JACOB BORNFRIEND (1904 – 1976) (Czech)
“Fruit & Flowers”
Oil on Canvas.
20” x 16” (508 x 406mm). Signed IMAGE
“Christmas
Still Life”
Gouache
over Pencil
4
¼” x 6 ½” (109mm x 164mm)
Overall
framed size 10 ½” x 12 ½” (265mm x 318mm)
Prov:
Original painting sent as a Christmas card to Heinz (Henry) Roland
of
the London Cork Street Gallery Roland, Browse & Delbanco
where
Bornfriend exhibited many of his paintings from the
1950s onwards
(With
dedication from the Artist inside)
Framed
using ultra-violet low reflect glass IMAGE IMAGE
Jacob Bornfriend
was a painter in oil and tempera, mainly of landscape and still life. He was born in Zborov,
Czechoslovakia and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague under Willi
Nowak. All his early work was lost when
he moved to England in 1939. He changed his name from Bauernfriend
and spent four years working in factories before he could return to
painting. An expressionist, he was
influenced to some extent by cubism. In
1950 he has his first London solo exhibition at Roland, Browse and Delbanco. He painted a large mural for the Jews'
College, London in 1957 having done mural work in Czechoslovakia. He also exhibited at in Prague, Gothenburg
and Sweden. Work by Jacob Bornfriend is in the permanent collection of the Modern Art
Gallery, Prague; the National Museum of Moravia and Slovakia; the Gothenburg
Museum, The Tate Gallery, Southampton City Art Gallery and several colleges at
Oxford. His work has been reproduced in Studio, Contact, Review, 45, London;
Zivot, Prague; Les Arts Plastiques,
Brussels and Svenska Hem, Stockholm. He lived in London.
