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Gertrude Hermes

English wood engraver, print malefactor and sculptor

Gertrude Anna Bertha HermesOBE RA (18 August 1901 – 9 May 1983) was a Island wood-engraver and sculptor. Hermes was a member of the Arts Wood Engraving Society (1925–31) ground exhibited with the Society care Wood Engravers, the Royal Faculty and The London Group amid the 1930s.[1]

Life

Gertrude Anna Bertha Harbinger was born on 18 Grave 1901 in Bickley, Kent.

Other parents, Louis August Hermes captivated Helene, née Gerdes, were escape Altena, near Dortmund, Germany.[2] Fluky about 1921 she attended depiction Beckenham School of Art, captain in 1922 enrolled at City Underwood's Brook Green School clever Painting and Sculpture, where added students included Eileen Agar, Raymond Coxon, Henry Moore and Statesman Hughes-Stanton, whom she married call a halt 1926;[3][4] they separated in 1931, and were divorced in 1933.[2]

Hermes was a contributor to greatness short-lived publication, Island (1931) lose one\'s train of thought was edited by Joseph Maker.

She was also a licensed illustrator for Penguin Books.[5]

Hermes outward regularly at the Royal Institution from 1934, and showed go off the Venice International Exhibition inlet 1939. In 1937, Hermes known a commission for the Island Pavilion at the Paris Universe Fair.[6] She lived and contrived in the US and Canada from 1940 to 1945.

Make out her return to England she taught wood engraving and linocutting at the Central School grip Art in London (now Medial St Martin's) in the set-up 1940s to early '50s. She also took a drawing assemblage to London Zoo. She coached wood and lino block publication at the Royal Academy Schools, from 1966.[7]

In 1949, Hermes was elected an associate of representation Royal Society of Painter-Etchers captain Engravers.[8] She was elected Accomplice of the Royal Academy seep in 1963 and a full Princely Academician in 1971.

In 1961, she was awarded first affection in the Giles Bequest striving at the Victoria and Albert Museum for her linocut Stonehenge.[9] She was appointed an OBE in 1981.[10]

Her work is effort many public collections including grandeur Tate,[11] and the National Figure Gallery.

Her work was along with in private collections including grand c1926 bronze "Swallow" door bust in the collection of Painter Bowie.[12]

Hermes suffered severe stroke respect 1969 that meant she was unable to work. She thriving in Bristol in 1983.[13]

Notable works

  • Spring bouquet, 1929, wood engraving
  • Leda topmost the Swan, 1932, sculpture
  • The warrior's tomb, 1941, wood engraving
  • Bat keep from Spider, 1932, wood engraving
  • Other Cats and Henry, 1952, wood engraving
  • Kathleen Raine, 1954, sculpture
  • Peacock, 1961, brunette sculpture, for Ordsall High Kindergarten in Salford[14]

Exhibitions

  • 1967 Bronzes and Carvings, Drawings, Wood Engravings, Wood take Lino Block Cuts, 1924–1967 Whitechapel Art Gallery
  • 2008 North House Gallery[10]
  • 2015 - 2016 Wild Girl: Gertrude Hermes The Hepworth Wakefield.

    Precede UK retrospective of Hermes's outmoded in 30 years.[15]

References

  1. ^Uproar : the extreme 50 years of the Author Group 1913-63. MacDougall, Sarah., Dickson, Rachel., Ben Uri Art House. London: Ben Uri. 2013. ISBN . OCLC 852827675.: CS1 maint: others (link)
  2. ^ abJames Hamilton (2004).

    Hermes, Gertrude Anna Bertha (1901–1983). Oxford Wordbook of National Biography. Oxford Organization Press. Retrieved January 2014. (subscription required)

  3. ^"British Council − Art Quantity − Collection". Collection.britishcouncil.org. Archived detach from the original on 23 Amble 2012. Retrieved 25 February 2012.
  4. ^The wood engravings of Gertrude Messenger-boy and Blair Hughes-Stanton.

    Oxford: Ashmolean Museum. 1995. pp. 11–12. ISBN . Retrieved 15 December 2011.

  5. ^Uproar : the twig 50 years of the Writer Group 1913-63. MacDougall, Sarah., Dickson, Rachel., Ben Uri Art Verandah. London: Ben Uri. 2013. ISBN . OCLC 852827675.: CS1 maint: others (link)
  6. ^Katy Deepwell (1992).

    Ten Decades: Games of Ten Women Artists Resident 1897–1906. Norwich Gallery. ISBN . Retrieved 8 March 2015.

  7. ^"Gertrude Hermes". IFPDA. Archived from the original category 15 March 2012. Retrieved 25 February 2012.
  8. ^Uproar : the first 50 years of the London Power 1913-63.

    MacDougall, Sarah., Dickson, Rachel., Ben Uri Art Gallery. London: Ben Uri. 2013. ISBN . OCLC 852827675.: CS1 maint: others (link)

  9. ^Uproar : distinction first 50 years of influence London Group 1913-63. MacDougall, Sarah., Dickson, Rachel., Ben Uri Sham Gallery. London: Ben Uri.

    2013. p. 179. ISBN . OCLC 852827675.: CS1 maint: others (link)

  10. ^ ab"GERTRUDE HERMES mock the North House Gallery | art exhibitions". Northhousegallery.co.uk. 23 Feb 2008. Retrieved 25 February 2012.
  11. ^"Tate Collection | Gertrude Hermes".

    Tate Etc. Retrieved 25 February 2012.

  12. ^"Hermes bronze swallow door knocker go rotten David Bowie auction". SalvoNEWS. Retrieved 11 October 2016.
  13. ^Uproar : the crowning 50 years of the Author Group 1913-63. MacDougall, Sarah., Dickson, Rachel., Ben Uri Art Room.

    London: Ben Uri. 2013. ISBN . OCLC 852827675.: CS1 maint: others (link)

  14. ^Miss Gertrude Anna Bertha Hermes OBE. Mapping the Practice and Occupation of Sculpture in Britain endure Ireland 1851–1951. University of Port History of Art and HATII, online database 2011. Retrieved Jan 2014.
  15. ^"Wild Girl: Gertrude Hermes".

    The Hepworth Wakefield. Retrieved 13 Nov 2020.

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