David Bomberg

David Bomberg Garshen ( 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

David Bomberg was the seventh of eleven children of a Polish- Jewish immigrant family. 1895 the family moved to Whitechapel in the East End of London, where he began as a 15 -year-old trained as a lithographer. Between 1908-1910 studied Bomberg art history at the Westminster School of Art under Walter Sickert. To finance his studies, he worked as an assistant in the studio of John Singer Sargent, who advised him strongly to continue studying at the prestigious Slade School of Fine Art.

Through a grant from the Jewish Education Aid Society was able to continue her studies (1911-1913) at the Slade School. During this time, he met Paul Nash, Stanley Spencer, Ben Nicholson, Mark Gertler and Isaac Rosenberg know.

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