John Berger

@Artists, Family and Family ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ John Berger is an English art critic, author and painter British Artists & Painters Artists Poets Novelists Scorpio Celebrities John Peter Berger is an English painter, art critic, essayist, prose writer and a fiction writer. His fictional work on the alienation of the English urban life, sociological writings on the migrant workers who left behind isolated rural communities after they turned to the contemporary economic lifestyle and fictional work on European farmers who are now displaced economically and politically has made him into an intellectually stimulating writer as well as a politically controversial one. He started his artistic life by taking up painting, and his work started to be displayed all over London by 1940s. He then moved on to become an art teacher for a while, which gave him enough time and inspiration to become an art critic and he published many of his critical essays around the same time. But it was finally in the late 50s that he established himself as a fictional writer with his first novel ‘A Painter of Our Time’—piece of work that did not go down very well with the political establishments and yet raised the curiosity in the literary world. But Berger went on to write all the more controversial and debatable novels and won Booker Prize award for one of his greatest works, ‘G’. One of Berger’s famous novel ‘Ways of Seeing’ has been adapted as a television series by BBC. Berger is also a script writer and has written many critically acclaimed movies.

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Birthday: November 5, 1926 Nationality: British Famous: Artists & Painters, Artists, Poets, Novelists Siblings: Jacob Berger, Katya, Yves Known as: John Peter Berger Childrens: Jacob, Katya, Yves Universities: St Edward's School Oxford Chelsea College of Art and Design Information Detail Birthday November 5, 1926 Nationality British Famous Artists & Painters, Artists, Poets, Novelists Siblings Jacob Berger, Katya, Yves Known as John Peter Berger Childrens Jacob, Katya, Yves Universities St Edward's School Oxford Chelsea College of Art and Design Birth Place London Borough of Hackney Gender Male Father S.J.D. Berger Mother Miriam Branson Sun Sign Scorpio Born in London Borough of Hackney Famous as Novelist

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Berger’s first marriage was childless. He has two children from previous relationships and, and has a son, Yves, with his present wife Beverly Bancroft. His other children are: Jacob - is a famous film director and Katya — a writer and a film critic. Unsplash Personal Life

John Berger was born in Hackney, London, to S.J.D. Berger who was an infantry officer on the western front at the time of World War I. Berger also served in Army in from 1944 for two years. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

After serving in army for two years, Berger went to the Chelsea School of Art and the Central School of Art in London. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

In the late 1940s, Berger established himself as a painter and his work started to exhibit in various galleries in London. Painting is one of his great passions and he never left painting for the rest of his life. Unsplash Career

Berger took up teaching art in 1948 and continued it until 1955 and in the course of it he also tried his hand at the art criticism. He published many of his critical essays and reviews in the New Statesman. Unsplash Career

With his painting abilities, critique acumen and strong opinionated political stances, time was ripe for Berger to publish his work as a writer. In 1958, his first novel ‘A Painter of Our Time’ got published. Unsplash Career

1962-1964 was the time when Berger came up with more of his fictional work - even though his first novel was still into controversy. ‘The Foot of Clive’ and ‘Corker’s Freedom’ were his next books based on alienation of urban English life. Unsplash Career

‘Ways of Seeing’ came out in 1972 and the same year hen BBC adapted it into a four part television series. ‘Ways of Seeing’ made Berger a big name and his criticism of western cultural aesthetics was critically appreciated. Unsplash Career

‘Ways of Seeing’ is considered as one of Berger’s most important works. The series and book looks into the depth of traditional Western cultural aesthetics. Unsplash Major Works

‘G.’, a fictional novel set in Europe, based on the life of a Casanova who eventually gains the political perception, is considered as one of his finest works. The book fetched him the Booker Prize and James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Unsplash Major Works

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Birthday	November 5, 1926
Nationality	British
Famous	Artists & Painters, Artists, Poets, Novelists
Siblings	Jacob Berger, Katya, Yves
Known as	John Peter Berger
Childrens	Jacob, Katya, Yves
Universities	St Edward's School Oxford Chelsea College of Art and Design
Birth Place	London Borough of Hackney
Gender	Male
Father	S.J.D. Berger
Mother	Miriam Branson
Sun Sign	Scorpio
Born in	London Borough of Hackney
Famous as	Novelist

John Berger

British

Nov 5, 1926

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London Borough of Hackney