Laura Cumming

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Laura Cumming (born 1961 ) is a British journalist and art critic.

Life

Laura Cumming is the daughter of the artist couple James Cumming (1922–1991) and Betty Elston. She worked as a literary critic on the BBC's The Listener , wrote for the New Statesman and Literary Review and worked as a presenter in the night program Night Waves of BBC Radio 3 . She has been an art critic for The Observer newspaper since 1999 .

Cumming's first book is about the artistic self-portrait . In her second book she goes the fate of the London antiquarian John Snare (1811-1883 - approximate data) to the 1,845 tracked a portrait paintings and auctioned, located in a row as the portrait of the later English King Charles I of Diego Velázquez turned out . The picture was shown in 1885 by Snare's son in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; it was then lost. For the biography, Cummings received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography in 2017 .

Fonts

  • A face to the world: on self-portraits . Hammersmith: HarperPress, 2009
  • The vanishing Velázquez: a 19th-Century bookseller's obsession with a lost masterpiece . New York: Scribner, 2016 (The vanishing man)
    • The missing Velázquez: an obsessed collector, a lost painting and the greatest painter of all time . Translation Tobias Schnettler. Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer, 2017

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ James Cumming , at Royal Scottish Academy
personal data
SURNAME Cumming, Laura
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British journalist, art critic and biographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1961