Walter Richard Sickert ( . English Walter Richard Sickert; 31 on May 1860 , Munich - 22 January 1942 , Bat ) - English painter of the transition period between impressionism and modernism . Characterized by an eccentric character. Some researchers, such as Patricia Cornwell , name Sikert associated with the crimes of the so-called Jack the Ripper .
| Walter Sickert | |
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| English Walter sickert | |
 Walter Sickert. Photograph of George Charles Beresford , 1911 . | |
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| A place of death | Bat |
| Citizenship |  United Kingdom |
| Genre | household genre |
| Study | James whistler Edgar Degas |
Biography
Walter Sickert was born in the artist's family. His father was of Danish-German descent, his mother was of Anglo-Irish. Walter's sister, Helen Svanvik , subsequently became a famous feminist and pacifist . In 1868, the Sickert family moved to England. After leaving school at the age of 17, Walter first chooses an actor's career, then enters Whistler's art workshop; after studying painting in Paris from Edgar Degas . In art circles, W. Sickert after the exhibition of his paintings, held in 1884, was considered a student of Whistler.
Sickert preferred in his paintings to depict ordinary people in their usual living environment. He also often painted scenes from concert and theatrical life, and the theater public. He worked as a teacher in evening courses. Many of Sickert's works were exhibited by the New English Art Club . In 1894-1895, his drawings were published by Aubrey Beardsley in his journal The Yellow Book . The artist visits the music hall Old Bedford, where he makes sketches for his paintings (among them βLittle Dot Hetherington in Old Bedfordβ ).
In 1885, Sickert married Helen Cobden, daughter of a liberal politician; in 1899 - divorced her. Cosmopolitan by belief, the artist after a divorce lives in Venice , Dieppe and Paris. In 1905 he returned to London , lives in Soho . In 1911, together with the artist Harold Gilman , creates the art group Camden Town . Before the outbreak of World War I, W. Sickert supported the modernist artists Jacob Epstein , Augustus John , Lucien Pissarro and Wyndham Lewis .
In the final period of his work, Sickert, under the influence of Degas, used photographs or motifs of old, Victorian paintings as the basis for his paintings. He also continued literary, critical and teaching activities. Since 1924 - a member of the Royal Academy of Arts . In 1941, a great retrospective of the artistic work of W. Sickert was arranged at the London National Gallery .
A great friend of the artist and collector of his paintings was a patron Lord Beaverbrook . Sickert himself was a mentor in the painting of Winston Churchill .
Sickert Hypothesis Jack the Ripper
The various theories on the establishment of a mass murderer person Jack the Ripper repeatedly considered the artist William Sickert (for example, in 1976 by Steven Knight, in 2002 - Patricia Cornwell ). However, most researchers do not find support for identifying Sikert with a killer.
Notes
- β 1 2 BNF identifier : Open Data Platform 2011.
- β 1 2 Walter Richard Sickert
- β 1 2 Benezit Dictionary of Artists - 2006. - ISBN 978-0-19-977378-7 , 978-0-19-989991-3
- β German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , and others. The Record # 118797034 // Common regulatory control (GND) - 2012-2016.