Christopher Nevinson

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A Dawn (1914)
In the Air (1917)

Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson (born August 13, 1889 in London ; died October 7, 1946 ) was an English Vorticist painter .

Pre-war period

His father was the radical journalist Henry Nevinson and his mother Margaret Nevinson was a women's rights activist.

It is classified as vorticism, but perhaps it is best classified as futurism . He attended the Slade School of Art , where he met Stanley Spencer and Mark Gertler .

After leaving the Slade School of Art , he worked as a journalist and artist in Paris and became an important exponent of the French avant-garde. In 1911 he discovered Cubism , which had a lasting influence on his work.

First World War

When the First World War broke out, he volunteered at the Red Cross in order to evade service with the gun. In 1914 he was sent to France where he worked as a driver and paramedic. He later joined the Royal Army Medical Corps and was assigned to the Third General Hospital in London. In January 1916 he was dismissed from the army as an invalid because of rheumatic fever.

During convalescence he painted pictures based on his experience in France. An exhibition in September 1916 drew the attention of the War Propaganda Bureau to him, which in 1917 sent him to the Western Front as an official war painter, where he painted around sixty pictures. The content of some works was considered so unacceptable that they were not exhibited after the war ended.

Between the wars and the Second World War

After the war he mainly painted cityscapes and genre pictures. In 1937 he published his autobiography Paint and Prejudice . During the Second World War he became a war painter again, but in 1942 he had a severe stroke. He died in 1946.

Works

  • Machine gun
  • Path of Glory
  • The Harvest of the Battle
  • A Group of Soldiers
  • Troops Resting
  • The Road from Arras to Bapaume
  • A pigeon

Web links

Commons : Christopher Nevinson  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The small encyclopedia , Encyclios-Verlag, Zurich, 1950, volume 2, page 246
personal data
SURNAME Nevinson, Christopher
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nevinson, Christopher Richard Wynne (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English Vorticist painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH October 7, 1946