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Erica O'Donnell
Erica O'Donnell MBE (11 March 1920 - 12 March 1999) was an Irish art historian and SOE officer. She founded and was the first director of the Courtauld Institute's Study Centre for the History of the Fine and Decorative Arts. Early life and education Erica Marie-Josèphe O'Donnell was born in Dublin on 11 March 1920. Her parents were Eric Hugh and Mary Mabel Elizabeth O'Donnell (née Dunbar), she was their only child. Her father was a British army officer of Dublin and Ballingaddy, County Limerick, and served with distinction in France and the Balkans during World War I. Her maternal grandfather was Joseph Charles Dunbar of Cork and Ceylon. O'Donnell attended St. Mary's Convent in Ascot, Berkshire from 1929 to 1935, going on to study the history of art, entering the Courtauld Institute in 1937. She travelled during her studies, living in Paris and Salzburg, and travelling to Germany. She returned to England after the outbreak of World War II. As she was fluent in German and Frenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Courtauld Institute
The Courtauld Institute of Art (), commonly referred to as The Courtauld, is a self-governing college of the University of London specialising in the study of the history of art and conservation. The art collection is known particularly for its French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings and is housed in the Courtauld Gallery. The Courtauld is based in Somerset House, in the Strand in London. In 2019, the Courtauld's teaching and research activities temporarily relocated to Vernon Square, London, while its Somerset House site underwent a major regeneration project. History The Courtauld was founded in 1932 through the philanthropic efforts of the industrialist and art collector Samuel Courtauld, the diplomat and collector Lord Lee of Fareham, and the art historian Sir Robert Witt. Originally the Courtauld was based in Home House, a townhouse designed by Robert Adam in Portman Square, Marylebone. The Strand block of Somerset House, designed by William Cham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Special Forces Club
The Special Forces Club (SFC) is a private members' club located in Knightsbridge, London. Initially established in 1945 for former personnel of the Special Operations Executive, members of wartime resistance organisations, the Special Air Service, Special Boat Service and First Aid Nursing Yeomanry, its membership now includes those who had served, or were serving, in organisations and units closely associated with special operations and the intelligence community. Foundation and membership The SFC was founded in 1945 on the initiative of Major General Sir Colin Gubbins, the last Chief of the Special Operations Executive (SOE). The club was intended by its founders to be a meeting place for both those who had served in the SOE and for members of kindred organisations. This tradition has continued, with the club maintaining a close relationship with the Office of Strategic Services (OSS); like-minded groups in Australia, Canada and New Zealand; along with the successors of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Józef Kisielewski
Józef Kisielewski (26 January 1905 – 20 July 1966) was a Polish writer, journalist and right-wing politician of the National Party. Kisielewski was born in Mostyska. He studied Polish Language at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. After graduation, in 1929, he worked as a secretary in a Roman Catholic weekly ''Przewodnik Katolicki'', then, in 1931 became editor-in-chief of the ''Tecza'' monthly. Also, his articles were published in a right-wing weekly Prosto z mostu. In the years 1937 and 1938 Kisielewski went on a series of trips across then-northern Germany, from Berlin, through Hanover, Hamburg, and Stettin to Leba. In the summer of 1939, soon before the outbreak of the Second World War, his book '' Ziemia Gromadzi Prochy'' (''Earth Gathers the Ashes'') was published. The book is a report of his trips, it critically analyzes everyday life of prewar Nazi Germany and accentuates Slavic past of large parts of Germany. Kisielewski was aware of the growing power of Nazi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timothy Schroder
''English Silver Before the Civil War'' is Timothy Schroder's account of English domestic and church silver from a little before the Tudor age (1485–1603) to the threshold of the Civil War (1642–51). Focusing on a private collection formed over the last thirty years, the book also "provides a general introduction to the silver trade and to dining customs of the period." Critical reception Writing in ''The Art Newspaper'', Tessa Murdoch praised the book's "accessible text, exemplary silver photography, elegant design and careful editing". Her remarks were reinforced by Kirstin Kennedy in her review in ''The Burlington Magazine'': "Schroder’s clear, thoughtful account . . . marries object-based evidence with visual and documentary sources . . . The arguments of the text are supported by superb photographs . . . a clear layout and a detailed index." In ''Silver Magazine'', Dorothea Burstyn commented favourably on the book's production: "As with all books published by John Adam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giles Waterfield
Giles Waterfield (24 July 1949 – 5 November 2016) was a British, McKitterick Prize—winning novelist, art historian and curator. Personal life and education Giles Waterfield spent his childhood in Paris and Geneva, and was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford and the Courtauld Institute of Art. Career In 1971 Giles Waterfield began his one-year work as an assistant teacher at the Merz-Schule, Stuttgart. From 1976 until 1979 he worked as Education Services Officer at the Royal Pavilion, Brighton. In 1979 he became the (first) Director of the Dulwich Picture Gallery, where he remained until 1996. After that he was an independent curator, writer and university lecturer. His consultancies included Britten-Pears Foundation, South Bank Centre, Royal Academy of Arts, Sotheby’s London, Department for Culture, Media and Sport, National Trust for England and Wales, Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment, Ince Blundell (for English Heritage). In 1996–2000 he was a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harriet Bridgeman
Victoria Harriet Lucy Bridgeman, Viscountess Bridgeman (née Turton; born 1942) is the founder of the Bridgeman Art Library, a for-profit company that provides a large collection of fine art images and the Artists' Collecting Society, a not-for-profit Community Interest Company dedicated to the collection of the Artist's Resale Right (''Droit de Suite'') and copyright on behalf of artists and artists’ estates in both the UK and the EEA. Early life and education Born to Ralph Meredyth Turton and Mary Blanche Chetwynd-Stapylton in County Durham, England, she is one of four daughters. Throughout her early youth, she was educated at home by a governess, under the Parents' National Educational Union System. She then attended St Mary's School in Wantage, Berkshire, and Trinity College, Dublin, graduating with a Master of Arts degree. After graduating in 1964, she worked as an editorial trainee with '' The Lady'' magazine. Continuing with her passion for writing, in 1965, she w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
