Bernard Cohen (painter)

Bernard Cohen (born July 28, 1933 in London ) is a British painter and printmaker . He is the younger brother of the painter and computer scientist Harold Cohen .

life and work

Bernard Cohen first studied at St Martin's School of Art and then from 1951 to 1954 art at the Slade School of Fine Art . He won a grant from the French government in 1954 and spent a year in Paris , where he was under the artistic influence of Jean Dubuffet .

His early works were heavily influenced by American Abstract Expressionism , particularly Jackson Pollock .

From 1959 he taught at the Ealing School of Art , from 1966 to 1968 at the Chelsea School of Art , from 1967 to 1973 and from 1977 at the Slade School of Fine Art and from 1975 to 1977 at the Royal College of Art . In 1980 he became head of painting at the Wimbledon School of Art , where he stayed until 1987. In 1988 he became Slade Professor of Fine Art and Chair of Fine Art at the University of London . In 1969/1970 he was visiting professor of fine arts at the University of New Mexico , Albuquerque . Cohen lives in London.

He had solo exhibitions in 1960 at the Royal Society of British Artists (RBA) and in 1961 at the New Marlborough Gallery in London. His work gained international attention in the 1960s, and he was invited to take part in documenta III in Kassel in 1964.

Retrospectives were held in 1972 at the Hayward Gallery , London, and in 1995 at the Tate Gallery , London. Ten of his works are part of the Tate Gallery's collection.

literature

• documenta III. International exhibition. Catalog. Volume 1: Painting and Sculpture. Volume 2: hand drawings. Volume 3: Industrial Design, Graphics. Kassel, Cologne 1964.

Web links

• Flowers Galleries: Works by Bernard Cohen
• artinfo: Works by Bernard Cohen
• Materials by and about Bernard Cohen in the documenta archive