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Walter Richard Sickert
1860-1942
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Article provided by Grove Art Online www.groveart.com
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British painter, , teacher and writer of German birth. Sickert was one of the most influential British artists of this century. He is often called a painter's painter, appealing primarily to artists working in the tradition; there are few British figurative painters of the 20th century whose development can be adequately discussed without reference to Sickert's subject-matter or innovative techniques. He had a direct influence on the and the , while his effect on Frank Auerbach, Howard Hodgkin and Francis Bacon was less tangible. Sickert's active career as an artist lasted for nearly 60 years. His output was vast. He may be judged equally as the last of the painters and as a major precursor of significant international developments in later 20th-century art, especially in his photo-based .
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