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Josef Herman

The Letter, c. 1940

Josef Herman

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50 Years

50 Years

LONDON Cork Street

5 Feb – 29 Feb 2020

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Josef Herman

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Polish born artist Josef Herman is perhaps best known for his transcendent images of coal miners, fishermen and farm workers from Wales, Scotland and Suffolk, capturing the dignity of ordinary people and a reverence for the quiet beauty in everyday life.

Born in Warsaw in 1911, into a poor family in the Jewish slum area, eldest of three children, his formal education finished at the age of 12. He was encouraged to study art, seeing that he had real talent for drawing. Evening classes with Professor Slupski led to being admitted in 1930 to the Warsaw School of Art and Decoration which he could hardly afford and left after 18 months. He continued drawing and painting in his spare time and in 1932 had his first exhibition in Warsaw in a framers shop, showing mostly large expressionistic watercolours featuring peasants in sombre colours.

He has been shown extensively, abroad - in 1956 had a retrospective in public galleries in Melbourne and Auckland. He was shown on smaller scale in Switzerland, Germany and the USA - New York hosted two exhibitions during the eighties. His work has been displayed in many British Council group exhibitions all over the world. He was awarded OBE for his services to British art in 1981, in 1990 became a Royal Academician and in 1992 received the Silver Medal for his services to Welsh Arts

In 2014 Herman was included in the group exhibition Refiguring the 50s at Ben Uri Gallery. The show examined the work of five figurative artists working in Britain in the 1950s, who each had a strong identification with the place in which they chose to live and work and which formed, for a significant part of their careers, the primary focus of their practice. For Herman, this was Ystradgynlais in South Wales with its indigenous mining community.

Selected Work

Untitled (Fishermen)

Josef Herman

Untitled (Fishermen), 1985

Oil on canvas

Scene from Burgundy (grape pickers)

Josef Herman

Scene from Burgundy (grape pickers), 1968

Oil on canvas

Nude

Josef Herman

Nude, 1987

Oil on board

Carrying The Sack

Josef Herman

Carrying The Sack, 1965

Oil on board

Overlooking the Valley

Josef Herman

Overlooking the Valley

Oil on canvas

Group of Fishermen

Josef Herman

Group of Fishermen, 1980

Oil on board

Miners

Josef Herman

Miners, 1950

Oil on board

Scene in Cool Twilight

Josef Herman

Scene in Cool Twilight, 1977

Oil on canvas

Miner

Josef Herman

Miner, 1963

Oil on canvas

Women and Children

Josef Herman

Women and Children, 1950

Oil on canvas

Untitled (Three black trees against a Blue Sky)

Josef Herman

Untitled (Three black trees against a Blue Sky)

Watercolour on paper

Two Standing Peasants and Woman

Josef Herman

Two Standing Peasants and Woman

Ink on paper

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