Howard Hodgkin
Sir Gordon Howard Eliot Hodgkin , CH , CBE (born August 6, 1932 in Hammersmith , London , † March 9, 2017 in London) was a British painter.
Life
Hodgkin grew up in Dorset and attended Bryanston School in Dorset. He studied art at Camberwell Art School and later at the Bath Academy of Art in Corsham . After successfully completing his studies, he organized his first exhibition in London in 1962. His first early works tended to use clear, angular shapes in a limited number of colors. His works from the 1970s are considered "semi-abstract" and are often compared to Henri Matisse .
Hodgkin's pictures have names such as Dinner at West Hill (1966) or Goodbye to the Bay of Naples (1980–1982) and for the artist were among other things a memory of past moments with friends. Hodgkin has worked with him for the last 25 years Jack Shirreff and Alan Cristea together. Many of Hodgkin's paintings took years to complete.
In 1984 Hodgkin represented the United Kingdom as an artist at the Biennale di Venezia . In 1985, Hodgkin won the Turner Prize . In 1992, Hodgkin was knighted by Elizabeth II as a Knight Bachelor and in 2003 was named Companion of Honor . A major exhibition of his paintings took place in 2006 at the Tate Gallery of British Art . The British newspaper The Independent named him one of the 100 most significant LGBT people in the UK.
Hodgkin died in London in March 2017 at the age of 84.
Prizes and awards
- 1977: Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
- 1985: Turner Prize
- 1992: Knight Bachelor
- 2000: Doctor of Letters from Oxford University
- 2003: Companion of Honor (CH)
literature
- Susan Sontag : On Howard Hodgkin. (1995), German: About Howard Hodgkin. In: Howard Hodgkin. Düsseldorf / Ostfildern 1996, ISBN 3-930717-37-9 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Sir Howard Hodgkin: Turner winner and abstract artist dies at 84.BBC News , March 9, 2017, accessed March 10, 2017.
- ^ The Independent , (July 2, 2006), Gay Power: The pink list. Viewed June 25, 2007
- ↑ a b Nicholas Wroe: The color of emotion . In: The Guardian .
- ↑ New Year Honors - part 4 . In: The Guardian .
Web links
- Howard Hodgkin website
- Robert Hughes: Howard Hodgkin . From: Nothing If Not Critical . Penguin, 1982, ISBN 014016524X . On: Artchive (English).
- Edward Lucie: Howard Hodgkin b1932: Conversations With Artists. ( ram ) (No longer available online.) BBC Four , January 2, 1982, formerly original ; Retrieved on March 10, 2017 (English, the page itself is available, but the audion files are not.). ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )
- Howard Hodgkin - Exhibition at Tate Britain: 14 June - 10 September 2006 . (English)
- Howard Hodgkin at artfacts.net
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hodgkin, Howard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hodgkin, Gordon Howard Eliot (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 6, 1932 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hammersmith |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 9, 2017 |
| Place of death | London |