Matthew Spender
Matthew Spender (born 1945 in London ) is a British painter, sculptor and biographer.
Life
Matthew Spender is a son of the poet Stephen Spender (1909–1995) and the pianist Natasha Spender (1919–2010). His mother kept up the facade of a normal family throughout her life, although Stephen Spender did not hide his homosexual relationships in public.
Matthew Spender studied history at Oxford University and then art at the Slade School of Fine Art . In 1967 he married the painter Maro Gorky, the eldest daughter of the Armenian-American surrealist artist Arshile Gorky (1904–1948), with whom he had been friends since 1961. The couple moved in 1968 as dropouts in the Tuscany to Gaiole in Chianti , they have two daughters.
Donor exhibited in England, Italy, Germany and France. In 1989 he had an exhibition at Berkeley Square Gallery in London. With the protection of his father he was able to sell an object to Francis Bacon , he avoided the homosexual stalking of his father's friends. Since the nineties he has concentrated on sculpture, which was staffage in Bernardo Bertolucci's 1996 film Feeling and Seduction . Spender teaches at the painting class of the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno in Florence and is an honorary professor at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Carrara .
In 1999, Spender wrote a biography of Gorky's life before his eviction from Khorkom From a High Place: A Life of Arshile Gorky . After his mother's death in 2010, he moved back into his parents' house in Bayswater and began to work up his family history.
Fonts / catalogs (selection)
- A House in St John's Wood: in Search of My Parents . William Collins, 2015
- Dino Carlesi: Matthew Spender: uno scultore a Pontedera . Massarosa: Edizioni Caleidoscopio, 2006
- From a high place. A Life of Arshile Gorky . Alfred A. Knopf Inc., 1999, ISBN 0-375-40378-7
- Mario Guidotti: Personale di scultura di Matthew Spender . Text by Bernardo Bertolucci . Comune di San Quirico d'Orcia, 1996
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Within Tuscany . New York: Viking, 1992
- Cypress trees in the vineyard . Translation by Ulrike Budde. Munich: Knesebeck 1993
literature
- John Sutherland : Poetic license , review, in: Financial Times , August 22, 2015, p. 5
- PE Antognoli: Matthew Spender. Del passato e del presente . Carrara: Edizioni Caleidoscopio, 2008
- John Sutherland : Stephen Spender: A Literary Life . London: Penguin, 2004
- Andrew Solomon : His Life Was a Forgery , review by Matthew Spender: From a High Place. A Life of Arshile Gorky , in: New York Times , July 11, 1999
Web links
- Literature by and about Matthew Spender in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Matthew Spender in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Matthew Spender in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Hannah Ellis-Petersen: Matthew Spender: 'Sorry, Dad, I'm not like you. I'm straight ' , Interview, in: The Guardian , November 8, 2015
- Valentina Lusini, Pietro Meloni: Matthew Spender e Maro Gorky , at Ecomuseo Chianti
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Enrico Perrotto: Matthew Spender. Biografia ( Memento of the original from December 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Biography at Fondazione Peano (it)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Donor, Matthew |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British painter, sculptor and biographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |