Marianne Stokes

Marianne Stokes and Mrs. Adrian Stokes, born Preindlsberger ( born January 19, 1855 in Graz, † August 13 1927 in London) was an Austro -British painter.

Life

Marianne Preindlsberger first studied art at the Munich Academy under Wilhelm von Lindenschmit. Under the influence of the Munich school arose early works as the painting Dreaming girl from the year 1875. Later she moved with a scholarship to the Ecole des Beaux -Arts in Paris and took lessons with Pascal Adolphe Dagnan - Bouveret. The painter worked in Paris and the surrounding area and found the naturalism of the painting by Jules Bastien- Lepage and Jean -François Millet new models. 1883 she met during a stay in Pont- Aven in Brittany, the English painter Adrian Scott Stokes ( 1854-1935 ) know. Him she married in 1884 and moved to England with him. Marianne Stokes there 's painting Reflection it issued in the same year at the Paris Salon. After a new presentation of the painting in 1885 at the Royal Academy of Arts, it bought the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool. Marianne and Adrian Stokes in 1886 was followed by the reputation of the Irish painter Stanhope Forbes, the founder of the artists' colony in Newlyn School, St Ives in Cornwall, where they received by Helene Schjerfbeck longer visit. Here arose predominantly rural genre scenes. In the same year, the couple also visited the artist colony in Skagen on the northern tip of Denmark. (Michael Ancher's painting " Christening " and a series of photos demonstrate this relationship to the Skagenmalern ). Later Adrian and Marianne Stokes lived in various places in England. In addition to regular exhibitions at the Royal Academy, in 1893 she took part with some paintings at the World Columbian Exposition in Chicago, where she was awarded with a medal.

In the 1890s, Marianne Strokes turned to often medieval, religious and mythical motifs in her work. The influence and the tradition of the British Pre-Raphaelite and Art Nouveau occurs this out clearly. Around the turn of the century unfolded Marianne and Adrian Stokes a long journey activity. One shared journey of Mr. and Mrs. Stokes after Ždiar in the Carpathians was followed by a 1909 book published in London Hungary, whose derived by Marianne Stokes portrait studies Slovakian mountain farmers have also ethnographic importance. 1923 Marianne Stokes Fellow of the Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours, the Royal Watercolour Society later.

Works by the artist are among others in the Tate Gallery in London, in the Wallraf -Richartz- Museum & Fondation Corboud and in public collections of Pittsburgh, Manchester and Wolverhampton.

Selected Works

Madonna and Child

Aucassin and Nicolette

Romanian Children bringing Water to be Blessed in the Greek Church, Desze