Photo: Frederick H. Evans / Public domain (source: Wikimedia Commons)
My Take
Aubrey Beardsley is one of those artists who burned impossibly bright and brief. Dead at twenty-five, he still managed to define a whole visual language, those razor-sharp black-ink lines borrowed from Japanese woodcuts, dripping with decadence and the grotesque. I admire how fearlessly he leaned into the erotic and the unsettling while Wilde and Whistler circled the same aesthetic movement. There is a thrilling recklessness to his work, the sense of an artist racing against his own mortality. More than a century on, his drawings still feel transgressive, and that staying power is, to me, the truest mark of genius.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Aubrey Beardsley
- Name (Japanese)
- オーブリー・ビアズリー
- Reading
- おーぶりー・びあずりー
- Born
- August 21, 1872 – March 16, 1898
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Leo / Monkey
- Origin
- Brighton, United Kingdom
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- writer / painter / poet / illustrator / poster artist
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Brighton Hove and Sussex Sixth Form College
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
Frequently asked questions
When was Aubrey Beardsley born?
August 21, 1872 – March 16, 1898.
Where is Aubrey Beardsley from?
Aubrey Beardsley is from Brighton, United Kingdom.
What does Aubrey Beardsley do?
Aubrey Beardsley works as writer, painter, poet, illustrator, poster artist.
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-21
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.