Lynn Chadwick (Londra, 24 novembre 1914 – Stroud, 25 aprile 2003) è stato uno scultore inglese. Indice [nascondi] 1 Biografia 2 Immagini 3 Note 4 Collegamenti esterni Biografia [modifica] Si laureò nel 1935 in architettura, ma la sua attività subì un‘interruzione a causa della seconda guerra mondiale, durante la quale Chadwick si arruolò come pilota nell‘aviazione. Subito dopo la fine delle ostilità, l‘artista produsse i suoi primi esperimenti di scultura, come a tutti gli effetti risultarono i mobiles del 1945, parzialmente influenzati dall‘americano Alexander Calder.[1] Le sculture successive, definite balanced sculptures furono massicci oggetti ferrosi e vetrosi, contraddistinti da valenze simboliche. Intorno al 1950 iniziò la serie di profili geometrici raffiguranti animali o esseri di fantasia. Sempre allo stesso anno risale la sua prima mostra personale presso la Galleria Gimpel londinese. Chadwick divenne Commander of the British Empire nel 1964, e gli fu dato l‘Ordre des Arts et des Lettres nel 1985. Morì a Lypiatt Park, Gloucestershire il 25 aprile 2003. British, 1914 - 2003 Chadwick trained at the Merchant Taylor School of Architecture and became a prominent British sculptor and printmaker, winning the Great International Prize for Sculpture at the 28th Venice Bienale. Discouraged from becoming a sculptor due to the economic situation, Chadwick turned to architecture but preferred to work as a draughtsman for architectural firms. After the war, he won a textile design prize in a competition judged by Henry Moore and Graham Sutherland. This led to a contract for design with Linda Ascher which enabled him to move to Gloucestershire and set up as a free lance designer. Designing models, primarily as an architectural project, led Chadwick back towards his original vocation: sculpture. They were displayed as such by the London art dealers Charles and Peter Gimpel, who afterwards gave him a one-man show. Unique in that his tendency is to progress from an abstract form which he then invests with life, rather than vice-versa, Chadwick is perhaps better known as a sculptor. However his prints - mainly colour lithographs - are highly valued in their own right and show great technical skill. A large collection of Chadwick‘s prints are housed at theTate Britain Gallery in London.