared in the New British Painting and Sculpture show in London, 1967–68 and at the Arnolfini Gallery in Bristol, England.

1968

Wall received an important commission to build a monumental sculpture in Thornaby, England, in 1968, the largest sculpture in England at the time.

1969

Invited in 1969–70 as a visiting professor in the Art Department of the University of California, Berkeley, Wall joined the faculty permanently as professor in 1972, eventually serving as chair of the department; he retired in 1994.

1970

In the 1970s, Wall exhibited in solo shows at Sculpture Now and Max Hutchinson Gallery in New York; San Jose State University, California; University of Nevada, Las Vegas; and Braunstein Quay Gallery, San Francisco.

1973

During that period he met Sylvia Brown, whom he married in 1973.

1975

In 1975 Wall and Brown moved from Berkeley to San Francisco, and Wall established a studio in Emeryville, California across the San Francisco Bay in the same year, where he continues to create his sculptures.

1982

In 1982 a retrospective exhibit appeared at the Seattle Museum of Art and travelled to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

1983

In 1983 Brian Wall became a U.S. citizen.

His newest works comprise stainless steel pieces, still welded into purely abstract forms.

2014

In 2014, Wall and Brown founded the Brian Wall Foundation, which benefits working artists in financial need in conjunction with the Pollock-Krasner Foundation.

Wall has been represented by several galleries through the years, including Kasmin Gallery, London; Grosvenor Gallery, London; Flowers in London, Santa Monica, and New York; Sculpture Now and Max Hutchinson Galleries in New York; John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco; Jernigan Wicker Fine Arts, San Francisco; and Hackett | Mill Gallery, San Francisco.

At St. Ives, Brian Wall's work progressed from paintings to reliefs to sculptures.

Wall's early sculptures consisted of geometrical wooden constructions, painted in bright primary colors, reminiscent of the work of Piet Mondrian and influenced by the Dutch abstract art movement "de Stijl".

Wassily Kandinsky brought a German expressionist influence with the book "Concerning the Spiritual in Art".

Wall studied Zen Buddhism, reading " Zen in the Art of Archery" and met the Zen master D.T. Suzuki when he visited St. Ives.

Wall was exposed to writers, e.g., James Joyce and George Bernard Shaw; and jazz in this period, all of which influenced his art.

He built his own aesthetic, constructing a sculpture as a jazz musician improvises a melody.

2015

These were displayed at a solo show at the de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, California in 2015.