Vanessa Bell
Vanessa Bell (born May 28, 1879 in London as Vanessa Stephen ; † April 7, 1961 Charleston Farmhouse , Sussex ) was an English painter and interior designer . She belonged to the Bloomsbury Group .
Life
Vanessa Stephen was the daughter of Leslie Stephen and his second wife Julia Prinsep Jackson. She was the older sister of the better-known writer Virginia Woolf . After the death of their parents, the sisters lived in the London district Bloomsbury , where they met those who later belonged to her famous friends. She studied at the art school of the portrait painter Arthur Stockdale Cope and at the art school of the Royal Academy .
In 1907 she married Clive Bell , with whom she had two sons - Quentin and Julian Bell - but they had drifted apart before the First World War and Vanessa Bell moved in with the gay painter Duncan Grant and his boyfriend at the time, David Garnett , and remained her husband but always on friendly terms. With Grant, Bell had a daughter, Angelica Bell , in 1918 , who later married David Garnett.
Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant lived and worked closely together at their Charleston , Sussex home. Both contributed to the Omega workshops founded by Roger Fry in 1913 and, in addition to painting, dealt with various design directions. They shared a house until Vanessa Bell's death in 1961, but that did not prevent either of them from having other relationships.
Vanessa Bell is buried next to Duncan Grant and their daughter Angelica on the north wall of St Peter's Church cemetery in Firle, Lewes District .
reception
In the film Carrington (1995) Vanessa Bell is from Janet McTeer represented in The Hours (2002) by Miranda Richardson . Priya Parma's novel Vanessa and her Sister (2014) takes up the time between 1905 and 1912 in the form of a diary that Vanessa Bell herself never wrote.
literature
- Louise DeSalvo: Virginia Woolf. Munich 1990, ISBN 3-88897-149-7 , pp. 85-116.
- Priya Parmar: Vanessa and Her Sister: A Novel . Ballantine Books, New York 2014, ISBN 978-0-8041-7637-8
- Frances Spalding: Vanessa Bell. A biography. Nostrum, Mülheim an der Ruhr 2016, ISBN 978-3-9816465-3-5
Web links
- Literature by and about Vanessa Bell in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Vanessa Bell in the German Digital Library
- Search for Vanessa Bell in the SPK digital portal of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
- Vanessa Bell. In: FemBio. Women's biography research (with references and citations).
- Vanessa Bell at artfacts.net
- Official website of Charleston Farmhouse with information also about Vanessa Bell
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bell, Vanessa |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Stephen, Vanessa (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British painter and interior designer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 28, 1879 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 7, 1961 |
| Place of death | Charleston Farmhouse , Sussex, England |