John Piper
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- subject matching 'Buildings and architecture'
John Piper
by Bill Brandt
bromide print, 1945
9 7/8 in. x 7 3/4 in. (251 mm x 197 mm)
Purchased, 1982
Primary Collection
NPG P194
Sitterback to top
- John Egerton Christmas Piper (1903-1992), Artist and writer. Sitter in 59 portraits, Artist or producer of 1 portrait.
Artistback to top
- Bill Brandt (1904-1983), Photographer. Artist or producer of 120 portraits, Sitter in 34 portraits.
This portraitback to top
Photographed at his farmhouse near Henley. Published in Harper's Bazaar, NY, July 1945 and Lilliput, June 1948.
Linked publicationsback to top
- MacCarthy, Fiona, Anarchy & Beauty: William Morris and His Legacy 1860-1960, 2014 (accompanying the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from 16 October 2014 - 11 January 2015), p. 124
- Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 495
Placesback to top
- Place made and portrayed: United Kingdom: England, Buckinghamshire (sitter's house, Fawley Bottom Farmhouse, Buckinghamshire)
Linked displays and exhibitionsback to top
- Anarchy and Beauty: William Morris (16 October 2014 - 11 January 2015)
- Bill Brandt: Portraits 1982 (7 May 2004 - 22 August 2004)
Events of 1945back to top
Current affairs
Despite Churchill's popularity during, and indeed after, the War, Clement Attlee wins a landslide Labour victory in the general election. Labour's success was due to its promise of a better society through the Welfare state, and was demonstrative of the public's desire for a new and better post-War society.Art and science
Noel Coward's Brief Encounter is released. The film, based on Coward's play, Still Life, is about the love affair between two married people who meet at a railway station. Conscious of the risk of being caught the couple decide to break off their relationship to protect their marriages.George Orwell publishes his satirical novel Animal Farm, as an allegorical critique of Soviet Totalitarianism.
International
A war on two fronts finally proves too much for Germany as allied forces push from the East and West. On the 30th April Hitler committed suicide and Germany soon surrendered to Soviet troops. Victory in Europe was announced on the 8th May. War in the Pacific continued until America dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing 214,000 people, and ending the war with Japan.Comments back to top
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