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Biography

Martin Bloch (1883-1954) was a German-Jewish artist who came to Britain as a refugee in 1934. Influential as a colourist and teacher, his paintings: dynamic still lifes, landscapes, and cityscapes, often with figures, are found in public and private collections in Britain, America, Europe and Israel.

Bloch was born in November 1883 in Neisse, then a German town in Upper Silesia, now Nysa, Poland.

 Although the family were Jewish, Bloch and his brother attended a Catholic Gymnasium.  Hoping to become an artist, and unwilling to enter the family lace-making business, Bloch moved to Berlin in 1902.

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Initially he studied architecture, then aesthetics with Heinrich Wolfflin in Munich.  By 1907 he was back in Berlin, taking drawing classes with Lovis Corinth, a leading member of the Berlin Secession. In 1912 he was living and painting in Paris, centre of European Modernism.

In 1914 Bloch travelled to the South of France, and then Spain, where he li