1889 — 1946

Nationality: United Kingdom

Paul Nash was an English painter and printmaker, and one of the key figures of 20th-century British art. Known first as an official war artist in both World Wars, he turned trench-scarred ground and ruins into symbolic visions where shattered trees, rutted roads, and brooding skies become metaphors for memory and trauma. From the 1930s onward he developed a language close to Surrealism and Neo-Romanticism, filled with rocks, objects, and enigmatic structures.