Paul Feiler

PAUL FEILER Frankfurt 1918 - 2013 Cornwall Paul Feiler was born in Frankfurt and came to England to be educated. He attended the Slade School of Art, but at the outbreak of war was interned in Canada. He returned to England in 1941 and taught at Radley and Eastbourne Colleges until the end of the war. In 1946 he joined the staff of the West of England College of Art at Bristol and became Head of Painting in 1963. He first visited Cornwall in 1949 and quickly became associated with the other painters living in the area. In 1968 he received an Arts Council Award. In 1953 he bought a chapel at Kerris, Paul, near Penzance where he lived with his wife, the painter, Catharine Armitage. His studio at Paul, which he purchased in 1975, was Stanhope Forbes's first studio in Cornwall.