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2 unusual facts about Sickert


Sickert

Sickert, Haut-Rhin, commune in the Haut-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France

Oswald Sickert (1828–1885), Danish-German artist, father of Walter Sickert


Helena Swanwick

Helena Lucy Maria Swanwick, née Sickert CH (1864, Munich – 16 November 1939) was a British feminist and pacifist.

Peter Anton Kreusser

He formed a close association with the Wornum family that extended over two generations and resulted in the Sickert family coming to live in England.

Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper—Case Closed

Cornwell's book was released to much controversy, especially within the British art world, where Sickert's work is admired, and also among “Ripperologists,” who dispute her research methods and conclusions.

Cornwell also had a stamp licked by the writer of one of the supposed Ripper letters analysed for DNA, and claimed it pointed to Sickert.

Richard Shone

Shone curated several exhibitions dedicated to British art, such as Walter Sickert’s portraits at the Victoria Art Gallery in Bath (1990); a full Sickert retrospective at the Royal Academy of Arts in London and Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam (1992–93, with Wendy Baron); The Art of Bloomsbury for the Tate Gallery, London (1999).


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