Artist and teacher Morris Weidman was born into a Jewish family in London, England in 1912. He studied at Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts (1926-29), assisted by the Jewish Education Aid Society (which had helped many of the 'Whitechapel Boys' including David Bomberg and Mark Gertler, almost two decades earlier). He studied subsequently at the Royal College of Art (1929-32), then assisted the sculptor Bainbridge Copnall for two years on the RIBA reliefs at Portland Place (1932-34), before going on to teach at several schools including Northgate Grammar School and Ipswich and Wirral grammar schools. After the Second World War, Weidman settled in Tunbridge Wells in Kent and taught at Tunbridge Wells School of Art, where his pupils included Humphrey Ocean RA - a post he held until retirement. His work was exhibited at the New English Art Club and at Ben Uri Gallery in the Autumn Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Sculptures by Contemporary Jewish Artists in 1945.
Morris Weidman died in Kent, England in 1992. His work was shown posthumously at Ben Uri Gallery in Characters from the Bible (1998) and in Israeli Artists and Scenes from the Ben Uri Collection - Landscapes of Israel at Etz Chayim, touring to WIZO, in the same year. In 2002 Ben Uri Gallery and Weidman's family helped organise the exhibition 'Responding to the Holocaust' at Hendon Church Farmhouse Museum, which art historian David Buckman described as 'stark and jagged paintings by the artist drawn from his two series Prisoners and Auschwitz' (David Buckman, 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company). In the UK Weidman's work is held in the Ben Uri Collection.
