Paul Ludwig Horst Feiler (30 April 1918 – 8 July 2013)[1] was a German-born artist who was a prominent member of the St Ives School of art: he has pictures hanging in major art galleries across the world.
[2][3][4][5] Paul Feiler was born in 1918 in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany into a cultivated family of lawyers, doctors and liberal politicians; his father was a professor of dentistry.
His parents in 1936 moved to London: his father established himself as a dentist in Harley Street.
Paul studied at the Slade School of Fine Art in London 1936–1939 with artists such as Patrick Heron, Bryan Wynter and Kenneth Armitage.
Paul Feiler married the artist June Miles in 1945: they had two daughters and a son – the marriage was later dissolved.