School of Art

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School of Art
Aberystwyth University
Buarth Mawr
Aberystwyth
Ceredigion
SY23 1NG

Tel: +44 (0)1970 622460

Fax: +44 (0)1970 622461

Email: artschool@aber.ac.uk


Display artist/maker:

William Wilson

Born: 1905, UK, Scotland, Edinburgh   Died: 1972

Painter, printmaker and stained glass designer. Served an apprenticeship to a stained glass designer before studying at Edinburgh College of Art, c.1929-31, where he won a scholarship to travel in Europe during 1932. Two years later he studied contemporary stained glass in Germany and then, in 1935, engraving under Robert Austin (1895-1973) at the Royal College of Art. By 1937 he had set up his own stained glass studio in Edinburgh producing work for churches and private clients. He was Secretary of the Society of Artist-Printmakers during the 1930s. His watercolours, wood engravings and etchings depict townscapes, landscapes and harbour scenes in Scotland, France, Venice, Cornwall and Essex

Objects in the collections associated with this artist/maker

Der Klien Soldat PR2137 Prints




 
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