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Walter Richard Sickert BIOGRAPHY
1860 Munich, Germany - 1942 Bath, England. Known for: Genre and landscape painting, etching.
Walter Richard Sickert (31 May 1860 - 22 January 1942), born in Munich, Germany, was a painter who was a member of the Camden Town Group* in London. He was an important influence on distinctively... Read full biography
Walter Richard Sickert (31 May 1860 - 22 January 1942), born in Munich, Germany, was a painter who was a member of the Camden Town Group* in London. He was an important influence on distinctively British styles of avant-garde* art in the 20th century. Sickert was a cosmopolitan and eccentric who... Read full biography
Walter Richard Sickert (31 May 1860 - 22 January 1942), born in Munich, Germany, was a painter who was a member of the Camden Town Group* in London. He was an important influence on distinctively British styles of avant-garde* art in the 20th century. Sickert was a cosmopolitan and eccentric who often favoured ordinary people and urban scenes as his subjects. His oeuvre also included portraits of well-known personalities and images derived from press photographs. He is considered a prominent... Read full biography
Walter Richard Sickert (31 May 1860 - 22 January 1942), born in Munich, Germany, was a painter who was a member of the Camden Town Group* in London. He was an important influence on distinctively British styles of avant-garde* art in the 20th century. Sickert was a cosmopolitan and eccentric who often favoured ordinary people and urban scenes as his subjects. His oeuvre also included portraits of well-known personalities and images derived from press photographs. He is considered a prominent figure in the transition from Impressionism* to Modernism*. Sickert's father, Oswald Sickert, was a Danish-German artist, and his mother Eleanor Louisa Henry was the illegitimate daughter of the English astronomer Richard Sheepshanks. The family left... Read full biography
Walter Richard Sickert (31 May 1860 - 22 January 1942), born in Munich, Germany, was a painter who was a member of the Camden Town Group* in London. He was an important influence on distinctively British styles of avant-garde* art in the 20th century. Sickert was a cosmopolitan and eccentric who often favoured ordinary people and urban scenes as his subjects. His oeuvre also included portraits of well-known personalities and images derived from press photographs. He is considered a prominent figure in the transition from Impressionism* to Modernism*. Sickert's father, Oswald Sickert, was a Danish-German artist, and his mother Eleanor Louisa Henry was the illegitimate daughter of the English astronomer Richard Sheepshanks. The family left Munich to settle in England at the time of the Crystal Palace Exhibition in 1851, Oswald's work having been recommended by Frei... Read full biography
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Walter Richard Sickert (31 May 1860 - 22 January 1942), born in Munich, Germany, was a painter who was a member of the Camden Town Group* in London. He was an important influence on distinctively British styles of avant-garde* art in the 20th century.
Sickert was a cosmopolitan and eccentric who often favoured ordinary people and urban scenes as his subjects. His oeuvre also included portraits of well-known personalities and images derived from press photographs. He is considered a prominent figure in the transition from Impressionism* to Modernism*.
Sickert's father, Oswald Sickert, was a Danish-German artist, and his mother Eleanor Louisa Henry was the illegitimate daughter of the English astronomer Richard Sheepshanks....But wait, there's more...
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