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Cosmopolis
The Impact of Refugee Art Dealers in London, 26 June - 6 September 2024

Cosmopolis: The Impact of Refugee Art Dealers in London

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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Josef Herman, Two Seated Figures

Josef Herman 1911-2000

Two Seated Figures
pen and ink and wash on paper
9.5 x 14.5
1988-24i
@Josef Herman estate
Photo: Bridgeman images
This image was made on the front of a postcard during Herman's two-and-a-half month visit to Israel at the end of 1952. The artist later recalled that he could not...
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This image was made on the front of a postcard during Herman's two-and-a-half month visit to Israel at the end of 1952. The artist later recalled that he could not stop drawing and produced over 200 drawings in ten weeks, many of them of the Kibbutzniks. The strong, earthy figures and monumental forms show Herman's respect for those who worked the land.This postcard was donated by the addressee, Gustav Delbanco, one of the three eponymous gallerists of Roland, Browse and Delbanco, established in London’s Cork Street by Henry Roland (né Heinz Rosenbaum) and Gustav Delbanco, both refugees of German-Jewish origin, together with Lilian Browse, in 1945. Herman had his first solo show there in 1946 and went on to exhibit with them for almost 30 years. They also exhibited a number of other émigré artists postwar including Jankel Adler, Alfred Cohen, Heinz Inlander and Katerina Wilczynski.
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Presented by Gustav Delbanco 1988 (stamped 03.12.1952)

Literature

Walter Schwabe and Julia Weiner, eds., Jewish Artists: the Ben Uri Collection - Paintings, Drawings, Prints and Sculpture (London: Ben Uri Art Society in association with Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd, 1994), p. 127.
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