Elisabeth Frink

Elisabeth Jean Frink (call sign ' Lis ' or ' Liz ') (Thurlow, Suffolk, 14 november 1930 - Blandford Forum Dorset, 18 april 1993), was an English sculptor.



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[hide] *1 life and work  ==Life and work[ Edit] == Willi Soukop Frink studied from 1946 to 1949 at the Guildford School of Art and from 1949 to 1953 at Bernard Meadows at the Chelsea School of Art in London. She was with Kenneth Armitage, Reg Butler, Bernard Meadows and Eduardo Paolozzi to the generation sculptors of right after the Second World War, but stuck to a naturalistic style.Frink was fascinated by falling and winged figures, birds, horses and religious motifs.
 * 2 works (selection)
 * 3 Literature
 * 4 Photo Gallery
 * 5 external links

Frink from 1953 to 1961 taught sculpture at the Chelsea School of Art, from 1954 to 1962 at Saint Martin's School of Art from 1965 to 1967 and was visiting professor at theRoyal College of Art in London. Frink lived in France from 1967 to 1970. Back in England she created monumental, male nudes, often masked, as Running Man (1976).

Elisabeth Frink received a CBE in 1962 and a DBE in 1982. She was a member of the Royal Academy of Arts. ==Works (selection)[ Edit] == ==Literature[ Edit] ==
 * Bird (1952), Tate Modern in London
 * Dead Them (1957), Tate Modern
 * Bird Man V (1959, The Hepworth Wakefield
 * Warhorse and Walking Madonnain Chatsworth, Chatsworth House , Derbyshire
 * Horse and Rider (1969), the sculpture park of the Cass Sculpture Foundation in Goodwood, on the Trafalgar Square in Winchester and in the Toronto Sculpture Park(since 1975) in Toronto
 * Shepherd and Sheep (1975), Paternoster Square in London
 * Running Man (1976), Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh
 * Flying One, Odette Sculpture Park in Windsor (Ontario)
 * Running One (1978), Yorkshire Sculpture Park
 * Dorset Martyrs (1986), Dorchester (Dorset)
 * Walking Man (1986), Jerwood Sculpture Trail, Ragley Hall in Warwickshire
 * Riace Figures (1987/89), Yorkshire Sculpture Park
 * Sitting Man (1986), Yorkshire Sculpture Park
 * Lying and standing (1988), Yorkshire Sculpture Park
 * Desert Quartet (1990), Liverpool Gardens in Worthing
 * Risen Christ (1993), Liverpool Cathedral in Liverpool
 * Stephen Gardiner: Elisabeth Frink-The Official Biography, Harper Collins Publishers. ISBN 0-00-255606-5.
 * B Robertson and others: Elisabeth Frink-Catalogue Raisonné. Sculpture to 1984, Harpvale Books (1984). ISBN 0-946425-05-1.
 * Edward Lucie-Smith: Elisabeth Frink-Catalogue Raisonné. Sculpture since 1984 & Drawings, Art Books International. ISBN 1-874044-04-X.