Amy Drucker
Amy Drucker | |
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| Born | Amy Julia Drucker 1873 London, England |
| Died | November 1951 (aged 77–78) |
| Alma mater | St John's Wood Art School; Lambeth School of Art; Académie Colarossi |
| Occupations | Artist and educator |
Amy Julia Drucker (1873 – November 1951) was a British artist and educator of Jewish descent.
Biography
[edit | edit source]The daughter of a wine merchant and his wife from Germany, Drucker was born in London, England, and grew up in Hampstead.[1] She was educated at South Hampstead High School and studied art at St John's Wood Art School and the Lambeth School of Art, both in London, and at the Académie Colarossi in Paris, France.[1][2] She had a studio in Bloomsbury.[3] Besides paintings, watercolours and pastels, she also produced lithographs, miniatures, woodcut prints, drawings and etchings.[1] She exhibited her work regularly from 1888 to 1949 at various venues in England, including at the Royal Academy in London.[4][5] She also exhibited at the Paris Salon and had solo shows in Buenos Aires, Lima, Panama, Jerusalem, Beijing and Shanghai.[1]
Drucker travelled extensively, spending time in the Europe, the Far East, South America, Palestine and Abyssinia, where was commissioned to paint a portrait of Haile Selassie.[1][2][3] She made extensive drawings of the people and cultures she encountered on her travels and taught painting and printing in Calcutta, at the Jerusalem School of Art and gave private art lessons in London.[1]
During World War I, Drucker served in the Women's Land Army.[6] During World War II, she worked in a factory and as a night watchman.[6] After her death, two portfolios of her work were presented at the Royal Anthropological Institute. In 1952, an exhibition of her work was shown at the Ben Uri Gallery and a prize was awarded in two consecutive years in her name to a promising young Jewish artist.[6] The Ben Uri Gallery holds several works by Drucker.[3]
Her better-known paintings include:
References
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External links
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- 1873 births
- 1951 deaths
- 20th-century British women painters
- 20th-century English painters
- 20th-century English women artists
- Académie Colarossi alumni
- Alumni of St John's Wood Art School
- Alumni of the Lambeth School of Art
- English people of German-Jewish descent
- Jewish women artists
- Painters from London
- People from Hampstead
- Women's Land Army members of World War I