- Hardcover: 224 pages
- Publisher: Robson Books Ltd (3 April 1975)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0903895226
- ISBN-13: 978-0903895224
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,198,227 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The distinguished painter Josef Herman left his native Warsaw shortly before the war. He lived and worked in many places since, and his friends numbered many well-known artists. In Related Twilights the same qualities of seriousness of purpose and profound humanity which permeate his paintings lend eloquence to his word-pictures of the people, places and events that shaped his life and art. The first part of the book is a vivid evocation of his childhood and adolescence in the now-vanished, colourful Yiddish-speaking quarter of Warsaw, and of his fruitful years in Scotland, London and Wales - where some of his best-known work was done. The second part consists of lively reminiscences of those places, visited or lived in, that enriched Herman's instinct for draughtsman-ship and nourished his artistic imagination: Burgundy, Andalusia, Israel, Amsterdam, New York, Mexico. Both parts are illustrated with Herman's drawings, many of which have never before been seen. The artists whom Herman discusses in the third part of the book are included for the qualities that were particularly meaningful to his own artistic self-revelation. Among those discussed are Derain, Millet, Courbet; Americans Ryder and Hartley; Sironi and Morandi; Permeke; Gotlib; Klee; Epstein; the Mexican artists Siqueiros, Rivera and Orozco. Like so many painters, past and present, Herman found writing necessary to express those ideas and atmospheres which - due to their literary and anecdotal nature - cannot find their way into the medium of painting. Related Twilights is an important book not only for admirers of his paintings, but for all those who enjoy good writing imbued with humanity and understanding.
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Josef Herman was born in Warsaw and arrived in Britain in 1940. His first exhibition was held in Glasgow in 1942; his first exhibition in London in 1943. In 1944 he moved to the Welsh mining village of Ystradgynlais which inspired some of his best-known work, and where he stayed until 1955. He exhibited regularly at Roland, Browse and Delbanco in London and abroad. He had retrospective exhibitions at Wakefield City Art Gallery in 1955, the Whitechapel Art Gallery in 1956, Glasgow in 1975 and the Camden Art Centre in 1980. In 1962 he received a gold medal for services to art in Wales; he was made an O.B.E. in 1981 and elected to the Royal Academy in 1990. Herman has work in the following public collections: Arts Council; British Council; British Museum; Victoria and Albert Museum; Tate Gallery; National Museum of Modern Art, Edinburgh; National Museum of Wales, Cardiff; Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea; National Gallery of Melbourne; National Gallery of Wellington; National Gallery of Auckland.
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