Iris tree

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Amedeo Modigliani : Iris Tree, around 1916

Iris Tree (born January 27, 1897 in London , † April 13, 1968 in London ) was a British poet , painter and actress .

Life

Iris Tree was the second daughter of three children of the actor couple Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1853-1917) and his wife Helen Maud Holt (1858-1937). Her older sister Viola Tree (1884-1938) also became an actress.

She attended several private schools in England and France . In Paris she met Nancy Cunard and soon belonged to the Corrupt Coterie . The group included Lady Diana Cooper , Osbert Sitwell and Raymond Asquith - they spent the evenings discussing politics and poetry in Parisian cafés. On her return to England, Tree studied at the Slade School of Fine Art in London. To finance her studies, she got several artists model , including Augustus John , Duncan Grant , Vanessa Bell and Roger Fry and the sculptor Jacob Epstein .

Iris Tree has been married twice. In her first marriage she married in December 1916 in New York avant-garde - photographer Curtis Moffat (1887-1949). The marriage resulted in a son, Ivan Moffat (1918–2002). In her second marriage, she married the Austrian film actor Friedrich von Ledebur (1900–1986 actually Friedrich, Count von Ledebur-Wicheln ) in New York City , who embodied the South Sea islander Queequeg in Moby Dick . The joint connection also resulted in a son, Christian Dion (* 1928).

Primary literature

  • 1920 poems
  • 1927 The Traveler and other Poems

Secondary literature

Web links

Remarks

  1. ^ Herbert Beerbohm Tree
  2. ↑ Iris Tree marries Curtis Moffat
  3. ↑ Biography Curtis Moffat ( Memento of the original from March 24, 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.vam.ac.uk
personal data
SURNAME Tree, iris
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Iris Moffat; Iris, Countess of Ledebur-Wicheln
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British poet, painter and actress
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH April 13, 1968
Place of death London