Charles Lutyens
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Born | 1933 London, England |
Died | April 2021 (age 87) |
Nationality | British |
Education | Bryanston School |
Alma mater | Chelsea School of Art Slade School of Fine Art Saint Martin's School of Art |
Known for | Mosaic; oil painting; sculpture |
Notable work | Angels of the Heavenly Host (1963–68) The Outraged Christ (2011) |
Style | Figurative art |
Spouses | Ariane Laparra
(m. 1958; div. 1961)Marianna Lutyens (m. 1970) |
Children | 4 children |
Parents |
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Relatives | Edwin Lutyens (great uncle) |
Patron(s) | St Paul's, Bow Common Liverpool Cathedral |
Website | charleslutyens.co.uk |
Charles Lutyens (1933–2021) was an English artist and art therapist.[1][2]
Lutyens was born in London, England. His father was Ernest Lutyens, an officer in the Coldstream Guards, and his mother was Naomi Lutyens, who was a publicity officer at the Old Vic Theatre in south London.[1] Lutyens was educated at Bryanston School in Dorset, where he decided to become an artist. He then studied art at the Chelsea School of Art, Slade School of Fine Art, and Saint Martin's School of Art in London, where he studied oil painting and sculpture. Subsequently, at the age of 24, he studied in Paris under the cubist painter André Lhote.[3] He worked mainly using oil paint, but also mosaic and sculpture using clay, stone, and wood. After his studies, in 1958, Lutyens joined the "Fabyc" ("Families by Choice"[4]) community, a kibbutz-style group of people living in London, with his studio in Fulham.[1]
He worked on a large 800 square-foot mosaic mural, Angels of the Heavenly Host,[5] during 1963–68, at the newly consecrated St Paul's Church, Bow.[6][7][8] This was undertaken in collaboration with the church's architect Robert Maguire.[9] The mosaic used tesserae consisting of 700 different colours sourced by Lutyens from the island of Murano, near Venice and known for its glass-making.[1] It is probably the largest contemporary mosaic in Britain and the largest created by one person.[3]
Lutyens moved away from the Fabyc community in London to Oxford in 1978.[1] Having trained for a diploma in art therapy at the Hertfordshire College of Art and Design in St Alban's, he worked as an art therapist at Oxford's Radcliffe Hospital, the Littlemore Hospital, and Harlow House in High Wycombe.
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His 15-foot wooden, iron, and steel crucifixion sculpture The Outraged Christ[8] of 2011 was exhibited at St Paul's in Bow,[10] then at Gloucester Cathedral, and finally more permanently at Liverpool Cathedral in the Derby Transept.[11]
He had a studio in Charlton-on-Otmoor, a village in Oxfordshire. He exhibited in joint and individual exhibitions, for example at the Hollerhaus Gallery in Munich (Germany), St Martin's Gallery in London,[12] and the Wildenstein Gallery in New York.[1] His work is held in private collections in France, Germany, Republic of Ireland, Spain, United Kingdom, United States, and Zimbabwe. In 2024, a retrospective exhibition of Lutyens' oil paintings in the context of his work as an art therapist, A World Apart: The Work of Charles Lutyens, was held at the Bethlem Museum of the Mind[13] in Beckenham, southeast London.[14][15][16][17]
Lutyens was married twice, first to Ariane Laparra (1958–61) and later to Marianna Lutyens (1970–2021).[1] He had two children from each marriage.
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g Lutyens, Marianna (11 July 2021). "Charles Lutyens obituary". The Guardian.
- ^ Lutyens, Marianna (Winter 2022). "Artist Charles Lutyens Remembered" (PDF). The Lutyens Trust – Newsletter. UK: The Lutyens Trust. pp. 9–10. Retrieved 3 September 2024.
- ^ a b Ross, Duncan (2015). "The present church of St. Paul's, Bow Common" (PDF). cloudfront.net. pp. 86–151. Retrieved 2 September 2024.
- ^ Kuester-Ginsberg, Catherine (1972). "How One's Choice (of a Way of Life) may Become a Repressive Authority". Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics. 20 (3/4). Living together – Therapeutic and Social Aspects: Proceedings of the 8th International Congress of Psychotherapy, Milan, August 25–29, 1970, Part II: 96–101. JSTOR 45114226.
- ^ "Charles Lutyens: Angels of the Heavenly Host". Art+Christianity. Retrieved 3 September 2024.
- ^ Murray, Keith (Spring 1990). "Introduction to Lutyens' Mosaic". Churchbuilding. London.
- ^ Lutyens, Charles (2012). "Angels of the Heavenly Host". Journal of the British Association for Modern Mosaic (BAMM). 6.
- ^ a b "Crucifixiones de Charles Lutyens" [Crucifixions of Charles Lutyens]. Ersilias (in Spanish). Retrieved 2 September 2024.
- ^ Adler, Gerry (12 February 2019). "Obituary: Robert Maguire (1931–2019)". Architects' Journal.
- ^ Lutyens, Marianna (2011). "Charles Lutyens Exhibition – "Being in the World"". UK: The Lutyens Trust. Retrieved 3 September 2024.
- ^ "The Outraged Christ by Charles Lutyens". Art In The Cathedral. UK: Liverpool Cathedral. Retrieved 2 September 2024.
- ^ "Paintings by Charles Lutyens: 18th June – 30th June". London: St. Martin's Gallery. 1962. Retrieved 2 September 2024.
- ^ "A World Apart: the Work of Charles Lutyens: Observations of an art therapist". Exhibitions. UK: Bethlem Museum of the Mind. 8 June 2024. Retrieved 3 September 2024.
- ^ "Artist's work in psychiatric hospitals on show". BBC News. UK: BBC. 4 May 2024. Retrieved 3 September 2024.
- ^ Smallman, Etan (6 June 2024). "The visionary who gave dignity to the mentally ill: A new exhibition at Bethlem's Museum of the Mind reveals how Charles Lutyens became the trailblazer for art therapy". The Telegraph. UK. Retrieved 3 September 2024.
- ^ Noble, Will (3 June 2024). "This Psychiatric Hospital Art Gallery Has A Striking New Exhibition On The Way". Londonist. Retrieved 3 September 2024.
- ^ Mansfield, Ian (11 June 2024). "Capturing the human psyche: Charles Lutyens' paintings at Bethlem Museum of the Mind". ianVisits. UK. Retrieved 3 September 2024.
External links
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- Charles Lutyens website archived on Archive.org
- 1933 births
- 2021 deaths
- People from London
- People educated at Bryanston School
- Alumni of Chelsea College of Arts
- Alumni of the Slade School of Fine Art
- Alumni of Saint Martin's School of Art
- 20th-century English sculptors
- 21st-century English sculptors
- 20th-century English painters
- 21st-century English painters
- English male painters
- English male sculptors
- English muralists
- Art therapists
- Mosaics
- Lutyens family