Lawrence Gowing

Sir Lawrence Gowing Burnett (* April 21, 1918 in Stoke Newington, London, † February 5, 1991 in London) was a British painter and art historian.

Biography

Lawrence Gowing completed post-school study painting at the Euston Road School at William Coldstream. His most famous painting before the Second World War was the 1937's "Mare Street, Hackney ." His painting style influenced by Impressionism, he turned particularly in portraits like 1944 portrait "Mrs Roberts ".

In 1948, he was himself appointed Professor of Fine Arts at the University of Durham, where he worked until 1958. At the same time he was rector of King Edward VII School of Art in Newcastle upon Tyne. 1958 he was appointed rector of the Chelsea School of Art, whose director he remained until 1965. Gowing 1967 was appointed Professor of Fine Arts at the University of Leeds, where he taught as a professor at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London until his appointment in 1975. For that places local ten years of service, he joined in 1985 to retire.

Publications

During his teaching career he published several art historical works such as:

• Renoir. In 1947.
• Vermeer. In 1952.
• John Constable. In 1961.
• Goya. In 1965.
• Matisse. 1979th edition: Lichtenberg, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-7852-8406-3.
• Lucian Freud. In 1982.

In addition, he was co-editor of

• Germain Bazin, Horst Gerson, Lawrence Gowing et al (Ed.): Kindler painting lexicon. Band 1-6. Kindler, Zurich from 1964 to 1971.