Jacob Kramer
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Jacob Kramer (born December 26, 1892 in Klincy, Chernihiv Oblast , Russian Empire ; died February 4, 1962 in London ) was a British painter.
Life
Jacob Kramer's father had studied painting with Ilja Repin , his mother was a vocal artist. He had two sisters. The family moved to St. Petersburg . In order to escape the pogroms in Russia, the family emigrated to England in 1900, and the father found a poorly paid job as a photographer's assistant in the industrial city of Leeds . In 1902, Kramer fled the difficult family situation and went to sea for half a year. He studied evening classes from 1907 to 1912 at the Leeds School of Art and was involved in the artistically progressive Leeds Arts Club . In 1913 he received a scholarship from the Jewish community to attend the Slade School of Art , where he studied with Ambrose McEvoy . In 1914 he exhibited at the Whitechapel Gallery's exhibition Twentieth Century Art: A Review of Modern Movements .
He befriended Wyndham Lewis and was able to put graphics in BLAST magazine in 1915 without really identifying with Vorticism . His brother-in-law William Roberts, however, was more closely associated with Vorticism.
From 1916 he painted naturalistic portraits, as these sold better, including later portraits of Gandhi and Frederick Delius . In 1917 he was drafted as a soldier and deployed to the front in France. After the war he established himself as an artist in Leeds. He taught for many years at the Leeds School of Arts, which was later renamed after him. Jacob Epstein made a bust of him in 1921.
Since the 1940s, Kramer became addicted to alcoholism and impoverished. In 1960 the Leeds City Art Gallery showed a retrospective. Pictures of him are in the holdings of Tate Britain , the Victoria & Albert Museum and the National Portrait Gallery in London as well as in Leeds.
Kramer collected what was considered tribal art at the time , the collection of sculptures is located in the Kirkstall Museum in Leeds
literature
- Ann-Katrin Große: Kramer, Jacob . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 81, de Gruyter, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-023186-1 , p. 467 f.
- David Manson: Jacob Kramer: Creativity and Loss . Bristol: Sansom, 2006
- Monica Bohm-Duchen: Jacob Kramer , in: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , 2004
Web links
- Literature by and about Jacob Kramer in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Jacob Kramer , at Stern Pissarro Art
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sir Jacob Epstein: Jacob Kramer, 1921 , with Tate
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kramer, Jacob |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 26, 1892 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Klincy |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th February 1962 |
| Place of death | London |