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Born in Hampstead, London, on 19 March 1908, he was the youngest of four children born to the celebrated artist, Sir William Rothenstein and his wife, Alice Knewstub.
Printmaker, painter, maker of reliefs, designer and teacher. He studied at Chelsea Polytechnic and Central School of Arts and Crafts, 1924-7. Had first one-man show at Matthiesen Gallery in 1938 and during World War II participated in the Pilgrim Trust Recording Britain project.
In 1954 founded a graphic workshop in Great Bardfield, Essex, home to such artists as Edward Bawden and John Aldridge.
Rothenstein won first prize in the Giles Bequest Competition for colour woodcuts and lino-cuts in 1954 and 1956.
He went on to teach printmaking at Camberwell School of Art and was Art Fellow at Sheffield University in 1962.
Rothenstein published a number of books, including Frontiers of Printmaking, 1966, Relief Printing, 1970, Suns and Moons, 1972, and the folio Song of Songs, 1979.
Rothenstein showed in major London galleries and had a retrospective at Stoke on Trent City Museum and Art Gallery, and touring, 1989-90. Posthumous exhibitions included Flowers Graphics, 1995, Braintree District Museum, 1996, and in 2004 a show at Gainsborough's Housed, Sudbury, of Rothenstein's prints, entitled An Exotic Menagerie, and Michael Rothenstein - Printmaker at Fry Art Gallery, Saffron Walden.
Tate Gallery, Victoria and Albert Museum, British Museum and Museum of Modern Art in New York hold his work. Made Hon. RE and elected RA, 1983. |
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