Willi Soukop, RA (Master of Sculpture)
(Austria, 1907 - Glasgow, 1995)
Meditation - Mid Century Modernist
Bronze & Wood
Signed "wS 1 / 9"
20 x 5 cms (figure)
25 x 15 cms (wooden niche)
Provenance :
Private Collection United Kingdom
[with] Contemporary Art Management

Willi Soukop, sculptor and teacher was born in Austria. He studied at the Academy of Fine Art, Vienna 1928 - 34. He left Austria in 1934 and moved to Dartington Hall, Devon, where he remained until 1940. He taught at the Guildhall and Chelsea Schools of Art and exhibited widely during his life. Soukop worked in stone, wood, metal and clay his work includes public works, including a mural in concrete for Elmington Estate, Camberwell, 1959, as well as those held in the Royal Academy and Tate collections.

Willi Soukop was a member of the Royal Academy and Master of the Sculpture School 1969 - 1982, an early tutor of Dame Elisabeth Frink, RA. Soukop's work is prominently on display in public spaces throughout the United Kingdom.

Final image shows Willi Soukop, RA (Master of Sculpture) (Austria, 1907 - Glasgow, 1995) - Meditation 1969 - Terracotta on Wood Base - The Royal Academy of Arts, London Collection.

The Pied Piper of Hamelin wall relief by Willi Soukop, RA is held in the collection of The Courtauld Institute of Art, London as part of the project "Art for social spaces : Public sculpture and urban regeneration in post-war Britain".

Soukop died in Glasgow, Scotland in 1995.

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