Henryk Gotlib

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Henryk Gotlib or Henry Gottlieb (born January 10, 1890 in Krakow , † December 30, 1966 in South Godstone , Surrey ) was a Polish painter , sculptor and writer .

Life

Henryk Gotlib studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow under Wojciech Weiss and, at the request of his parents , at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow. Because of the anti-Semitism of his fellow students , he left Krakow after two years and went to Vienna (1911-1913), then to Munich , where he studied from April 27, 1915 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich in the drawing school Angelo Jank . When the First World War broke out , he volunteered for the Austrian army and worked most of the time in the press department in Warsaw . Gotlib returned to Krakow in 1919 and became a leading member of the Polish avant-garde formist movement.

Between 1923 and 1929 Gotlib lived in France , mainly in Paris , and exhibited his works in the Salon d'Automne , Salon de Tuileries and Salon des Indépendants . In the 1930s he established himself as an influential writer and teacher in Poland. In the following years he lived and worked in Italy , Greece and Spain ; and met his future wife, Janet Marcham, in 1938 while visiting London . Gotlib was traveling around Cornwall in the late summer of 1939 when World War II broke out and stayed in England until his death. During his first years in England he belonged to the artist group London Group , whose members included Walter Sickert , Wyndham Lewis , Henry Moore , Vanessa Bell , Paula Rego and Paul Nash . In the 1940s Gotlib taught at the College of Art in London and later as a lecturer at the School of Art in Hampstead.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1921 Galerie Caspar , Berlin
  • 1922 Van Gogh Gallery , Amsterdam
  • 1926 Montparnasse Gallery , Paris

literature

  • Travels of a Painter (1938)
  • Polish painting (1942)

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