Frank Brangwyn

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Frank Brangwyn around 1900
Frank Brangwyn (1889): Stormy Seas

Sir Frank William Brangwyn (born May 12, 1867 in Bruges , † June 11, 1956 in Ditchling , East Sussex ) was a Welsh painter , printmaker , illustrator and designer . Clifford Musgrave estimated Brangwyn's work to be over 12 in 1952 000 copies - including around 1000 oil paintings, 400 etchings and woodcuts as well as 280 lithographs.

Life

The British designer and decorator William Curtis Brangwyn (1837-1907) lived with his wife Eleanor Griffiths in Bruges from 1865 to 1872 , where he restored the Holy Blood Basilica , among other things . The son Frank was born in Bruges. Frank had four siblings - Ellen, Philip Cuthbert, and Lawrence. In 1872 the family returned to England. There Frank attended Westminster City School in London- Westminster and took drawing lessons at the South Kensington Museum . There, supported by the designer Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo (1851–1942), he came to William Morris as a glazier apprentice and made wallpaper and embroidery on it.

In 1884 Frank Brangwyn was able to sell one of his paintings to a shipowner at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition , whereupon he joined the Royal Naval Reserve and painted seascapes. In 1890 he was allowed to travel to Constantinople as a painter on a freighter owned by that shipowner . He created the paintings Burial at Sea - awarded a prize at the Paris Salon in 1891 - and The Golden Horn, Constantinople . Attracted by the light of southern countries, he turned to orientalism ; visited South Africa, Zanzibar, Spain, Egypt, again Turkey and Morocco. In 1895 the French government bought his painting market in Morocco . In 1895 he redesigned the facade of Siegfried Bing's Parisian gallery L'Art Nouveau . In 1896 he illustrated Edward William Lane's translation of the Arabian Nights into English in a new six-volume edition. In 1908 he decorated the entire apse of St. Aidan's Church in Leeds with a glass mosaic depicting the life of St. Aidan of Lindisfarne . He created murals for the London Dyer's Guild (1901–1909), the Royal Exchange in London (1906), the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco (1915), the Manitoba Legislative Building in Winnipeg (1918–1921), for a chapel in Christ's Hospital in Horsham (1912-1923), for the Missouri State Capitol in Jefferson City (1915-1925) and a bezel for the courthouse of Cuyahoga County in Cleveland (1911-1915). In 1917 he created a series of woodcuts together with the Japanese graphic artist Urushibara Mokuchu (1888–1953).

From 1930 to 1934 he painted the hall of the RCA Building in New York together with Diego Rivera and Josep Maria Sert . He designed the painting of the first-class dining room of the Canadian ocean liner RMS Empress of Britain (1930-1931). The Dunedin Public Art Gallery and the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa have large canvas prints.

Although Brangwyn created 80 posters during the First World War - for example for the fighting at Dixmuide - he is not considered a war painter . Most of his creations were donated to humanitarian aid organizations. In the Swansea Concert Hall , named after the artist, there are other testimonies - paintings that document Frank Brangwyn's engagement with the First World War.

In the 1930s he donated a number of his works to the British Museum , the William Morris Gallery in the London Borough of Waltham Forest and the National Museum Wales .

Internationally recognized as an artist for a long time, it was not easy for the British art critics to classify Frank Brangwyn's wide-ranging work.

family

After a liaison between Frank Brangwyn and Ellen Kate Chesterfield, James Barron Chesterfield-Brangwyn was born in Mevagissey in 1885 . In 1896 Frank Brangwyn married the nurse Lucy Ray. The marriage remained childless. Lucy died in 1924.

Honors, offices and memberships

literature

Web links

Commons : Frank Brangwyn  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Burial at Sea in the Athenaeum
  2. ^ The Golden Horn, Constantinople in the artnet
personal data
SURNAME Brangwyn, Frank
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brangwyn, Frank William (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Welsh painter, printmaker, illustrator and designer
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Bruges
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 1956
Place of death Ditchling , East Sussex