Anita Brookner

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Anita Brookner CBE (born July 16, 1928 in London - † March 10, 2016 ) was a British writer and art historian with Polish roots.

Life

Anita Brookner's parents - Newson Bruckner and Maud Schiska - fled the pogroms in their native Poland and settled in London. They also changed their German-sounding name "Bruckner" to "Brookner".

School and study

Anita Brookner completed her school days at the privately run James Allen's Girls' School in Dulwich ( South London ). She then studied art history at King's College London , where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1949 . On the initiative of Anthony Blunt , she switched to the Courtauld Institute of Art at the University of London for her doctoral studies ( Ph.D. ), which she successfully completed in 1953. She then completed a three-year postgraduate course at the University of Paris .

Art historian and works of art history

From 1959 to 1964 Brookner worked first as a lecturer at the University of Reading , then at the Courtauld Institute of Art, where she specialized in French art of the 18th and 19th centuries . In 1967 she was the first woman to take up the Slade Professorship in Fine Arts at the University of Cambridge for a year . She was a Fellow of Murray Edwards College, Cambridge University, founded in 1954 as New Hall.

In addition to her time as a lecturer and professor, she wrote numerous biographical books on French painters such as Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres , Antoine Watteau , Jean-Baptiste Greuze and Jacques-Louis David , as well as a monograph on art criticism in the literary works of Denis Diderot , Stendhal , Charles Baudelaire , Émile Zola , Edmond and Jules de Goncourt and Joris-Karl Huysmans .

She also contributed to the television series 1000 Masterworks : She contributed to paintings by Paul Cézanne , Jacques-Louis David , Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres , Hyacinthe Rigaud , Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun . These texts were also printed in the books accompanying the series, are sporadically repeated on 3sat , ZDFkultur and Planet and are now available on DVD publications (see 1000 Masterworks # Literature ).

Writer and literary work

In the early 1980s, Anita Brookner began writing as a novelist. Her debut novel A Start in Life was published in 1981 . Her novel Hotel du Lac (1984) won the prestigious Booker Prize in 1984 and was shown as a television film with Anna Massey in 1986 . At the center of her novels, which appear almost every year, are mostly women who are disappointed in life; this earned Brookner the reputation of a "mistress of gloom". The 2001 novel The Bay of Angels is about a single woman who finds a new meaning to come to terms with her freedom when her widowed mother remarries and moves overseas. Her twenty-second novel The Rules of Engagement (2003) is a story about friendship and choice. Her last novel, Strangers , was published in 2009 .

Anita Brookner also published articles in the London Review of Books and shaped the work of New Zealand author Barbara Anderson through her work .

Anita Brookner lived in London.

Honors

Works

Non-fiction

Novels

  • A Start in Life, 1981 (US title: The Debut)
  • Providence, 1982.
  • Look at Me, 1983.
  • Hotel du Lac, 1984.
  • Family and Friends, 1985.
  • A. Misalliance, 1986.
    • The past is another country , German by Herbert Schlüter, Dtv, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-423-11594-7 .
  • A Friend from England, 1987.
    • Winter trip to Venice , German by Marion Zerbst, Zsolnay, Vienna 1989, ISBN 3-552-04120-6 .
  • Latecomers, 1988.
  • Lewis Percy, 1989.
  • Brief Lives, 1990.
  • A Closed Eye, 1991.
  • Fraud, 1992.
  • A Family Romance, 1993.
  • A Private View, 1994.
  • Incidents in the Rue Laugier, 1995.
  • Altered States, 1996.
  • Soundings, 1997.
  • Visitors, 1997.
  • Falling Slowly, 1998.
  • Undue Influence, 1999.
  • The Next Big Thing, 2002 (US title: Making Things Better)
  • The Rules of Engagement, 2003.
  • Leaving Home, 2005.
  • Strangers, 2009.
  • At The Hairdressers, 2011 (novella)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anita Brookner, Booker Prize-winning author, dies age 87, Times announces
  2. ↑ Gina Thomas: God's loneliest woman. On the death of the writer Anita Brookner . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, March 17, 2016, p. 15.
  3. ↑ Angela Schader: The Mistress of Darkness. The author Anita Brookner is dead . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, March 17, 2016, p. 40.
personal data
SURNAME Brookner, Anita
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British writer, art historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH London , England , UK
DATE OF DEATH March 10, 2016