David Bomberg Enter a
feeling, not
a gallery.
Choose a mood and the room itself answers — the light cools or warms, the air changes pace, and only the works that carry that feeling step forward from the dark. Everything else recedes into shadow.
David Bomberg
Early Life and Artistic Training Born: Birmingham, United Kingdom (December 5, 1890) Died: London, United Kingdom (August 19, 1957) One of the 'Whitechapel Boys' – a group of East End artists who emerged in the early 20th century. Born to Polish-Jewish immigrant parents, Abraham and Rebecca Bomberg, initially studied at the City and Guilds Technical Art School before training as a lithographer in Birmingham. Studied under
Walter Sickert at Westminster School of Art (1908-1910), influenced by Sickert's focus on form and urban life. Significant exposure to Paul Cézanne through the 1910 Roger Fry exhibition "Manet and the Post-Impressionists." Attended the Slade School of Art (1911), winning the Tonks Prize for his drawing of fellow student Isaac Rosenberg. The Avant-Garde Years: Cubism, Futurism, and Controversy At the Slade, Bomberg was part of a r…