Aubrey Beardsley

Aubrey Beardsley
Background information
Birthdate:	Aug 21, 1872
Born as:	Aubrey Vincent Beardsley
Location:	Brighton, Sussex, England
Date of death:	Mar 16, 1898 - at age 26
Death place:	Menton, Alpes-Maritimes, France
Education:	Westminster School of Art
Occupation:	Illustration, graphics/ graphic arts
Buried:	Cimetière du Vieux-Château, Menton, France
Nationality:	British

Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (21 August 1872 - 16 March 1898) was an English illustrator and author. His black ink drawings were influenced by Japanese woodcuts, and emphasized the grotesque, the decadent, and the erotic. He was a leading figure in the aesthetic movement which also included Oscar Wilde and James McNeill Whistler. Beardsley's contribution to the development of the Art Nouveau and poster styles was significant despite his early death from tuberculosis.

Death

In December 1896, Beardsley suffered a violent hemorrhage, leaving him in precarious health. By April 1897, a month after his conversion to Catholicism, his deteriorating health prompted a move to the French Riviera. There he died a year later, on 16 March 1898, of tuberculosis at the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Menton, Alpes-Maritimes, France, attended by his mother and sister. He was 25 years old. Following a requiem mass in Menton Cathedral the following day, his remains were interred in the Cimetière du Trabuquet.

Bibliography

Beardsley, Aubrey, Simon Wilson, and Linda Gertner Zatlin. 1998. Aubrey Beardsley: a centenary tribute. Tokyo: Art Life Ltd. OCLC 42742305 Bibliography

External links

More information is available at [ Wikipedia:Aubrey_Beardsley ]

Works by or about Aubrey Beardsley in libraries (WorldCat catalog)

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