Jacob Kramer: Creativity and Loss - Hardcover

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This is the first biography of a significant artist difficult to 'pigeon hole' in the history of twentieth-century British art. A Jewish immigrant, Kramer was a contemporary of David Bomberg, Mark Gertler and Bernard Meninsky, as well as such rising names as C. R. W. Nevinson and William Roberts, but he was not interested in joining artist groups or movements. Yet he brought a distinctive style, energy and simplicity of design to the British art scene; as one critic has commented, there is a quality in his art that remains defiantly Eastern European.
Despite his Slade training and friendships - his teachers at the Slade were McEvoy, Tonks and Wilson Steer - Kramer lived most of his life in Leeds with his mother and sisters, with occasional forays to London. In Yorkshire, he became a close friend of the critic Herbert Read, and was a pivotal figure on the Leeds cultural scene.
In his early work Kramer sought, through reductive, stylised images, to explore what it meant to be Jewish. These uncompromisingly spare, sometimes bleak, paintings did not at first meet with universal favour or understanding. Kramer's work is to be found in public and private collections, notably Tate Britain, the National Portrait Gallery, Leeds City Art Gallery and the University of Leeds, many being illustrated in this book.

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