10 Facts About Frederick Etchells

Frederick Etchells was an English artist and architect.

Frederick Etchells was a contributor to the Omega Workshops, but was one of those breaking away with Wyndham Lewis; this breakaway began the Rebel Art Centre, with the Rebel Art Movement, somewhat akin to the Dadaists in Paris.

However William Roberts later painted Frederick Etchells holding the copy of BLAST in his work "The Vorticists at the Restaurant de la Tour Eiffel, Spring 1915".

Roberts wrote to Frederick Etchells wanting to confront Lewis about his prominence in the authorship of the magazine, to which Frederick Etchells declined since he no longer wanted anything to do with it.

Frederick Etchells later translated another book of Corbusier's Urbanisme, which in its English translation became The City of Tomorrow.

Frederick Etchells gradually moved into architecture after a period of book publication, with the Haslewood Press.

Frederick Etchells had close associations with John Betjeman who wrote his obituary.

Frederick Etchells was an active member of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings and a founding member of the Georgian Group.

Frederick Etchells lived there between 1939 and 1944, having moved out of London.

Frederick Etchells was married to Hester Margaret Sainsbury who was a book illustrator, painter and artist known for her performances to music.