Adrian Berg
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Adrian Berg | |
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| Born | 12 March 1929 London, England |
| Died | 22 October 2011 (aged 82) |
| Education | Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Trinity College Dublin |
| Known for | Landscape painting |
Adrian Berg RA (12 March 1929 – 22 October 2011) was an English painter known for his landscapes, many of them images of Regent's Park, London. Although some of his works appear almost naturalistic, typically they defy conventional notions of perspective and coloration. Instead they combine multiple viewpoints and time periods in a single image.[1] His paintings are included in the permanent collections of the British Council, the British Museum, the European Parliament, the Royal Academy of Arts, the Tate, and the Victoria and Albert Museum, among others.[2]
Berg was born in London, the son of Charles Berg, a prominent Freudian psychiatrist and author, and Sarah Berg, and raised in Primrose Hill until he was sent to preparatory school and then to the private Charterhouse School in Surrey. In 1949 he went to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, to study medicine but later switched to English. He subsequently earned a degree in education from Trinity College Dublin and taught at schools in North London for two years,[3][4] including Highgate Junior School under Kyffin Williams from January 1955,[5] before deciding to study art at a variety of institutions, ending with the Royal College of Art. While in art school he became friends with a fellow student, David Hockney; the two remained close until the end of Berg's life.[3][4]
