About Charles Lutyens
Lived 1933 – 2021 (aged 87–88). Charles Lutyens was a British artist, sculptor, mosaicist and art therapist.
Charles Lutyens (1933–2021) was an English artist and art therapist.
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. ) community, a kibbutz-style group of people living in London, with his studio in Fulham. during 1963–68, at the newly consecrated St Paul's Church, Bow. This was undertaken in collaboration with the church's architect Robert Maguire. 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.
Lutyens moved away from the Fabyc community in London to Oxford in 1978. then at Gloucester Cathedral, and finally more permanently at Liverpool Cathedral in the Derby Transept.
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, and the Wildenstein Gallery in New York. in Beckenham, southeast London.
Lutyens was married twice, first to Ariane Laparra (1958–61) and later to Marianna Rothauer-Ennser (1970–2021). He had two children from each marriage.
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Who was Charles Lutyens?
English artist and art therapist (1933–2021)
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Charles Lutyens was born in 1933 in London.
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Charles Lutyens died in 2021.
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Charles Lutyens was an artist, sculptor, mosaicist and art therapist.
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