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Germany (?) - Peter Rossiter, grandson of the artist, states that though the label on the frame gives the title as 'House in Berlin', the the correct title for the work is 'House on Carmerstrasse, Berlin'. He also states that his grandfather died in 1954, not 1952, and that on the list of works compiled by his grandmother, Lotte, the work is dated 1922, not 1924, though Bloch may have conceived it in 1922 and not finished it till the later date.
In 1920, after returning from Spain, Bloch married Lotte and moved into the house on Carmerstrasse in which she was then living. The picture is one of 'a group of works all dated between 1920 and 1923 which depict and celebrate the artist's enjoyment of the interior and a still-life of objects in and around his new home' (Letter from Peter Rossiter, 16 March 2002).
Martin Bloch was born into a middle-class Jewish family in Upper Silesia, now Poland. He worked in Spain, Italy, Germany, Denmark, England, Wales and Normandy. He painted in Berlin in the 1920s and 1930s. He set up a school of painting there with Anton Kerschbaumer in 1923. In 1934 he emigrated with his family to Britain via Denmark to escape Nazi persecution. Though he had recived notification of his naturalisation, he was interned as an enemy alien from June 1940 to January 1941. He had founded the Contemporary School of Painting with Roy de Maistre on arrival in England, and from 1949 he taught at Camberwell School of Art.
Major exhibitions of his work were held in Germany, Britain and America and he is represented in the Tate Gallery, the British and Welsh Arts Councils, in many city art galleries and in public and private collections in Britain, Europe, America and Canada.
Information from notes compiled by Peter Rossiter (the artist's grandson) and Charlotte Grant. | Publisher: | University of St Andrews | Rights holder: | 47795 | Subjects: | CITY painting HOUSE | Temporal: | 1922/1924 | Source: | University of St Andrews | Creator: | BLOCH, Martin | Identifier: | HC833 | Language: | en-GB |
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