Alexander Mann (painter)
Alexander Mann (born January 22, 1853 in Glasgow ; † January 26, 1908 in London ) was a Scottish late Impressionist painter and an important representative of the Glasgow Boys , an artist group from the 19th and early 20th centuries. He mainly operated landscape painting and genre painting .
Life
Alexander Mann was the second son of James Mann, a wealthy trader and art collector. In his youth he took painting lessons from James Robert Greenlees . He later studied at the Glasgow School of Art , where Greenlees was director. In 1877 Mann went to Paris and attended the Académie Julian . He was later a student of Mihály Munkácsy and between 1881 and 1885 of Emile Auguste Carolus-Duran . During this time he was significantly influenced by Jules Bastien-Lepage and the Hague School . Mann maintained contact with Paris throughout his career and exhibited repeatedly at the Salon de Paris .
Mann spent time in Venice in the early 1880s . There he created the painting A Bead Stringer, Venice , which received recognition at the Paris Salon of 1885. The subsequent exhibition at the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts , however, led to public controversy. After these clashes moved man in the county of Berkshire to West Hagbourne and later to Blewbury. During these years he painted frequently in the Downs and Suffolk . He also had a studio in Chelsea , where he was a neighbor of James McNeill Whistler . He has exhibited at the Fine Art Society , the Royal Academy of Arts , the Royal Institute of Oil Painters , the New English Art Club and the Royal Society of British Artists .
In 1886 Mann was elected the first Scottish member of the New English Art Club. He was friends with John Lavery , Norman Garstin and Thomas Millie Dow of the Glasgow Boys . Mann traveled extensively in Great Britain painting, including landscapes and genre scenes from the Angus and Fife area . Further trips, of which he also made numerous paintings, took him to France , Italy and Spain . At that time he was living in Kings Holme, Hagbourne, near Didcot in Oxfordshire . From 1890 to 1892 he lived with his family in Tangier . After that he settled back in London. In 1893 he became a member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters. In 1995 his work was shown in London at the Barbican Center and in Dublin at the Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane .
literature
- Christopher Newall: Alexander Mann, 1853–1908 , Fine Art Society, London 1983.
- Helen Pickthorn: Alexander Mann , Grove Dictionary of Art 2003.
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| SURNAME | Man, Alexander |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Scottish late impressionism painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 22, 1853 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Glasgow |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 26, 1908 |
| Place of death | London |