William De Morgan

William Frend De Morgan ( born November 16, 1839 in London, † January 15, 1917 ) was a British artist of the Arts and Crafts Movement and writer.

Life

De Morgan was born into a family of French Huguenots. His father, Augustus De Morgan, was the first professor of mathematics at the newly founded University College London. His mother, Sofia Elizabeth Frend, was a women's rights activist who campaigned jointly with Elizabeth Fry in the early 19th century for prison reforms, religious freedom and women's suffrage.

In 1859, De Morgan was admitted to the Royal Academy Schools. There he studied with Frederick Walker and Simeon Solomon. Henry Holiday, who was one of his acquaintances, he presented the artist and poet William Morris. After this encounter, De Morgan turned to the decorative arts and began to make experiments in the field of stained glass.

In 1863, William Morris, William De Morgan and the painter Edward Burne -Jones met. Since Morris had had little success in the design of ceramic articles, De Morgan took over the tile production in its operation. Soon he began to design their own tiles and then worked for many years with Morris, together with whom he became friends.

De Morgan was married to the painter Evelyn De Morgan, the so-called " pre-Raphaelite " style used.

Creative phase

  • Ceramics

Writings (selection )

Due to illness, De Morgan spent some time with his wife, Florence. At the age of 65 he began to write novels which developed into bestsellers, so that he could secure a living for himself and his wife with the proceeds. As a versatile creative person, he also developed telegraph codes, designed new kilns, sketched ideas for mills and sieves, was working on a new transmission for bicycles and developed his own system for cash accounts.

  • Joseph Vance. Grosset & Dunlap, New York in 1906, OCLC 5107112.ld -
  • Alice -for- Short. Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1907, OCLC 3,282,865th
  • Bruce Rogers: It Never Can Happen Again. Henry Holt and Company, New York 1909, OCLC 364,168th
  • An Affair of Dishonour H. Frowde, Toronto 1910, ISBN 0-6657-5206-7.
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