Sir Eduardo Paolozzi

Eduardo Paolozzi was born of Italian parents in Leith, Edinburgh, in 1924. He attended evening classes at Edinburgh College of Art (1943) with the intention of becoming a commercial artist and then studied at St Martin's School of Art (1944) and at the Slade School of Fine Art (1945-47). In 1947 he went to Paris, living there for two years, enrolling briefly at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and meeting artists such as Arp, Brancusi, Giacometti and Léger. Back in London he taught in several art schools, whilst developing his sculpture and ...