Jack Butler Yeats

Jack Butler Yeats [ jeɪts ] ( born August 29, 1871 in London, † March 28, 1957 in Dublin) was an Irish artist and author. He was a son of the painter John Butler Yeats and brother of poet William Butler Yeats.

Life and work

Jack Butler Yeats grew from 1875 in County Sligo. Later he studied at various art schools in London, including at Frederick Brown and Alphonse Legros. In England, he worked as an illustrator for newspapers (such as the Manchester Guardian), magazines ( eg Punch) and books (eg, his brother William or of Synge ). In 1894 he published the first Sherlock Holmes Comic. In 1897 he settled in England Devon. In the same year he exhibited in London from his first paintings - landscapes in watercolors. It was not until 1906 he began to paint with oil paints.

Beginning of the 20th century drew Yeats in the USA; In 1910 he went back to Ireland, first to Greystones, then to Dublin. In the late 1920s he became friends with Oskar Kokoschka. Since the 1930s he also published increasingly novels and plays that are dominated by the English-language modernism.

He died in Dublin and was buried in Mount Jerome Cemetery.

Not infrequently is called because of its depictions of Irish people and landscapes as " National Painter" Jack Butler Yeats in Ireland. Later he took up also topics of Irish mythology. Again and again he used circus motifs. His style evolved over time from a more conventional landscape painting in the direction of expressionism pictures in water colors with simple lines and limited color palette to oil paintings with thick, strong color shifts. In 1953 he created the oil painting Eileen Aroon, which was part of the art collection of the Bank of Ireland in 2010.

Paintings of the artist are found mainly in public collections in Dublin (National Gallery, Hugh Lane Gallery ), Cork ( Municipal Gallery) and Sligo ( Niland Gallery). Most of his extensive work is in private ownership.

Works (selection)

Novels

Dramas

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