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Mark Gertler (born Marks Gertler; 9 December 1891 – 23 June 1939) was a British painter of figure subjects, portraits and still-life. His early life and his relationship with Dora Carrington were the inspiration for Gilbert Cannan 's novel Mendel. [2] The characters of Loerke in D. H. Lawrence 's Women in Love, [3] and Gombauld in Aldous ...
In 1938, in Paint and Prejudice, the artist Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson recalled his friend and fellow Slade student Mark Gertler as 'the genius of the place... the most serious, single-minded artist I have ever come across.'. Self Portrait 1920. Mark Gertler (1891–1939) Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre.
Mark Gertler (born Marks Gertler; 9 December 1891 – 23 June 1939) was a British painter of figure subjects, portraits and still-life. His early life and his relationship with Dora Carrington were the inspiration for Gilbert Cannan's novel Mendel. The characters of Loerke in D. H. Lawrence's Women in Love, and Gombauld in Aldous Huxley's Crome ...
The Artist's Brother, Harry, c. 1911. Mark Gertler was born the fifth and youngest child of Austrian-Jewish immigrant parents in Spitalfields, London on 9 December 1891. During a period of economic downturn, the family was repatriated to Przemyśl, Galicia, then in the Austro-Hungarian empire (now Southern Poland), the following year.
Mark Gertler was a key figure in early twentieth-century British Art. The child of Polish-Jewish immigrants, Gertler was a talented child. He won a place at Slade School of Art, London, where he studied from 1908 to 1912. Over the next decade Gertler’s style developed from a naturalistic approach to one more directly influenced by both French ...
ARTIST. Gertler, Mark. 1891 – 1939. Painter, born in Spitalfields, London, the son of Polish refugees. In Gertler’s childhood, his family, in desperate poverty, moved to Austria, then America, before settling back in London in 1896. Gertler studied at Regent Street Polytechnic, 1906, but the following year, at his father’s insistence, was ...
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