The London Group
The London Group or shortly also London Group is a British group of artists from London , which was founded in the 1913th It represented an avant-garde opposition to the conservative Royal Academy . The association is still active today.
history
The group was founded in November 1913 by members of the Camden Town Group and a few other avant-gardists. The founding fathers include David Bomberg , Henri Gaudier-Brzeska , Jacob Epstein , Charles Ginner , Spencer Gore , Percy Wyndham Lewis , John Nash , Christopher Nevinson and Edward Wadsworth . Harold Gilman became the first President of the London Group. Due to the First World War, numerous followers died, including Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and Spencer Gore, while others left the association: Edward Wadsworth, Percy Wyndham Lewis and Jacob Epstein.
The first exhibition took place under the name of the Camden Town Group between the years 1913/1914 in Brighton . It was not until 1914 that the group appeared independently in a show under the title " The London Group - An Exhibition of the Work of English Post-Impressionists, Cubists and Others ". Until 1930 exhibitions took place every six months, then only annually. In the later 1910s, Bloomsbury Group's art gained influence within the London Group with the addition of artists Roger Fry , Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant . Other notable artists who joined the London Group in the 1920s included Frank Dobson , Mark Gertler and Matthew Smith .
From 1930, sculpture began to take on a more important role in the group, due to the entry of important sculptors such as Henry Moore , Barbara Hepworth , Maurice Lambert and John Skeaping . Although the London Group was rather avant-garde, it also provided an important forum for realists from the Euston Road School towards the end of the 1930s .
In 1964 the Tate Gallery hosted an anniversary exhibition entitled " London group: 1914-1964 jubilee exhibition. Fifty years of British art ". In 1973 the London Group held an exhibition at the Whitechapel Art Gallery .
style
The predominant variety of styles was characteristic of the group. In this way, a wide variety of, sometimes conflicting, conceptions of art can be identified, such as Cubism , Vorticism , but also Post-Impressionism . Despite all this, the group was united by a common "rebellion" against the conservative stance of the Royal Academy.
President
| President (in brackets the year of joining the London Group) | Term of office |
|---|---|
| Harold Gilman (founding member 1913) | 1914-1918 |
| Robert Bevan (founding member 1913, treasurer until 1919) | 1918–1921 (Caretaker President) |
| Bernard Adeney (1913) | 1921–1923 (founding member 1913) |
| Frank Dobson (1922) | 1924-1926 |
| Rupert Lee (1922) | 1926-1936 |
| HS Williamson (Harold Sandys) (1933) | 1937–1943 (chairman) |
| Elliott Seabrooke (1920) | Probably towards the end of World War II , 1943–1948 |
| Ruskin Spear (1940-43) | 1948-1951 |
| John Dodgson (1947) | 1951-1952 |
| Claude Rogers (1938) | 1952-1966 |
| Andrew Forge (1960) | 1966-1971 |
| Dorothy Mead (1960) | 1971-1973 |
| Neville Boden (1964) | 1973-1977 |
| Peter Donnelly (1973) | 1977-1979 |
| Stan Smith (1975) | 1979–1993 (1979–81 period of reorganization, evidence unclear) |
| Dennis Creffield (1962) | 1983 (for 24 hours) |
| Adrian Bartlett (1981) | 1993-1995 |
| Philippa Beale (1977) | 1995-1998 |
| Matthew Kolakowski (1990) | 1998-2000 |
| Peter Clossick (1999) | 2000-2005 |
| Philip Crozier (2001) | 2005-2007 |
| Susan Haire (2004) | 2007 - today |
literature
- Denys J. Wilcox: The London Group 1913-1939 The artists and their works. Scolar Press, Aldershot 1995, ISBN 1-85928-048-X .