词条 | John Frederick Brill |
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Early years and educationAccording to his mother, Brill developed a passion for art at a young age, she said "As a tiny boy, John was always drawing". After school he studied art at the Regent Street Polytechnic. Having studied at the Royal Academy, he went on to pass the entrance exam to study a 3-year diploma course at the Royal College of Art, when the war broke out. In her letter his mother wrote "His creed was that in order to become a great artist, he must suffer. Consequently he joined the Infantry, believing that to be the roughest and hardest of the services."{{Citation needed|date=December 2008}} Military serviceHaving joined up he became a Private in the British Army, 5th Battalion of the East Yorkshire Regiment. He fought in Europe and having survived Dunkirk, and got back to England, his regiment was posted to the Middle East. This would have involved him joining a troop ship likely in Liverpool and sailing around the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa up the East coast of Africa and through the Suez Canal to Cairo. After a time, Brill was transferred to the RASC, his mother "imagined that life would be somewhat slacker in the RASC than the infantry". Wartime artHis passion for drawing does not appear to have been reduced by the war around him. In fact it became a source for his art as related to his mother by his chum; "...when their convoy was bombed, as it frequently was, John would deliberately go out with his sketch book & pencil and sketch everything in sight, especially the faces of the lads as they ran for cover." He painted all the walls of his colleagues canteen, with murals which according to his mother, "represented 'A Soldier's leave in Cairo'. This - I understand, afforded them much interest & amusement." These caught the attention of the officers of the RASC who asked him to create some murals in their Officers Mess. The subject of the murals being "The Pleasures of Avarice" and "The Pleasures of Art", he started a third mural of "The Last Supper", "but this was never finished as his company was moved up the line." The mural appears to represent a combination of these subjects.{{Citation needed|date=December 2008}} He signed the mural on 21 April 1942,[3]{{Unreliable source?|date=December 2008}} a matter of weeks before his death. Brill died on 1 July 1942,[2] the first day of the First Battle of El Alamein, aged 22.[2] He was buried at the El Alamein War Cemetery.[2] References
1. ^{{cite web|last =Simmonds|first =Donald|url =http://www.don-simmonds.co.uk/index.htm|title =Bardiyah (Bardia) Mural by John Brill}} {{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Brill, John Frederick}}2. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 {{cite web |last=Commonwealth War Graves Commission |url=http://www.cwgc.org/search/SearchResults.aspx?surname=Brill&initials=J+F&war=2&yearfrom=1942&yearto=1942&force=Army&nationality=&send.x=42&send.y=14 |title=Last Resting Place |accessdate=29 May 2006 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070327035503/http://www.cwgc.org/search/SearchResults.aspx?surname=Brill&initials=J+F&war=2&yearfrom=1942&yearto=1942&force=Army&nationality=&send.x=42&send.y=14 |archivedate=27 March 2007 |df= }} 3. ^{{cite web|last =Simmonds|first =Donald |url =http://www.don-simmonds.co.uk/updates1.htm|title =Signature Close Up|accessdate =29 May 2006 }} 7 : 1942 deaths|English muralists|Alumni of the University of Westminster|Alumni of the Royal College of Art|Year of birth missing|20th-century English painters|English male painters |
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