Norman Lindsay

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Norman Lindsay (1931)

Norman Alfred William Lindsay (born February 22, 1879 in Creswick , Victoria , † November 21, 1969 in Faulconbridge , New South Wales ) was an Australian sculptor, painter and writer with Anglo-Irish roots.

Live and act

Lindsay was the son of the doctor Robert Charles Lindsay (1843-1915) and his wife Jane Elizabeth Williams (1848-1932). His maternal grandfather was the preacher Thomas Williams, a follower of John Wesley (→ Methodist and Wesleyan Churches ). Lindsay had nine siblings, including Percy (1870–1952), Lionel (1874–1961), Ruby (1885–1919) and Daryl Lindsay (1889–1976).

At the age of 16, Lindsay went to Melbourne in 1895 and worked for various magazines and newspapers; he worked with his older brother Lionel. At the same time he was tutored by Walter Withers . In 1901, like his brother, he became a member of the editorial team of the “Sydney Bulletin” and remained so for almost fifty years. In addition to his drawings, an independent literary work was created over the years.

At the age of 21, Lindsay married Catherine Agathe Parkinson in Melbourne on May 23, 1900 and had three sons with her: Jack (1900–1990), Raymond (1903–1960) and Philip (1906–1958). After the end of the First World War , the couple divorced.

At that time, Lindsay had been working with Rose Soady for over fifteen years. In 1909 Lindsay traveled to London and stayed there for a long time. Soady followed him the following year and returned to Australia with him in 1911. On January 14, 1920, Lindsay married Rose Soady and had two daughters with her: Jane (1920–1999) and Helen (1922–?).

On November 21, 1969, Norman Lindsay died in his house in Faulconbridge and was buried in Springwood Cemetery in Springwood, New South Wales.

reception

Lindsay is considered one of Australia's most important artists. His work includes pencil drawings (sketches as well as independent drawings), etchings, oil paintings and watercolors. Sculptures in bronze or concrete are also an important part of his oeuvre. In the bread-and-butter profession of the early years, there was a focus on cartoons and caricatures, with which he addressed political topics such as red fear and yellow danger . His own books had an autobiographical background and he was able to illustrate other works congenially .

His former home and studio in Faulconbridge (New South Wales) became today's Norman Lindsay Gallery & Museum at the instigation of his daughter Helen . His circle of friends and acquaintances included writers and painters such as Hugh McCrae, Frank Frazetta , Roy Krenkel , Henry Lawson , Ernest Moffit, Kenneth Slessor and Francis Webb.

His pictures were controversial during the artist's lifetime, as his nudes were often viewed as pornographic. In 1940 Rose Soady brought many of Lindsay's paintings to the USA for an exhibition . When luggage was rescued after a railway accident, the pictures were confiscated and burned as pornography.

Honors

Works (selection)

Essays
  • Creative effort . 1924.
  • Hyperborea . 1928.
  • The scriblings of an idle mind . 1956.
Children's books
  • The magic pudding . 1918.
    • German: The magic pudding. The Adventures of the Bunyip Bluegum . Fischer-Taschenbuchverlag, Frankfurt / M. 1996, ISBN 3-596-80061-7 .
  • The flyaway highway . 1936.
Novels
  • A curate in Bohemia . 1913
  • Miracles by arrangement . 1932.
  • Pan in the Parlor . 1933.
  • Age of Consent . 1938.
  • Halfway to anywhere . 1947.

literature

Essays
  • Art in Australia / 3. Series , 1930, issue 12: special issue Norman Lindsay .
  • Jack Lindsay: A graeco-roman Australian utopia. For the centenary of Norman Lindsay (1879-1969) . In: Australian Journal of Art , Vol. 2 (1980), pp. 41-46, ISSN  0314-6464
  • Ursula Prunster: Norman Lindsay and the Australian renaissance . In: Anthony Bradley, Terry Smith (Eds.): Australian Art and Architecture. Essay presented to Bernard Smith . OUP, Melbourne 1980, pp. 161-176, ISBN 0-19-550588-3 .
Books
  • Lin Bloomfield (Ed.): The world of Norman Lindsay . Painters Press, Melbourne 1979, ISBN 0-333-29996-5 .
  • Lin Bloomfield: Norman Lindsay. Impulse to draw . Bay Books, Sydney 1984, ISBN 0-8583-5555-8 .
  • John Hetherington: Norman Lindsay. The embattled olympian (Australian writers and their world). OUP, Melbourne 1973, ISBN 0-19-550388-0 .
  • AD Hope: Siren and Satyr. The personal philosophy of Norman Lindsay . Sun Books, Melbourne 1976, ISBN 0-7251-0225-X .
  • Daryl Lindsay: The leafy tree. My family . Cheshire Edition, Melbourne 1965.
  • Jane Lindsay: Portrait of Pa. Norman Lindsay at Springwood . Angus & Robertson, Sydney 1974.
  • Rose Lindsay: Model wife. My life with Norman Lindsay . Smith Books, Sydney 1967.
  • Ursula Prunster (Ed.): The legendary Lindsays. Norman, Percy, Lionel, Ruby and Daryl Lindsay . Beagle Press, Sydney 1995, ISBN 0-947349-13-8 (catalog of the exhibition of the same name, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, January 6 to February 26, 1995)
  • Keith Wingrove: Norman Lindsay on art, life and literature . University Press, St. Lucia 1990, ISBN 0-7022-2227-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. For the US domestic market, the title was changed to Mr. Gresham and Olympus .

Web links

Commons : Norman Lindsay  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files