Jack Butler Yeats
Jack Butler Yeats [ jeɪts ] (born August 29, 1871 in London , † March 28, 1957 in Dublin ) was an Irish artist and author. He was a son of the painter John Butler Yeats and the brother of the poet William Butler Yeats .
Life and work
Jack Butler Yeats grew up in County Sligo, Ireland from 1875 . He later studied at various art schools in London, including Frederick Brown and Alphonse Legros . In England he also worked as an illustrator for newspapers (e.g. the Manchester Guardian ), magazines (e.g. Punch ) and books (e.g. his brother William or von Synge ). In 1894 he published the first Sherlock Holmes - comic . In 1897 he settled in Devon , England . In the same year he exhibited his first paintings in London - landscapes in watercolors. It wasn't until 1906 that he began to paint with oil paints.
At the beginning of the 20th century, Yeats moved to the USA; In 1910 he returned to Ireland, first to Greystones , then to Dublin. In the late 1920s he became friends with Oskar Kokoschka . Since the 1930s he has also increasingly published novels and dramas that are dominated by the English-language modern age .
He died in Dublin and was buried in Mount Jerome Cemetery.
It is not uncommon for Jack Butler Yeats in Ireland to be referred to as the “National Painter” for his depictions of Irish people and landscapes. Later he also took on topics from Irish mythology . Irish mythology he used circus motifs again and again. Over time, his style developed from more conventional landscape painting towards Expressionism , from watercolors with simple lines and a limited color palette to oil paintings with thick, strong layers of paint. In 1953 he created the oil painting Eileen Aroon , which in 2010 belonged to the art collection of the Bank of Ireland .
Paintings by the artist are mainly in public collections in Dublin (National Gallery, Hugh Lane Gallery ), Cork (Municipal Gallery) and Sligo (Niland Gallery). Most of his extensive work is privately owned.
Works (selection)
Novels
- 1930: Sligo
- 1933: Sailing, Sailing Swiftly
- 1936: The Amaranthers
- 1938: The Charmed Life
- 1942: Ah, well. A Romance in Perpetuity
- 1944: And to You Also
- 1947: The Careless Flower
Dramas
- 1933: Apparitions
- 1943: La La Noo
literature
- Bruce Arnold: Jack Yeats . Yale 1998.
- Hilary Pyle: Jack B. Yeats . London 1970.
- Declan J. Foley: The only art of Jack B. Yeats: letters & essays . Lilliput Press, Dublin 2009, ISBN 978-1-84351-155-7
Web links
- Literature by and about Jack Butler Yeats in the catalog of the German National Library
- Yeats in the Electronic Irish Records dataset of the Princess Grace Irish Library (English)
- Punch illustrations by Jack Butler Yeats in HeidICON
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Yeats, Jack Butler |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Irish artist and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 29, 1871 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 28, 1957 |
| Place of death | Dublin |