Edward Atkinson Hornel
Edward Atkinson Hornel (* 11 July 1864 in Bacchus Marsh , Victoria , Australia ; † 30th June 1933 in Kirkcudbright , Dumfries and Galloway , Scotland ) was a Scottish painter of the late Impressionism and important representative of the Glasgow Boys , a group of artists from the 19th century. and early 20th century.
life and work
Edward Atkinson Hornel was born in Australia, where his Scottish parents immigrated. After his birth, they returned to their home in Kirkcudbright in Scotland, where Hornel spent childhood and youth. Hornel studied for three years at the Trustees' Academy , an art school in Edinburgh, and for two years with William Stewart MacGeorge at Charles Verlat in Antwerp .
In 1885 he returned to Scotland and met George Henry . Both joined the Glasgow Boys , an artist group that formed at the Glasgow School of Art in the 1870s and had a major impact on the art scene from 1890 to about 1910. Important members included William York MacGregor , Joseph Crawhall , James Guthrie , Edward Arthur Walton, and James Paterson . Hornel was closer to Thomas Corsan Morton .
Hornel and Henry shared a studio and worked together on folkloric paintings such as Druids Bringing in the Mistel , a polychrome priestly procession with gold. Hornel also dealt with texture effects, created by roughening, coloring and smoothing. In 1892 the Walker Art Gallery from Liverpool bought the painting Summer . It was the first painting by the Glagow Boys to be included in a public collection.
From 1893 to 1894 Hornel and Henry spent a year and a half in Japan, where Hornel learned a lot about decorative design. He was very impressed by this trip and created a number of Japanese-inspired images in the Glasgow style. Elizabeth MacNicol , an important representative of the Glasgow Girls , portrayed him seated in front of one of his Japanese paintings in 1896.
At the end of the 19th century, Hornel refined his use of colors and gave his pictures more atmosphere. In style, his works became more naturalistic and poetic. Hornel had great commercial success with his mosaic-like depictions of children in the Galloway countryside, for which he is still known today. The Captive Butterfly , a typical painting of this creative period, is also owned by the Walker Art Gallery from Liverpool. Hornel's early powerful works in Glasgow style, however, are almost forgotten.
In 1901 Hornel was supposed to be accepted into the Royal Scottish Academy , but he refused the election. In the same year, due to his increased income, he was able to buy Broughton House , a large town house with a garden in Kirkcudbright, which he lived with his sister Elizabeth until the end of his life. John Keppie, a modern architect from the Glasgow School , designed a studio for Hornel's home. The garden was designed in the Japanese style. The house and garden are now managed by the National Trust for Scotland .
In 1907 he traveled to Ceylon and Australia . In 1919 he began collecting books of all kinds on the Dumfries and Galloway area. His library, which is still in Broughton House today, contains 15,000 volumes. In 1922 he traveled to Burma and Japan . Hornel died in 1933 at the age of 68.
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/picture-of-month/displaypicture.asp?venue=2&id=2
- ↑ http://dl.lib.brown.edu/mjp/images/Hornel/Hornel.htm
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from January 11, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
literature
- Bill Smith: The Life & Work of Edward Atkinson Hornel , Atelier Books / The Fine Art Society 1997, ISBN 978-1873830147 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hornel, Edward Atkinson |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hornel, EA |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Scottish painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 11, 1864 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bacchus Marsh , Victoria , Australia |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 30, 1933 |
| Place of death | Kirkcudbright , Dumfries and Galloway , Scotland |