Charles Allan Gilbert
Charles Allan Gilbert (born September 9, 1873 in Hartford , Connecticut , † April 20, 1929 in New York City ) was an American painter , printmaker and illustrator of Art Nouveau .
Life
Little is known about Charles Allan Gilbert's life. He was the youngest son of Charles Edwin Gilbert and Virginia Ewing Crane Gilbert and had two brothers: Albert Waldron Gilbert and Edwin Randolph Gilbert. Gilbert was bedridden as a child and began drawing and sketching to pass the time. At the age of 16 he took painting lessons from Charles Noel Flagg (1848-1916), the founder of the Art Students League in Connecticut. From 1892 to 1894 Gilbert studied at the Art Students League of New York , followed by the Académie Julian in Paris , where he was a student of Jules Laurens and Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant . After only a year he returned to New York to commercialize his art; he opened his own studio and began to work as a commercial artist and illustrator. From 1902 he made numerous contributions to Life Magazine , in which his most famous work, All is Vanity , was published. He sometimes enriched his satirical drawings with short, self-written sketches and polemical- ironic texts, which enjoyed great popularity in the humorous pamphlets , joke papers and satirical magazines of the time. In addition, he continued to pursue his free artistic ambitions and painted academic landscapes and figurative images of women, which, however, received less attention. During the First World War Gilbert boosted his reputation with camouflage paint schemes of military equipment and the design of advertising posters for war bonds .
Charles Allan Gilbert died as a wealthy man on April 20, 1929 at the age of 55 of pneumonia. A memorial service was held in his honor at Campbell's Funeral Church on Broadway. Gilbert was buried in his native Hartford, Connecticut.
All is vanity
All is Vanity ( "All is vanity" ), the morbid vanity -Bildnis a young woman in front of a dressing table, the one when looking at the skull shows, had already painted Gilbert with 18 years and was in 1902 Life Magazine published for the first time. The illustration is one of the most famous picture puzzles ; it has been reproduced and copied countless times and has been used to the present day. A well-known replication shows the cover of the 1993 album Retro Active by the English hard rock band Def Leppard .
The 26 West Eighth Street , in Gilbert's studio was located, was one of the early 20th century the most prestigious addresses of the emerging New York art and advertising world. The building housed the studios of other well-known illustrators such as Edwin Austin Abbey and Francis Davis Millet ; Millet was killed in the accident involving the RMS Titanic .
Works
- 1901: Woman Playing Piano
- 1910: Woman with Rose
Other well-known works by CA Gilbert include Whittington Family , Women of Fiction , The Honeymoon , A Portfolio of Heads , Cameo Heads , Collection of Heads in Color , Separate Drawings in Color , A Message from Mars and In Beauty's Realm .
Web links
- Charles Allan Gilbert at artnet.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gilbert, Charles Allan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American painter, printmaker, and illustrator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 9, 1873 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hartford, Connecticut |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 20, 1929 |
| Place of death | New York City |