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Anita Brookner

March 10, 2023

Anita Brookner CBE (16 July 1928 – 10 March 2016)[1] was an English novelist and art historian. She was Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Cambridge from 1967 to 1968 and was the first woman to hold this visiting professorship. She was awarded the 1984 Booker–McConnell Prize for her novel Hotel du Lac.

Anita Brookner

CBE
Born(1928-07-16)16 July 1928
Herne Hill, London, England
Died10 March 2016(2016-03-10) (aged 87)
London, England
Occupation
Alma materKing's College London
Period1981–2011
GenreDrama
Notable workHotel du Lac

Life and education

Brookner (Bruckner) was born in Herne Hill, a suburb of London.[2][3] She was the only child of Newson Bruckner, a Jewish immigrant from Piotrków Trybunalski in Poland, and Maude Schiska, a singer whose grandfather had emigrated from Warsaw, Poland, and founded a tobacco factory at which her husband worked after arriving in Britain aged 18. Her mother gave up her singing career when she married and, according to her daughter, was unhappy for the rest of her life.[4][5] Maude changed the family's surname to Brookner because of anti-German sentiment in Britain.[6] Anita Brookner had a lonely childhood, although her grandmother and uncle lived with the family, and her parents, secular Jews, opened their house to Jewish refugees fleeing the Germans during the 1930s and World War II. "I have said that I am one of the loneliest women in London" she said in her Paris Review interview.[7][8]

She was educated at the James Allen's Girls' School,[9] a fee-paying school. In 1949 she received a BA in history from King's College London, and in 1953 a doctorate in art history from the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London.[10] Under the supervision of Anthony Blunt, then director of the Courtauld, what was originally a Masters thesis on the French genre painter Jean-Baptiste Greuze was upgraded to a doctorate.[5] However, she received a French government scholarship in 1950 to the École du Louvre and spent most of the decade living in Paris.[9]

Career

Academic

In 1967, she became the first woman to hold the Slade Professorship of Fine Art at Cambridge University.[10] She was a visiting lecturer at Reading University from 1959 to 1964 when she became a lecturer at the Courtauld Institute of Art. She was promoted to Reader at the Courtauld in 1977, where she worked until her retirement in 1988.[5] She began her career as a specialist on 18th century French art but later extended her expertise to the romantics.[5] She contributed articles to ArtReview in the late 1950s and early 1960s,[11]

Among her students at the Courtauld was art historian Olivier Berggruen, whose graduate work she advised.[12] She was a Fellow of King's College London and of New Hall, Cambridge (Murray Edwards College from 2008).

Photographs taken by Anita Brookner are held in the Conway Library of art and architecture at the Courtauld Institute.[13]

Novelist

Brookner published her first novel, A Start in Life (1981), at the age of 53. Thereafter she published roughly one a year. Brookner was regarded as a stylist. Her novels explore themes of emotional loss and difficulties associated with fitting into society, and intellectual, middle-class women, who suffer isolation and disappointments in love. Many of her characters are the children of European immigrants to Britain; a number appear to be of Jewish descent.[14][15] Hotel du Lac (1984), her fourth novel, was awarded the Booker–McConnell Prize.

Private life and honours

Brookner never married, but took care of her parents as they aged. Brookner commented in one interview that she had received several proposals of marriage, but rejected all of them, concluding that men were "people with their own agenda, who think you might be fitted in if they lop off certain parts. You can see them coming a mile off."[16]

She gave the 1974 Aspects of Art Lecture.[17][18] In 1990, she was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE).[10]

She died in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea,[19] London, on 10 March 2016, at the age of 87.[9]

Publications

See also

References

  1. ^ "Anita Brookner, Booker Prize-winning author, dies age 87, Times announces". BBC News. 14 March 2016. Retrieved 14 March 2016.
  2. ^ Free BMD: Births Jul-Sep 1928 Bruckner, Anita Schishka (mother) Camberwell 1d 991
  3. ^ . Harry Ransom Center. The University of Texas at Austin. Archived from the original on 10 March 2009.
  4. ^ "Anita Brookner". The Times. 15 March 2016. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
  5. ^ a b c d McNay, Michael (15 March 2016). "Anita Brookner obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
  6. ^ Gutteridge, Peter (15 March 2016). "Doctor Anita Brookner: Art historian who began writing novels at the age of 53 and won the Booker Prize for Hotel du Lac". The Independent. Archived from the original on 7 May 2022. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
  7. ^ "Anita Brookner, The Art of Fiction No. 98". Paris Review. Retrieved 20 September 2018.
  8. ^ Alam, Rumaan (1 March 2018). "In Praise of Anita Brookner". The New York Times. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
  9. ^ a b c "Anita Brookner, novelist - obituary". The Daily Telegraph. 15 March 2016. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
  10. ^ a b c Cowell, Alan (15 March 2016). "Anita Brookner, Whose Bleak Fiction Won the Booker Prize, Dies at 87". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
  11. ^ "What is Romanticism", ArtReview, 12 September 1959}
  12. ^ Olivier Berggruen. "Olivier Berggruen on Anita Brookner (1928–2016) - artforum.com / passages". Artforum.com. Retrieved 21 June 2016.
  13. ^ "Who made the Conway Library?". Digital Media. 30 June 2020. Retrieved 19 November 2020.
  14. ^ Dr Anita Brookner at British Council: Literature
  15. ^ Malcolm, Cheryl Alexander. . University of South Carolina. Archived from the original on 31 December 2001.
  16. ^ Morrison, Blake (18 June 1994). "A game of solitaire". The Independent. Archived from the original on 7 May 2022. Retrieved 8 March 2022.
  17. ^ "Aspects of Art Lectures". The British Academy.
  18. ^ Brookner, Anita (1975). "Jacques-Louis David: A Personal Interpretation" (PDF). Proceedings of the British Academy. 60: 155–171.
  19. ^ "DOR Q1/2016 in KENSINGTON AND CHELSEA (239-1C)". GRO Online Indexes. General Register Office for England and Wales. Entry Number 513506834. Retrieved 22 February 2022.

Further reading

  • Shusha Guppy (Fall 1987). "Anita Brookner, The Art of Fiction No. 98". Paris Review. Fall 1987 (104).

External links

 
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Anita Brookner CBE 16 July 1928 10 March 2016 1 was an English novelist and art historian She was Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Cambridge from 1967 to 1968 and was the first woman to hold this visiting professorship She was awarded the 1984 Booker McConnell Prize for her novel Hotel du Lac Anita BrooknerCBEBorn 1928 07 16 16 July 1928Herne Hill London EnglandDied10 March 2016 2016 03 10 aged 87 London EnglandOccupationArt historian novelistAlma materKing s College LondonPeriod1981 2011GenreDramaNotable workHotel du Lac Contents 1 Life and education 2 Career 2 1 Academic 2 2 Novelist 3 Private life and honours 4 Publications 5 See also 6 References 7 Further reading 8 External linksLife and education EditBrookner Bruckner was born in Herne Hill a suburb of London 2 3 She was the only child of Newson Bruckner a Jewish immigrant from Piotrkow Trybunalski in Poland and Maude Schiska a singer whose grandfather had emigrated from Warsaw Poland and founded a tobacco factory at which her husband worked after arriving in Britain aged 18 Her mother gave up her singing career when she married and according to her daughter was unhappy for the rest of her life 4 5 Maude changed the family s surname to Brookner because of anti German sentiment in Britain 6 Anita Brookner had a lonely childhood although her grandmother and uncle lived with the family and her parents secular Jews opened their house to Jewish refugees fleeing the Germans during the 1930s and World War II I have said that I am one of the loneliest women in London she said in her Paris Review interview 7 8 She was educated at the James Allen s Girls School 9 a fee paying school In 1949 she received a BA in history from King s College London and in 1953 a doctorate in art history from the Courtauld Institute of Art University of London 10 Under the supervision of Anthony Blunt then director of the Courtauld what was originally a Masters thesis on the French genre painter Jean Baptiste Greuze was upgraded to a doctorate 5 However she received a French government scholarship in 1950 to the Ecole du Louvre and spent most of the decade living in Paris 9 Career EditAcademic Edit In 1967 she became the first woman to hold the Slade Professorship of Fine Art at Cambridge University 10 She was a visiting lecturer at Reading University from 1959 to 1964 when she became a lecturer at the Courtauld Institute of Art She was promoted to Reader at the Courtauld in 1977 where she worked until her retirement in 1988 5 She began her career as a specialist on 18th century French art but later extended her expertise to the romantics 5 She contributed articles to ArtReview in the late 1950s and early 1960s 11 Among her students at the Courtauld was art historian Olivier Berggruen whose graduate work she advised 12 She was a Fellow of King s College London and of New Hall Cambridge Murray Edwards College from 2008 Photographs taken by Anita Brookner are held in the Conway Library of art and architecture at the Courtauld Institute 13 Novelist Edit Brookner published her first novel A Start in Life 1981 at the age of 53 Thereafter she published roughly one a year Brookner was regarded as a stylist Her novels explore themes of emotional loss and difficulties associated with fitting into society and intellectual middle class women who suffer isolation and disappointments in love Many of her characters are the children of European immigrants to Britain a number appear to be of Jewish descent 14 15 Hotel du Lac 1984 her fourth novel was awarded the Booker McConnell Prize Private life and honours EditBrookner never married but took care of her parents as they aged Brookner commented in one interview that she had received several proposals of marriage but rejected all of them concluding that men were people with their own agenda who think you might be fitted in if they lop off certain parts You can see them coming a mile off 16 She gave the 1974 Aspects of Art Lecture 17 18 In 1990 she was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire CBE 10 She died in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea 19 London on 10 March 2016 at the age of 87 9 Publications EditGreuze 1725 1805 The Rise and Fall of an Eighteenth century Phenomenon 1972 ISBN 9780236176786 on Jean Baptiste Greuze Jacques Louis David 1980 ISBN 9780064305075 on the history painter Jacques Louis David A Start in Life 1981 US title The Debut ISBN 9780241976500 Providence 1982 ISBN 9780307826213 Look at Me 1983 ISBN 9780307826206 Hotel du Lac 1984 ISBN 9780307826220 Booker Prize winner Family and Friends 1985 ISBN 9780307826237 A Misalliance 1986 ISBN 9780307826343 A Friend from England 1987 ISBN 9780307826336 Latecomers 1988 ISBN 9780307826183 Lewis Percy 1989 ISBN 9780307826190 Brief Lives 1990 ISBN 9780307826251 A Closed Eye 1991 ISBN 9780307826275 Fraud 1992 ISBN 9780307826268 A Family Romance 1993 US title Dolly ISBN 9780140234060 A Private View 1994 ISBN 9780307826299 Incidents in the Rue Laugier 1995 ISBN 9780307826305 Altered States 1996 ISBN 9780307826312 Visitors 1997 ISBN 9780307826329 Falling Slowly 1998 ISBN 9780307826244 Undue Influence 1999 ISBN 9780307492364 Romanticism and its Discontents 2000 ISBN 9780374251598 The Bay of Angels 2001 ISBN 9781400033010 The Next Big Thing 2002 US title Making Things Better longlisted for the Booker Prize The Rules of Engagement 2003 ISBN 9780141910222 Leaving Home 2005 ISBN 9781400095650 Strangers 2009 shortlisted for James Tait Black Memorial Prize ISBN 9780307477583 At The Hairdresser 2011 novella available only as an e book See also EditWomen in the art history fieldReferences Edit Anita Brookner Booker Prize winning author dies age 87 Times announces BBC News 14 March 2016 Retrieved 14 March 2016 Free BMD Births Jul Sep 1928 Bruckner Anita Schishka mother Camberwell 1d 991 Anita Brookner 1928 Notebooks ca 1986 1994 Harry Ransom Center The University of Texas at Austin Archived from the original on 10 March 2009 Anita Brookner The Times 15 March 2016 Retrieved 29 March 2020 a b c d McNay Michael 15 March 2016 Anita Brookner obituary The Guardian Retrieved 29 March 2020 Gutteridge Peter 15 March 2016 Doctor Anita Brookner Art historian who began writing novels at the age of 53 and won the Booker Prize for Hotel du Lac The Independent Archived from the original on 7 May 2022 Retrieved 29 March 2020 Anita Brookner The Art of Fiction No 98 Paris Review Retrieved 20 September 2018 Alam Rumaan 1 March 2018 In Praise of Anita Brookner The New York Times Retrieved 29 March 2020 a b c Anita Brookner novelist obituary The Daily Telegraph 15 March 2016 Retrieved 29 March 2020 a b c Cowell Alan 15 March 2016 Anita Brookner Whose Bleak Fiction Won the Booker Prize Dies at 87 The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved 29 March 2020 What is Romanticism ArtReview 12 September 1959 Olivier Berggruen Olivier Berggruen on Anita Brookner 1928 2016 artforum com passages Artforum com Retrieved 21 June 2016 Who made the Conway Library Digital Media 30 June 2020 Retrieved 19 November 2020 Dr Anita Brookner at British Council Literature Malcolm Cheryl Alexander Understanding Anita Brookner University of South Carolina Archived from the original on 31 December 2001 Morrison Blake 18 June 1994 A game of solitaire The Independent Archived from the original on 7 May 2022 Retrieved 8 March 2022 Aspects of Art Lectures The British Academy Brookner Anita 1975 Jacques Louis David A Personal Interpretation PDF Proceedings of the British Academy 60 155 171 DOR Q1 2016 in KENSINGTON AND CHELSEA 239 1C GRO Online Indexes General Register Office for England and Wales Entry Number 513506834 Retrieved 22 February 2022 Further reading EditShusha Guppy Fall 1987 Anita Brookner The Art of Fiction No 98 Paris Review Fall 1987 104 External links Edit Wikiquote has quotations related to Anita Brookner Portraits of Anita Brookner at the National Portrait Gallery London Anita Brookner Collection at the Harry Ransom Center at 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