Edward Wadsworth

Edward Alexander Wadsworth ( born October 9, 1889 in Cleckheaton, Yorkshire, † June 21, 1949 in London) was a British painter of Vorticism.

Life

Wadsworth studied at the Slade School of Art, where he discovered the Vorticism and its co-founder, he was. He leaned on futurism and cubism in order to develop the geometric art to abstraction. During the First World War became the Royal Navy convened and, on the Mediterranean island Moudros. In the further course of the war him the supervision of Tarnungsarbeiten in Bristol and Liverpool was transferred, with him zugutekam his artistic experience. So he always developed new geometric variations, which diverted the attention of the enemy air reconnaissance.

He originally joined the Royal Navy Wadsworth used nautical motifs in his works.