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Refugees

josef herman obe ra (1911 – 2000)

Discover Josef Herman OBE, a British painter known for bold shapes & portraits of working people. Explore his impactful style & legacy in art history.

Ben Uri Gallery and Museum (London, United Kingdom)

Refugees is a rare, important early painting, thought lost for over 60 years. Herman destroyed the majority of work from this period in 1948, considering it too influenced by Chagall. Blue was the dominant colour of Herman’s Glasgow years, used as a nostalgic evocation of a lost Warsaw with its moonlit spires. Like much of Herman’s Glasgow work, this painting draws strongly on his eastern European Jewish heritage and themes. However the refugees also represent the wider displacement of peoples uprooted and forced into exile by the upheavals of the Second World War. The family’s unknown fate is symbolized by the cat with a mouse dangling from its jaw. The treatment of the figures reflects Herman’s admiration for Käthe Kollwitz, while the fearful child with her hand in her mouth is reminiscent of Goya.

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Titel: Refugees
Kunstner: josef herman obe ra
År: 1941
Oprindelige mål: 47.0 x 39.0 cm
Format: Portrait
Ophavsretlig status: Beskyttet af ophavsret
Udstillet hos: Ben Uri Gallery and Museum
Farveintensitet: Monochromatic
Oplevet lysstyrke: balanced

Refugees

josef herman obe ra (1911 – 2000)

Ben Uri Gallery and Museum (London, United Kingdom)

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