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Aubrey Beardsley was a writer, painter and poet. Aubrey Beardsley was born in Brighton, United Kingdom on August 21, 1872. Death is recorded on March 16, 1898, at the age of 25. Schooling on record includes Brighton Hove and Sussex Sixth Form College.
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
- Occupation
- writer / painter / poet / illustrator / poster artist
2. Background
- University
- Brighton Hove and Sussex Sixth Form College
3. Links
4. About this entry
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- Last updated
- 2026-06-21
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.
Frequently asked questions
When was Aubrey Beardsley born?
Born August 21, 1872.
When did Aubrey Beardsley die?
Died March 16, 1898, aged 25.
Where was Aubrey Beardsley from?
Aubrey Beardsley was from Brighton, United Kingdom.
What did Aubrey Beardsley do?
Aubrey Beardsley worked as writer, painter, poet, illustrator, poster artist.
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