Iris Tree

Iris Tree ( born January 27, 1897 in London, † April 13, 1968 ibid ) was a British poet, painter and actress.

Life

Iris Tree was the second daughter of three children of actor couple Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1853-1917) and his wife Helen Maud Holt ( 1858-1937 ). Her older sister Viola Tree (1884-1938) was also an actress.

She attended several private schools in England and France. In Paris she met Nancy Cunard know and was soon one of the Corrupt Coterie on. The group included, among others, Lady Diana Cooper, Osbert Sitwell and Raymond Asquith - they spent their evenings arguing about politics and poetry in Parisian cafes. Upon her return to England Tree studied at the Art School Slade School of Fine Art in London. To finance her studies, she got several artists model, including Augustus John, Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell and Roger Fry, and the sculptor Jacob Epstein.

Iris Tree was married twice. In her first marriage, she married in December 1916, the New York avant-garde photographer Curtis Moffat ( 1887-1949 ). The marriage was a son, Ivan Moffat (1918-2002), out. His second wife married in New York City the Austrian film actor Friedrich von Ledebur (1900-1986 actually Friedrich, Graf von Ledebur Wicheln ) who embodied the South Sea Islanders Queequeg in Moby Dick. From the joint compound also was a son, Christian Dion ( b. 1928 ), produced.

Primary literature

Secondary literature

• Daphne Fielding: The Rainbow Picnic: A Portrait of Iris Tree (1974 ) ISBN 0-413-28520-0