Christopher Le Brun

Christopher Le Brun 2015

Christopher Le Brun (born December 20, 1951 in Portsmouth , United Kingdom ) is a British visual artist who is best known as a painter.

Le Brun received his education from 1970 to 1974 at the Slade School of Fine Art and from 1974 to 1975 at the Chelsea School of Art . From 1976 to 1983 he was a lecturer at the art schools in Brighton, Slade and Wimbledon. Le Brun's representational style of painting is reminiscent of works of symbolism such as B. Arnold Böcklin and Gustave Moreau . Since 1990 Le Brun has also been intensively involved with the art of etching . In 2011 he was elected President of the Royal Academy of Arts .

Honors and prizes

• John Moore's Painting Prize 1978 and 1980
• Calouste Gulbenkian Printmakers Award 1983
• DAAD scholarship 1987–88
• University of the Arts Fellowship 2011
• President of the Royal Academy of Arts 2011

literature

• Shakespeare's Ovid , illustrator Christopher Le Brun, London, 1995
• Christopher Le Brun: Paintings 1984–85 (exhibition catalog, Edinburgh, Fruitmarket Gal., 1985)
• Christopher Le Brun: Etchings 1992–1994 (exhibition catalog, London, Marlborough Graph., 1994)
• Recent Work: Christopher Le Brun (exhibition catalog, London, Marlborough FA, 1998)
• Christopher Le Brun (exhibition catalog, Oslo, Gal. Christian Dam, 2000)
• Christopher Le Brun: Painting and Sculpture , London, 2001.

Web links

Commons : Christopher Le Brun  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Christopher Le Brun PRA born 1951 - Artist biography , accessed on October 30, 2016.