Kenneth Armitage
Kenneth Armitage was born in Leeds, England, in 1916 and studied at Leeds College of Art, like Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth before him. Further study in london was followed by army service during the 2nd World war. After the war he ran the sculpture department at the Bath Academy at Corsham.
His work came to international prominence in the 1952 British Pavillion at the Venice Biennale where he exhibited along his contemporaries Reg Butler, Lynn Chadwick, Bernard Meadows and others who were championed as the 'New Bronze Age' sculptors. In 1953 he became the first Gregory Fellow in Sculpture at Leeds University. Throughout the 50's and 60's he exhibited widely and was collected by all the major museums worldwide. He also became a visiting professor in Venezuela, the USA and Germany. He was elected a Royal Academician in 1995.
