Genre
Painting, drawing, prints.
Uses extreme impasto, so thick that the paint at times seems modelled rather than brushed.
CV
Born 1931 in Berlin. Lives and works in London.
1939 | Moved to England as a refugee from Nazism; British citizen | 1948 - 1952 | Studied at St. Martin’s School of Art, London | 1952 - 1955 | Studied at the Royal College of Art, London | 1956 - 1968 | Taught at various Art Academies | 1986 | Prize at the Venice Biennale |
Solo exhibitions (selection) 2002 | Athens, Frissiras Museum | 2001 | London, Royal Academy of Arts | 1998 | Oslo, Astrup Fearnley Museum | | New York, Marlborough Gallery | 1997 | London, Marlborough Fine Art | 1996 | Los Angeles, Leslie Sacks Fine Art | | Sydney, Rex Irwin | 1995 | London, National Gallery | | San Francisco, Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery | 1994 | New York, Marlborough Gallery | 1991 | New Haven, Yale Center for British Art | 1990 | Missouri, Saint Louis Art Museum | | London, Marlborough Fine Art and Graphics | 1989 | Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum Vincent Van Gogh | 1987 | London, Marlborough Fine Art | 1986 - 1987 | Madrid, Centro de Arte Reina Sofia | | Essen, Museum Folkwang | | Hamburg, Kunstverein | 1983 | London, Anne Berthoud Gallery | | London, Marlborough Fine Art | 1982 | New York, Marlborough Gallery | 1979 | New York, Bernard Jacobson | 1978 | London, Anthony d’Offay Gallery | | London, Arts Council, Retrospective | | London, Hayward Gallery, Edinburgh,
Fruit Market Gallery | 1976 | Zurich, Marlborough Galerie | 1975 | Dublin, Municipal Art Gallery | 1974 | London, Marlborough Fine Art | 1973 | Milano, Galerie Bergamini | | Colchester, University of Essex | 1972 | Sydney, Viliers Fine Art | | Melbourne, Toorak Gallery | 1971, 1969,
1967, 1965 | London, Marlborough Fine Art | 1963, 1962,
1961, 1959,
1956 | London, Beaux-Arts Gallery |
Group exhibitions (selection) 2004 | London, National Gallery, Making Faces | | London, James Hyman Fine Art, The Challenge of Post-War Painting | 2003 | Warsaw, Zentrum für Zeitgenössische Kunst Schloss Ujazdowski, Von Picasso bis Warhol | | Kendal, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, The Enduring Image | | Madrid, Marlborough, Escuela de Londres | 2002 | Wolfsburg, Kunstmuseum, Blast to Freeze- Britische Kunst im 20. Jahrhundert | 1986 | Venice, Biennale, British Pavilion |
Collections (selection)
Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo
British Museum, London
Frissiras Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Portrait Gallery, London
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Tate Gallery, London
Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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