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Harry Kernoff (Harry Aaron Kernoff) was born on 9 January, 1900 in London, England, is an Irish painter. Discover Harry Kernoff'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 74 years old?

Popular As Harry Aaron Kernoff
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Age 74 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 9 January, 1900
Birthday 9 January
Birthplace London, England
Date of death 25 December, 1974
Died Place Meath Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
Nationality London, England

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1900

Harry Aaron Kernoff (9 January 1900 – 25 December 1974) was an Irish genre-painter.

He depicted Dublin street and pub scenes and Dublin landmarks, as well as producing landscapes, woodcut illustrations, portraits, and set designs.

Harry Aaron Kernoff was born in London on 9 January 1900.

His parents were Isaac and Katherine Kernoff (née Bardanelle).

His father was Russian and worked as a furniture maker, and his mother was from an old Spanish-Jewish family.

Kernoff served as an apprentice cabinet maker with his father, and attended a London primary school.

He showed an early interest in art.

1914

The family moved to Dublin in May 1914, and Kernoff enrolled for night classes at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art.

1920

He developed an interest in modernism and the avant-garde movement in the 1920s, but returned to realism for his works documenting social life in both rural and urban Irish settings.

He frequented the Palace Bar on Fleet Street, and would trawl Dublin pubs looking for more portrait subjects.

1923

In 1923, Kernoff won the Taylor scholarship and became a full-time day student.

Kernoff was influenced by Seán Keating, Patrick Tuohy, and Maurice MacGonigal.

He painted the Irish landscape, genre scenes, and portraits.

He was particularly interested in drawing streetscapes, buildings and people of Dublin.

He is noted for his awareness of the effect of unemployment in Dublin which he documented in paintings such as Dublin kitchen (1923).

1926

From 1926, he exhibited with the Royal Hibernian Academy, continuing to do so until his death and being elected a member in 1936.

His studio was based at Stamer Street, Dublin, from where he painted portraits of leading literary and theatre figures, including Brendan Behan, Hilton Edwards, F. R. Higgins, James Joyce, Flann O'Brien, Sean O'Casey, and W. B. Yeats.

Kernoff preferred to finish his portraits in a single sitting, and was a prolific painter.

From 1926 to 1958, he held an annual solo show in Dublin.

Kernoff was a member of the Studio Art Club and the Radical Club.

Kernoff executed the decorative design of the Little Theatre in South William Street, Dublin.

He was the set designer for Sean O'Casey's The shadow of a gunman and Lord Dunsany's The glittering gate.

1928

His work was part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1928 Summer Olympics.

1930

Kernoff was a member of the Friends of Soviet Russia, with his woodcuts used to illustrate labour and republican newspapers throughout the 1930s and 1940s.

He also designed the masthead of The Irish Workers' Voice. In 1930, Kernoff visited Leningrad and Moscow with the Friends of Soviet Russia.

He was actively involved in anti-fascist campaigns in Dublin.

1931

Kernoff visited Paris in 1931, where he exhibited Metro, Paris, and Place de Tertre.

In the same year he had a one-man show at Gieve's Gallery, London, exhibiting Ukraine peasant.

1935

He was one of the illustrators of the Cuala Press A Broadside second and third series in 1935 and 1937.

1938

Kernoff exhibited at two world fairs, Glasgow in 1938, and New York in 1939.

1940

From the 1940s onwards, Kernoff favoured small canvases, painting miniature oils in the hundreds.

1942

He published his first book of woodcuts in 1942, followed up with A storyteller's childhood in 1946.

1953

He was among the Irish artists featured at the contemporary Irish art exhibition at Aberystwyth, Wales in 1953.

1957

Kernoff travelled to Nova Scotia in 1957, spending a year painting there.

1964

He exhibited watercolours in Lugano, Italy, and Toronto, Canada in 1964 and 1965.

1965

Four of his portraits of W. B. Yeats were exhibited as part of the National Gallery of Ireland Yeats centenary exhibition in 1965.

He sat on the arts advisory committee of the Municipal Gallery of Modern Art for a number of years.

1974

He was elected a life member of United Arts Club, Dublin in 1974.

Kernoff died on 25 December 1974 in Meath Hospital, Dublin.

1975

The National Library of Ireland hold his papers which were deposited by his sister, Lena Kernoff, in 1975.