Dudley Hardy

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Dudley Hardy (born January 15, 1867 in Sheffield , England , † August 11, 1922 in London ) was a British painter and illustrator . He gained importance in art history primarily through posters that he designed since the 1890s and that transition from Art Nouveau to Classical Modernism .

Life

Advertising poster for Sunlight Soap , 1909

Hardy was the eldest son of the English marine painter Thomas Bush Hardy (1842-1897), under whose guidance he received his first artistic lessons in London. At a young age, his father sent him to Düsseldorf for further training . From 1880 to 1882 he attended elementary classes at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . There were Hugo Crola and Heinrich Lauenstein his teachers. He studied for two more years in Paris under Raphaël Collin and at the Antwerp Art Academy under Charles Verlat . Then he returned to London, where he settled down as a painter and from 1886 worked for London newspapers and magazines.

The Yeomen of the Guard , poster for a performance by the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company at the Savoy Theater, 1897

In 1885 he began to take part in exhibitions at the Royal Academy of Arts . His genre painting Sans Asile , created in 1889 and showing homeless people in Trafalgar Square , he presented in the Salon de Paris , and in 1893 in an exhibition of the Royal Society of British Artists , which he had joined in 1889. The genre painting Dock Strike , created in 1889 and depicting the London harbor strike of 1889, also profiled him as an artist interested in social issues . As a portrait painter , he created portraits of the actress Sarah Bernhardt . As a landscape painter, he was interested in the Middle East, North Africa and Brittany . Hardy illustrated war scenes of the Mahdi uprising for London newspapers without having been there himself. Influenced by French poster art, such as Jules Chéret and Adolphe Willette , he created a series of posters for the Gaiety Theater in London's West End in the 1890s , followed by other posters for the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company and the Savoy Theater . He also designed advertising posters for consumer products. Because he simplified letters, figures and objects to a surface graphic , he is considered a pioneer of modern advertising graphics and visual communication . Around 1900 he drew a number of comical postcard motifs. In 1897 he became a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Color . Together with his friend George Charles Haité (1855-1924) and other artists, he founded the London Sketch Club on April 1, 1898 . He served this club as chairman in 1902/1903.

literature

  • Algernon Graves: The Royal Academy of Arts. A complete dictionary of contributors and their work, from its foundation in 1769 to 1904 . Henry Graves, London 1905 (Reprint 1970), Volume 2, p. 385.
  • Emmanuel Bénézit : Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays . Gründ, Paris 1976, Volume 5, p. 403.

Web links

Commons : Dudley Hardy  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. nos. 4839–4841 in the finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Düsseldorf Art Academy , website in the archive.nrw.de portal ( North Rhine-Westphalia State Archive )
  2. ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 431
  3. ↑ Great Drawings and Illustrations from Punch, 1841–1901 . Dover Publications Inc., London 1981, p. 48 ( Google Books )
personal data
SURNAME Hardy, Dudley
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British painter and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Sheffield , England
DATE OF DEATH August 11, 1922
Place of death London