Jacob Epstein

Jacob Epstein
Jacob Epstein, Fotograf Carl van Vechten, 28. Mai 1934
„Day and Night“
Bronzestatue des Heiligen Michael in Coventry

Sir Jacob Epstein (* 10. November 1880 in New York; † 19. August 1959 in London) war ein amerikanisch-britischer Bildhauer und Zeichner.

Er wurde als Sohn jüdischer russisch-polnischer Eltern in New York geboren. Nach seinem Studium an der All Students League in New York von 1894 bis 1902 und an der Académie Julian und der École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris, lebte er ab 1905 in England und nahm 1910 die britische Staatsbürgerschaft an. 1954 bekam er den Rittertitel.

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Werksauswahl

  • 1907/08: Ages of Man [1] - London, The Strand, 18 Fassadenskulpturen für das Gebäude der British Medical Association, beschädigt/zerstört
  • 1911: Grabmal für Oscar Wilde, Paris, Père-Lachaise Friedhof
  • 1913: Flenite Relief, Leeds, Henry Moore Institute [2]
  • 1913/14: The Rock Drill [3],
  • 1917: Venus, Marmor, Connecticut, New Haven Yale University Yale Center for British Art
  • 1919: Risen Christ, Bronze, England, Wheathampstead
  • 1923: W. H. Hudson Memorial, Rima [4], London, Hyde Park
  • 1928/29: Day and Night, London, Verwaltungsgebäude „55 Broadway“ der London Underground über der Station St. James’s Park
  • 1929: Genesis, Marmor, England, Manchester, Whitworth Gallery
  • ab 1934 Ecce Homo, Subiaco Marmor, England, Coventry Cathedral
  • 1936: Consummatum Est(It Is Finished), Alabaster, Edinburgh, National Galleries of Scotland
  • 1939: Adam, Alabaster, England, Leeds, Harewood House
  • 1940: Jacob and the Angel [5], the Tate Gallery Collection
  • 1947: Lazarus, Oxford, New College
  • 1950: Madonna and Child [6], London, Convent of the Holy Child Jesus
  • 1954: Social Consciousness [7], Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art
  • 1958: St Michael's Victory over the Devil, Bronze, Birmingham, Coventry Cathedral
  • 1959: Rush of Green [8], London, Hyde Park

Jacob Epstein schuf zahlreiche Porträtbüsten, darunter jene der nachstehenden Persönlichkeiten (Auswahl):

Autobiografie

  • 1940 – „Let There Be Sculpture“

Literatur

  • Richard Cork: „Jacob Epstein“London 1999
  • June Rose: „Demons and Angels: A Life of Jacob Epstein“, London 2002
  • Evelyn Silber:The Sculpture of Jacob Epstein. With A Complete Catalogue, Oxford 1986
  • Jane F. Babson: The Epsteins: A Family Album, London 1984
  • Terry Friedman: Epstein's Rima. 'The Hyde Park Atrocity'. Creation and Controversy, Leeds City Art Gallery 1988
  • Stephen Gardiner: Epstein: Artist Against The Establishment, London 1992
  • Raquel Gilboa: Epstein and Adam Revisited. For Those Who 'Knew Not Joseph', Burlington Art Journal, Vol.5, No.3, 2004, p.72-79
  • Raquel Gilboa: Walt Whitman's 'Comradeship'. Epstein's Drawings of The Calamus Lovers, Walsall 2005
  • Moysheh Oyved: The Two Jacobs. An Impression of Jacob Epstein', in: Quest, Vol.18, No. 1-4, 1927, p. 405-410

Weblinks

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