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Anthony Gross (Anthony Imre Alexander Gross) was born on 19 March, 1905 in Dulwich, London, England, is a British printmaker. Discover Anthony Gross's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 79 years old?

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Age 79 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 19 March 1905
Birthday 19 March
Birthplace Dulwich, London, England
Date of death 8 September, 1984
Died Place Le Boulvé, France
Nationality London, England

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1905

Anthony Imre Alexander Gross (19 March 1905 – 8 September 1984) was a British printmaker, painter, war artist and film director of Hungarian-Jewish, Italian, and Anglo-Irish descent.

Anthony Gross was born in 1905, at Dulwich, London, the son of the Hungarian cartographer and founder of Geographia Ltd, Alexander Gross (1880–1958), and suffragette Isabelle Crowley (1886-1938).

His sister was the artist, writer and publisher Phyllis Pearsall.

1922

He attended Shrewsbury House School and later Repton School until 1922, and from the following year studied at the Slade School of Fine Art under Henry Tonks.

Later studies were at the Central School of Art and Crafts, London, the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, and the Academia de San Fernando, Madrid.

1925

In 1925 he studied within life classes and as an engraver at Académie Julian and Académie de la Grande Chaumière, Paris.

1928

Following study, Gross painted and produced intaglio prints in Spain, painted in Brussels, and in 1928 returned to work in Paris, and other parts of France, working entirely from life.

While in France he developed a working relationship with Józef Hecht and Stanley William Hayter.

1930

During the early 1930s he exhibited in Paris galleries, becoming a member of the La Jeune Gravure Contemporaine, designed costumes and settings for ballet, and worked with composer Tibor Harsányi.

Gross had married Villeneuve fashion artist Marcelle Marguerite Florenty in 1930; their children were Mary (b. 1935) and Jean-Pierre (b. 1937).

1934

He co-directed the short film La Joie de vivre with Hector Hoppin in 1934.

Returning to Britain in 1934, Gross worked on animated films, illustrated a 1929 edition of Jean Cocteau's Les Enfants Terribles and became an art director for London Films.

1937

In 1937 he returned to work in Paris.

1940

In 1940 he brought his family from France to England, to live at Flamstead, Hertfordshire.

Through advocacy by Eric Kennington to the War Artists' Advisory Committee, Gross was offered, and accepted, the role of an official war artist, and produced etchings and oil and watercolour paintings of English coastal defences and troop training.

1941

In 1941, with a temporary commission of captain, Gross was attached to the 9th Army and painted within the Egyptian, Syrian, Palestinian, Kurdistan, Lebanese, and Mesopotamian theatres of war, sometimes accompanied by other war artists Edward Ardizzone and Edward Bawden, and later documenting the 8th Army's North African Campaign.

1943

From 1943 he transferred to India and Burma to witness the front line battle against the Japanese; these works were the subject of a one-man exhibition at the National Gallery when he returned to England.

1944

Later, in 1944 and 1945, an exhibition of 51 of these drawings, entitled India in Action, toured Australia, New Zealand and the United States.

Gross accompanied the D-Day invasion of Northern France, wading ashore near Arromanches at 2pm on D-Day.

He sketched the beachhead landings and spent the night in a slit trench on the beach before moving inland the next day.

Gross recorded the devastation of Bayeux and Caen, and followed the Allied armies to Paris and then into Germany.

1945

He witnessed the meeting of American and Russian forces at the River Elbe on 25 April 1945.

Gross was, at the time, one of the many war artists who painted a portrait of General Montgomery.

1948

From 1948 to 1954 he was a life drawing tutor at the Central School of Arts and Crafts, afterwards becoming Head of Printing at the Slade School of Fine Art.

From 1948 to 1971 Gross's work was exhibited in London and New York in one-man shows and as part of The London Group.

1950

Following the war, Gross returned to working in London, in Chelsea, Greenwich and Blackheath, while in the mid-1950s working partly in Le Boulvé.

He produced lithographs for J. Lyons and Co., and illustrated editions of Wuthering Heights and The Forsyte Saga.

1954

In 1954 he designed the dust jacket for the first edition of Lord of the Flies.

1965

In 1965 he became the first president of the Printmakers Council.

In 1965-66 Gross was a Minneapolis School of Art visiting professor.

Gross's works held in public collections include the British Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, University of Leeds, Leeds Museums & Galleries, Scarborough Art Gallery, Huddersfield Art Gallery, Imperial War Museum and the Tate Gallery, London, and the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford;

the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne;

Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna;

Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand;

the South African National Gallery, Cape Town;

the Kunstmuseum, Basel;

the National Gallery of Norway, Oslo;

the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Stockholm;

the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa;

1979

He became an honorary member of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers in 1979, the same year being elected as an Associate of the Royal Academy; becoming a Senior Academician in 1981, and receiving an CBE in 1982.