Walter sickert biography
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Walter Richard Sickert with his Head Lacking hair c
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Inscribed in brush unknown adjacent 'Photo get into Sickert, smartness shaved his head' resentment back
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Walter Richard Sickert wrestle his Head Shaved c
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Sickert
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Identity:
Oswald Adalbert Sickert (b. ca ), an artist and musician, and Eleanor ('Ellen') Louisa Moravia, his wife (b. ca - d. ), were born in Germany (Oswald became a naturalised British subject). Their children included Walter Richard (b. ), Robert (b. ), Bernhard (b. ), Helena (b. ), Oswald Valentine (b. ca ) and Leanhard (b. ca ). In they were all, except for W. R. Sickert, living at 12 Pembroke Gardens in London.
Walter Richard Sickert, artist and writer on art, came to live in Britain in He married Ellen Cobden on 10 June but they were divorced in
Life:
Sickert met Whistler in when he was a student at the Slade School of Art. He left there in to become Whistler's pupil and studio assistant throughout the s. In January , Sickert visited St Ives, Cornwall, with Whistler and Menpes, and in September , Whistler stayed with Sickert and his wife at the Maison Goude, 21 rue de Sygogne, Dieppe, where they painted together.
Whistler and Sickert often worked from the same model, for example, Thodore Duret, Laura Barr and Stephen Manuel. Sickert commissioned Whistler to paint portraits of both himself (Portrait of Walter Sickert y, Sketch Portrait of Walter Sickert y, Portrait Sketch of Walter Sickert y) and his wife (see Arrangement in Violet and Pink: Mrs Walter Sicker
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Walter Sickert
British artist (–)
Walter Richard SickertRA RBA (31 May – 22 January ) was a German-born British painter and printmaker who was a member of the Camden Town Group of Post-Impressionist artists in early 20th-century London. He was an important influence on distinctively British styles of avant-garde art in the mid and late 20th century.
Sickert was a cosmopolitan and an eccentric who often favoured ordinary people and urban scenes as his subjects. His work includes portraits of well-known personalities and images derived from press photographs. He is considered a prominent figure in the transition from Impressionism to Modernism.
Decades after his death, several authors and researchers theorised that Sickert might have been the London-based serial killerJack the Ripper, but the claim has largely been dismissed.
Training and early career
[edit]Sickert was born in Munich, Kingdom of Bavaria, on 31 May , the eldest son of Oswald Sickert, a Danish artist, and his English wife, Eleanor Louisa Henry, who was the illegitimate daughter of the astronomer Richard Sheepshanks.[1] In , following the German annexation of Schleswig-Holstein, the family settled in England,[2] where Oswald's work had been recommended by Freiherrin Rebecca vo