Alexander Mann

Alexander Mann ( born January 22, 1853 in Glasgow, † January 26, 1908 in London) was a Scottish painter of the late Impressionism and important representative of the Glasgow Boys, a group of artists from the 19th and early 20th century. He operated mainly landscape painting and genre painting.

Life

Alexander Mann was the second son of James Mann, a wealthy merchant and art collector. In his youth he was taught painting at Greenlees James Robert. Later he studied at the Glasgow School of Art, where Greenlees was director. 1877 man went to Paris and attended the Académie Julian. Later he was a student of Mihály Munkácsy and 1881-1885 by Emile Auguste Carolus -Duran. During this time he was heavily influenced by Jules Bastien- Lepage and the Hague School. Man entertained throughout his career contact to Paris and placed repeatedly in the Salon de Paris.

Husband spent in the early 1880s, some time in Venice. There he created the painting A Bead Stringer, Venice, which in 1885 received an Honorary Mention at the Paris Salon. The subsequent exhibition at the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, however, led to public controversy. After these clashes moved man in the county of Berkshire to West Hagbourne and later to Blewbury. During these years he often painted in the Downs and in Suffolk. In addition, he maintained a studio in Chelsea, where he was a neighbor of James McNeill Whistler. He exhibited his works at the Fine Art Society, at the Royal Academy of Arts, the Royal Institute of Oil Painters, the New English Art Club and the Royal Society of British Artists.

1886 Mann was elected the first Scottish member of the New English Art Club. He was with John Lavery, Norman Garstin and Thomas Millie Dow friends from the Glasgow Boys. Husband traveled extensively around the UK and painted, including landscapes and genre scenes from the region of Angus and Fife. Further journeys, of which he also prepared numerous paintings, took him to France, Italy and Spain. At that time he lived in Kings Holme, Hagbourne, near Didcot in Oxfordshire. From 1890 to 1892 he lived with his family in Tangier. Then he sat down again in London. In 1893 he became a member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters. 1995 his work in London at the Barbican Centre in Dublin and at Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane were shown.