Leon Kossof (1926)

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The life of this artist's seemingly nothing remarkable: in 1943 he enrolled in art school, SW, Martin, and attended evening classes at Toynbee Hall. After army service in 1949, he returned to the school of St. Martin, where from 1950 to 1952. dealt with separately by David Bomberg. At it influenced other disciple Bomberga - Frank Auerbach. In the works of these hudozhnkov there is a significant stylistic similarities, in particular, pastoznost painting.
In 1959 he began teaching at the Polytechnic Institute s Regent Street, in art school in Chelsea and at St. Martin. Soon followed a series of exhibitions - solo and group, on which his work side by side with the works of Auerbach, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud.
In 1996, Tate was organized by his big retrospective.