Vanessa Bell

Vanessa Bell ( born May 28, 1879 in London when Vanessa Stephen, † April 7, 1961 Charleston Farmhouse, Sussex ) was an English painter and interior designer. She was a member of the Bloomsbury Group.

Life

Vanessa Stephen was the daughter of Leslie Stephen and Julia Prinsep Jackson his second wife. She was the older sister of the more famous writer Virginia Woolf. After his parents' death, the sisters lived in the Bloomsbury area of ​​London, where they met those who belonged to her famous circle of friends later. She studied art under Sir Arthur Cope and after his death at the art school of the Royal Academy.

In 1907 she married Clive Bell, with whom she had two sons - Quentin and Julian Bell - but even before the First World War they had lived apart and Vanessa Bell moved with the homosexual painter Duncan Grant and his former friend David Garnett together, stopped their husband still always on friendly terms. With Grant Bell in 1918 had a daughter, Angelica Bell, who later married David Garnett.

In her home in Charleston Sussex lived and worked Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant closely. Both wore the Omega was founded by Roger Fry in 1913 at workshops and employed Besides painting with different design directions. Up to Vanessa Bell death in 1961 she shared a house, but this is not prevented by two from pursuing other relationships.

In the film The Hours (2002) Vanessa Bell is played by Miranda Richardson.