Fitzroy Street Group

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The Fitzroy Street Group was a post-impressionist artist group founded by the British painter Walter Sickert .

The group arose after Sickert's return from Paris to London in 1907 and wanted to emulate the concept of the French Salon d'Automne . Sickert started out with weekly exhibitions in his studio at 8 Fitzroy Street and a few months later rented a floor and storage space at 19. There, under the motto “Mr. Sickert at home ”exhibitions of the group take place every Saturday.

Founding members of the Fitzroy Street Group were Sickert William and Albert Rothenstein , Walter Westley Russell , Harold Gilman and Spencer Gore . Later Charles Ginner and others joined them. The group saw itself as an avant-garde and wanted to patronize the work of young artists, although several members also belonged to the New English Art Club and could be counted as part of the establishment. In 1911, Sickert created the more exclusive Camden Town Group as the successor to the Fitzroy Street Group.

literature

  • JB Bullen: Post-impressionists in England . Routledge, 1988, p. 10.
  • Wendy Baron, Walter Sickert: Sickert: paintings and drawings . Yale University Press, 2006, p. 69.

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