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Leon Engers Kennedy
Born: 22 February 1891 in Antwerp, Belgium Died: 6 July 1970 in Port Washington, New York.
An article in the 8 April 1923 issue of the Indianapolis Star Sun talks about Crowley and Leon Engers Kennedy's Psychochrome Paintings.
Born Simeon Leon Engers in Antwerp, Belgium. In the summer of 1911 he met with Crowley in Paris. On 23 September 1912 Engers joined the A∴A∴. His magical motto was T.A.T.K.A. On 30 June 1913 Engers has the degree of Prince Patriarch Grand Conservator, Order of the Ancient and Primitive Rite of Memphis and Mizraim, conferred upon him.
Engers dropped out of site for the next several years to focus on his education. During this period he completed four years at the Académie Julian (1910-1914), where he studied under the French painter and sculptor Jean Paul Laurens (1838-1921). In 1916 he earned his Ph.D. from the University of Berlin.
On 3 January 1917 Engers arrived in New York from Rotterdam, Holland. In November of 1917 Crowley arranged for an exhibition of Enger's psychochrome paintings and later published a review of them in December 1917 issue of The International. Engers also provided the artwork for the covers of the October and December issues of The International. Engers had another exhibition of his Psychochrome paintings in February 1919 at a gallery called The Paint Box.
On 21 March 1919 Engers portrait of Crowley was reproduced in Crowley's Equinox Vol. III, No. 1. On 8 May 1919 Engers married Catherine Elizabeth Reilly (26 March 1895-4 February 1959).
During the 1920s, Engers studied at the Bahaus under the German-American expressionist Lyonel Feininger. On 27 October 1928, Engers emigrated on a French visa from Cherbourg to New York and moved in with his in-laws. His work at this time focused on still lifes and more conventional portraits. On 31 January 1949 he obtained his U.S. citizenship.
From 1942 to 1938, Engers served on the faculty of the Stella Elkins Tyler School of Fine Arts at Temple University in Philadelphia. Thereafter, he joined the faculty of Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois, where he later became the art department's director in 1954.
On 6 July 1970 Engers died at Meadowbrook Hospital in Port Washington, New York.
Advertisement for an exhibition of Kennedy's Psychochromes at The Paint Box, 43 Washington Square, New York. (from The Greenwich Village Quill, February 1919)
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circa 1918
Kennedy's Psychochrome Painting of Kitty Reilly
Kennedy's Artwork for the Cover of the
Kennedy's Artwork for the Cover of the
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