Edward Burne-Jones
Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, 1st Baronet ARA (born August 28, 1833 in Birmingham , † June 17, 1898 in London ) was a British painter and one of the leading representatives of the Pre-Raphaelites . He worked closely with William Morris in the field of book decoration and textile design and stained glass .
Life
Edward Burne-Jones attended high school, where he made his first caricatures of his teachers. In addition, at the age of 15 he attended the state school for design three evenings a week. From 1853 he studied theology at Exeter College , Oxford , where he made friends with William Morris and saw for the first time a work by the Pre-Raphaelites , John Everett Millais 's The Return of the Dove to the Ark . He did not complete his studies because, under the influence of Morris, after visiting the Louvre together , he decided to become an artist.
In 1856 he met John Ruskin and Dante Gabriel Rossetti . In the same year he got engaged to Georgiana MacDonald , a painter and wood cutter ; they married in 1860. In 1857 he made attempts at oil painting, occupied himself with glass painting and created his first significant drawings with pencil and ink. Initially his work was strongly influenced by Rossetti. But he benefited from George Frederic Watts , whom he met through Rossetti.
From 1860 there was a change to watercolors. The first results include the pictures Sidonia and Clara von Bork, inspired by the novel of the same name by the Pomeranian pastor and writer Johann Wilhelm Meinhold , which are exhibited today in the Tate Gallery , London .
Burne-Jones was a founding member of Morris, Marshall, Faulkner and Company in 1861 and became the primary stained glass designer for that company. He produced over 500 individual figures for different topics.
In 1866 he met Maria Zambaco , whose mother commissioned him to paint a portrait of her daughter. Burne-Jones chose "Cupid finding Psyche" for it. They began an extramarital relationship and he often painted them in his studio. In January 1869, his wife Georgina found a letter from Maria in his clothes, and Burne-Jones reluctantly ended the affair. But he couldn't get Maria out of his mind. He painted her again and again, sometimes as a witch, sorceress or seductress, e.g. B. "The Beguiling of Merlin". As so often, Burne-Jones made strong sexual passion, love, betrayal, repentance and forgiveness visible in his pictures by dressing them in legends and myths. In doing so, he strengthens the expressiveness of the story.
In 1867, Burne-Jones and his wife moved to Fulham, London . Burne-Jones did not exhibit for many years. His breakthrough came in 1877 when several of his oil paintings were shown in the Grosvenor Gallery . Subsequently, his works were also shown at the Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts .
For the Morris workshops in Merton Abbey , he designed tapestries with the cycle "The Search for the Holy Grail" from 1890–1895 and in 1891 he began with book illustrations for Morris Kelmscott Press . It took the two artists four years to produce “The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer”. Burne-Jones made 87 illustrations for William Hooper's wood engravings. Much of this work has been exhibited at the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society.
Through his wife, Burne-Jones was related to both the future Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and the writer Rudyard Kipling , both of whom were his nephews.
In 1885 he became president of the Birmingham Artists Association. In 1894 he was promoted to Baronet , of Rottingdean in the County of Sussex. Following the Paris World Exhibition in 1889, he was awarded the Cross of the Légion d'Honneur for his works.
He died of a weak heart on June 17, 1898. His ashes were buried in Rottingdean Church , Sussex, where he had a vacation home.
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In addition to painting, Burne-Jones dealt with handicrafts such as glass painting , ceramics , picture knitting and book decoration. His paintings and illustrations influenced French symbolism and Art Nouveau . Soon after his death, Burne-Jones' work fell into oblivion, as it contradicted the principles of classical modernism in its representational quality with its ornamental jewelry . It was not rediscovered until the 1970s. Today Burne-Jones is considered one of the most important British artists of the 19th century.
- Chronological Catalog of finished pictures - Appendix I. -Internet ArchiveIn: Malcolm Bell:Sir Edward Burne-Jones. A record and review. G. Bell & Son, London 1910 (first edition 1892)
- List of the Unfinished Pictures sold at Christie's July 16th and 18th 1898 - Appendix II. -Internet ArchiveIn: Malcolm Bell:Sir Edward Burne-Jones. A record and review. G. Bell & Son, London 1910 (first edition 1892)
- List of Cartoons for Stained Glass Windows - Appendix III. -Internet ArchiveIn: Malcolm Bell:Sir Edward Burne-Jones. A record and review. G. Bell & Son, London 1910 (first edition 1892)
gallery
The prince enters the forest of thorns, 1869, from the Sleeping Beauty cycle
Paintings (selection)
- Sidonia von Bork 1560, 1860, watercolor and body color, 33 × 17 cm, Tate Gallery , London
- Clara von Bork 1560, 1860, watercolor and body color, 34 × 18 cm, Tate Gallery , London
- Clerk Saunders, 1861, watercolor, 69 × 42 cm, Tate Gallery , London
- The Garden of the Hesperides, 1873, oil on canvas, 119 × 98 cm, Hamburger Kunsthalle
- Chant d'Amour, 1878, canvas, 112 × 153 cm
- The Wheel of Fortune, 1883, canvas, 151 × 72 cm Musée d'Orsay , Paris
- Pan's Garden, 1887, canvas, 152 × 186 cm
- The Mirror of Venus, 1877, canvas, 122 × 201 cm Museu Calouste Gulbenkian , Lisbon
- The story of Perseus, 1875–76, canvas, 152 × 127 cm
- The Golden Staircase, 1880, canvas, 227 × 117 cm, Tate Gallery , London
- The Mill, 1870–72, canvas, 91 × 198 cm
- The days of creation, 1877, watercolor, 119 × 102 cm
- The Depths of the Sea, 1886, canvas, 196 × 76 cm
- The Enchantment of Merlin, 1877, canvas
- The stamp of love, date unknown, oil on canvas, 213.4 × 92.7 cm
- The King's Wedding . 1870, gouache, 32 × 26 cm, Clemens-Sels-Museum , Neuss
- Works by Burne-Jones in the Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, USA. (No longer available online.) In: preraph.org. Delaware Art Museum , 2015, pp. 1-3 , archived from the original on April 30, 2015 .
literature
- Laurence Binyon : Burne-Jones, Sir Edward . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 5 : Brewer-Carlingen . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1911, p. 265–267 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
- Georgiana Burne-Jones: Memorials of Edward Burne-Jones . - Internet Archive The McMillan Company, London 1906 (new edition in two volumes in one volume; first edition 1904).
- Otto von Schleinitz: Burne-Jones - Internet Archive (= H. Knackfuß [Hrsg.]: Artist Monographs. Volume 55). Velhagen & Klasing, Bielefeld 1901.
- LT Meade: Sir Edward Burne-Jones - Internet Archive In: The Strand Magazine. No. 55, July 1895, pp. 16-26.
- The beginning of the world; Twenty-five pictures by Edward Burne Jones. - Internet Archive revision. Foreword by Georgina Burne-Jones. Longmans, Green & Co., London 1903.
- Edward Burne-Jones - Victorian Artist-Dreamer. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1999.
- Fiona MacCarthy: The last Pre-Raphaelite. Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian imagination. Faber, London 2011, ISBN 978-0-571-22861-4 .
- Judith Flanders: A Circle of Sisters. W. W. Norton & Co., New York 2005, ISBN 0-393-05210-9 .
- Karen Yuen: Fashioning Elite Identities: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward Burne-Jones, and Musical Instruments as Symbolic Goods . In: Music in Art: International Journal for Music Iconography . 39, No. 1-2, 2014, ISSN 1522-7464 , pp. 145-158.
Web links
- Literature by and about Edward Burne-Jones in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by Edward Burne-Jones at Zeno.org .
- Photograph of the Burne-Jones family
- Overview of life and work on victorianweb.org
- Images on the-athenaeum.org
- Christoph Becker : Edward Burne-Jones (1833–1898): "The Perseus Cycle, The Horror Head" ( Memento from June 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). In: staatsgalerie.de. State Gallery Stuttgart; accessed on September 23, 2017.
- Edward Burne-Jones: Das Irdische Paradies / The Earthly Paradise, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, October 24, 2009 to February 7, 2010 and Kunstmuseum Bern, March 19 to July 25, 2010
- Edward Burne-Jones in Stuttgart. How to turn chimneys into dragons. Fairytale: Study by Burne-Jones for “The Sleeping Court”, 1889 ( Memento from February 21, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ). In: faz.net, FAZ-Feuilleton; accessed on September 23, 2017 (in 16 images)
- Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde - Exhibition at the Tate Gallery from September 12, 2012–13. January 2013
- Pre-Raphelites and their models. In: Pinterest
Individual evidence
- ^ Edward Burne-Jones drawings at the Tate Gallery. In: tate.org.uk, accessed September 23, 2017.
- ↑ Burne-Jones' painting “The Beguiling of Merlin” in Lady Lever Art Gallery. In: liverpoolmuseums.org.uk, accessed September 23, 2017.
- ↑ The Beguiling of Merlin . - Image detail. In: liverpoolmuseums.org.uk; accessed on September 23, 2017.
- ^ Quest for the Holy Grail Tapestries in Birmingham Museums. In: preraphaelites.org; accessed on September 23, 2017.
predecessor | Office | successor |
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New title created | Baronet, of Rottingdean 1894-1898 |
Philip Burne-Jones |
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Burne-Jones, Edward |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Burne-Jones, Sir Edward Coley, 1st Baronet (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British painter and a representative of the Pre-Raphaelites |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 28, 1833 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Birmingham |
DATE OF DEATH | June 17, 1898 |
Place of death | London |