Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm was an English essayist, parodist and caricaturist under the signature Max.
20 Facts About Max Beerbohm
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Max Beerbohm first became known in the 1890s as a dandy and a humorist.
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Max Beerbohm was the drama critic for the Saturday Review from 1898 until 1910, when he relocated to Rapallo, Italy.
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Max Beerbohm's caricatures, drawn usually in pen or pencil with muted watercolour tinting, are in many public collections.
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Beerbohm was close to four half-siblings, one of whom, Herbert Beerbohm Tree, was already a renowned stage actor when Max was a child.
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Wilkinson, Max Beerbohm later said, "gave me my love of Latin and thereby enabled me to write English".
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Mrs Wilkinson taught drawing to the students, the only lessons Max Beerbohm ever had in the subject.
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Max Beerbohm was educated at Charterhouse School and Merton College, Oxford, from 1890, where he was Secretary of the Myrmidon Club.
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Max Beerbohm began submitting articles and caricatures to London publications, which were met enthusiastically.
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In 1895, Max Beerbohm went to the United States for several months as secretary to his half-brother Herbert Max Beerbohm Tree's theatrical company.
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Max Beerbohm was fired when he spent far too many hours polishing the business correspondence.
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Max Beerbohm never learned to speak Italian in the five decades that he lived in Italy.
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Max Beerbohm's lifelong friend Reginald Turner, who was an aesthete and a somewhat witty companion, saved many of Beerbohm's letters.
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Max Beerbohm was influenced by French cartoonists such as "Sem" and "Caran d'Ache".
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Usually inept with hands and feet, Max Beerbohm excelled in heads and with dandified male costume of a period whose elegance became a source of nostalgic inspiration.
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Max Beerbohm's caricatures were published widely in the fashionable magazines of the time, and his works were exhibited regularly in London at the Carfax Gallery and Leicester Galleries.
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Max Beerbohm responded by saying that, disappointingly for him, he was not.
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Max Beerbohm was knighted by George VI in 1939; it was thought that this mark of esteem had been delayed by his mockery in 1911 of the king's parents, about whom he had written a satiric verse, "Ballade Tragique a Double Refrain".
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Max Beerbohm died at the Villa Chiara, a private hospital in Rapallo, Italy, aged 83, shortly after marrying his former secretary and companion, Elisabeth Jungmann.
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Max Beerbohm was cremated in Genoa and his ashes were interred in the crypt of St Paul's Cathedral, London, on 29 June 1956.