Lawrence Gowing

Sir Lawrence Burnett Gowing (born April 21, 1918 in Stoke Newington , London , † February 5, 1991 in London) was a British painter and art historian .

biography

After attending school, Lawrence Gowing studied painting at Euston Road School with William Coldstream . His best-known painting before World War II was “Mare Street, Hackney” from 1937. He used his painting style, which was influenced by Impressionism , in portraits in particular, such as in 1944 in the portrait "Mrs Roberts".

In 1948 he was appointed professor of fine arts at the University of Durham , where he worked until 1958. At the same time he was rector of the King Edward VII School of Art in Newcastle upon Tyne . In 1958 he was appointed principal of the Chelsea School of Art , whose director he remained until 1965. In 1967 Gowing was appointed professor of fine arts at the University of Leeds , where he taught until his appointment in 1975 as professor at the Slade School of Fine Art at University College London . After ten years there, he retired in 1985. In 1982 he was knighted as a Knight Bachelor , and in 1989 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Publications

During his teaching activity he published several art historical works such as:

• Renoir . 1947.
• Vermeer . 1952.
• John Constable . 1961.
• Goya . 1965.
• Matisse . 1979. New edition: Lichtenberg, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-7852-8406-3 .
• Lucian Freud . 1982.

He was also an associate editor of

• Germain Bazin , Horst Gerson , Lawrence Gowing and others a. (Ed.): Kindler's Malereilexikon . Volume 1-6. Kindler, Zurich 1964–1971.

literature

• Chambers Biographical Dictionary. 2002, ISBN 0-550-10051-2 , p. 627.

Web links

• Literature by and about Lawrence Gowing in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Knights and Dames at Leigh Rayment's Peerage