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Jacob Epstein [also known as Sir Jacob Epstein] was born into an Orthodox Jewish family at 102 Hester Street, Lower East Side, New York City on 10 November 1880. He attended the Art Students League in New York in from 1893 to 1898, taking night classes in 1899.
Jacob Epstein was a pivotal member of the London avant-garde in the first half of the twentieth century. As a collector, he increased the visibility of Indigenous arts of Africa, the Americas, and the Pacific. Born to parents of Eastern European Jewish descent, Epstein studied painting and sculpture in New York and Paris before relocating ...
Sir Jacob Epstein KBE (10 November 1880 – 19 August 1959) was an American British sculptor who helped pioneer modern sculpture. He was born in the United States, and moved to Europe in 1902, becoming a British subject in 1911. He often produced controversial works which challenged ideas on what was appropriate subject matter for public artworks.
A radical English art movement of the early twentieth century led by Percy Wyndham Lewis. Influenced by the Futurists, they favoured urban, industrial subjects and promoted a hard-edged, angular style. American-born Epstein studied art in Paris then settled in England in 1905. He was one of the first sculptors to take an interest in (so-called)...
Feb 12, 2016 · Jacob Epstein. Tomb of Oscar Wilde (193-14) Inspired by the great Assyrian guardian statues, the winged lions with the faces of kings, Epstein carved a huge tomb statue of a winged young man, knees bent, legs folded, and arms stretched backwards against the rush of wind–he is not kneeling, he is flying.
Biography. Sculptor who emigrated from the U.S. to England and became one of the country's leading artists. His portrait and figure work was well received and included depictions of Paul Robeson, T.S. Eliot and John Gielgud. His public commissions, however, were frequently assailed as modernism at its worst.
Sculptor Jacob Epstein was born into a relatively prosperous family of Russian/Polish-Jewish immigrants in New York City, USA on 10 November 1880, but as a teenager rejected the Orthodoxy of his upbringing. From 1893–98 he attended classes at the Art Students' League and he eventually turned to sculpture, working in a bronze foundry (1901–2).
