David Bomberg

David Bomberg, around 1925

David Garshen Bomberg (born December 5, 1890 in Birmingham , † August 19, 1957 in London ) is one of the most important and influential British painters of the 20th century.

Life

Bomberg was the fifth of the eleven children of the leather worker Abraham Bomberg (1867 / 8-1938) and his wife Rebecca (nee Klan or Klein, 1863 / 4-1912). He came from an originally Polish - Jewish immigrant family. In 1895 the family moved to Whitechapel in the East End of London, where he began training as a lithographer when he was 15 . Between 1908 and 1910 Bomberg studied art history at the Westminster School of Art under Walter Sickert . In order to finance his studies, he worked as an assistant in the studio of John Singer Sargent , who urged him to continue his studies at the renowned Slade School of Fine Art .

David Bomberg, Jerusalem 1924

A scholarship from the Jewish Education Aid Society enabled him to continue studying at the Slade School (1911–1913). During this time he met Paul Nash , Stanley Spencer , Ben Nicholson , Mark Gertler and Isaac Rosenberg , among others .

In 1913 Bomberg traveled to France with Jacob Epstein , where they met André Derain , Amedeo Modigliani and Pablo Picasso , among others ; their influence can be found in his later works. After the First World War he stayed in Palestine (1923–1927), Morocco (1930), Greece (1930), Russia (1933) and Spain (1934–1935). From 1945 to 1953 he worked as a teacher at London South Bank University , among his students were Frank Auerbach , Dennis Creffield , Leslie Marr , Gustav Metzger and Leon Kossoff .

literature

Bomberg: paintings, drawings, watercolors, and lithographs. Fischer Fine Art Ltd., London 1973.
Richard Cork: David Bomberg. Yale University Press, New Haven London 1988, ISBN 0-300-04194-2 .

Web links

David Bomberg (British, 1890-1957). artnet.de
David Bomberg on the website The Color of Tears: The First World War from a painter's perspective
David Bomberg artist-info.com

Individual evidence

^ William C. Lipke: David Bomberg: A Critical Study of His Life and Work . Evelyn, Adams & Mackay, 1967, pp. 25 (English): "David Bomberg was born, the fifth child of Abraham and Rebecca Klein Bomberg ..."
^ Richard Cork: Bomberg, David Garshen (1890-1957). In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of 2004, accessed July 30, 2020. “ was the fifth of the eleven children ”.

personal data
SURNAME	Bomberg, David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Bomberg, David Garshen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British painter
DATE OF BIRTH	December 5, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH	Birmingham
DATE OF DEATH	August 19, 1957
Place of death	London

[1] William C. Lipke: David Bomberg: A Critical Study of His Life and Work . Evelyn, Adams & Mackay, 1967, pp. 25 (English): "David Bomberg was born, the fifth child of Abraham and Rebecca Klein Bomberg ..."

[2] Richard Cork: Bomberg, David Garshen (1890-1957). In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of 2004, accessed July 30, 2020. “ was the fifth of the eleven children ”.