George Weissbort
1928 – 2013
‘A vase of Lily of the Valley’
Signed & dated 1945
Oil on canvas and board
74 x 63cm
£450
An accomplished and atmospheric still life study of a vase of Lily of the Valley – note in particular the treatment of the glass vase – a bravura piece of impressionistic painting. Painter George Weissbort was born into a Polish-Jewish family in Belgium in 1928. Fleeing Germany in 1933, his family relocated to England, settling in north London. A chance visit meeting during the war with fellow Hitler émigré’ painter Arthur Segal, sparked the young Weissbort’s lifelong passion for drawing and painting. He studied life drawing under Bernard Meninsky and painting under Ruskin Spear and Rodrigo Moynihan at the Central School of Arts and Crafts. Committed to realism, Weissport developed an in-depth knowledge of art history. He ignored post-war modernism and abstraction, instead exhaustively researching old master techniques, grinding his own pigments and preparing his own varnishes. His oeuvre includes delicate still lives, landscapes, and portraits, all meticulously observed. Notable sitters included the polymath Jonathan Miller and former Chief Rabbi Israel Brodie. Weissbort exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, as well as with the Royal Society of Portrait Painters and the Fine Art Society. He staged shows in France (holding a large exhibition in Paris in 1964), Belgium, Germany, and Mexico. Towards the end of his life, Retrospectives were held at the Chambers Gallery, London and at the Denise Yapp Gallery in Monmouth. Poet and critic Anthony Rudolf observed of his work, ‘To paint in the spirit of Poussin, Chardin, Piero, Vermeer and Holbein in the 21st century’, was, ‘for this painter, a radical project of artistic reclamation and psychic renewal’
The celebrated art critic Brian Sewell, also an admirer of Weissbort, described him as having ‘painted the right pictures at the wrong time’. His work is in UK public collections including the Ben Uri Collection, Guy's & St Thomas' Foundation and Hinckley Council, Leicestershire.
George Weissbort
1928 – 2013
‘A vase of Lily of the Valley’
Signed & dated 1945
Oil on canvas and board
74 x 63cm
£450
An accomplished and atmospheric still life study of a vase of Lily of the Valley – note in particular the treatment of the glass vase – a bravura piece of impressionistic painting. Painter George Weissbort was born into a Polish-Jewish family in Belgium in 1928. Fleeing Germany in 1933, his family relocated to England, settling in north London. A chance visit meeting during the war with fellow Hitler émigré’ painter Arthur Segal, sparked the young Weissbort’s lifelong passion for drawing and painting. He studied life drawing under Bernard Meninsky and painting under Ruskin Spear and Rodrigo Moynihan at the Central School of Arts and Crafts. Committed to realism, Weissport developed an in-depth knowledge of art history. He ignored post-war modernism and abstraction, instead exhaustively researching old master techniques, grinding his own pigments and preparing his own varnishes. His oeuvre includes delicate still lives, landscapes, and portraits, all meticulously observed. Notable sitters included the polymath Jonathan Miller and former Chief Rabbi Israel Brodie. Weissbort exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, as well as with the Royal Society of Portrait Painters and the Fine Art Society. He staged shows in France (holding a large exhibition in Paris in 1964), Belgium, Germany, and Mexico. Towards the end of his life, Retrospectives were held at the Chambers Gallery, London and at the Denise Yapp Gallery in Monmouth. Poet and critic Anthony Rudolf observed of his work, ‘To paint in the spirit of Poussin, Chardin, Piero, Vermeer and Holbein in the 21st century’, was, ‘for this painter, a radical project of artistic reclamation and psychic renewal’
The celebrated art critic Brian Sewell, also an admirer of Weissbort, described him as having ‘painted the right pictures at the wrong time’. His work is in UK public collections including the Ben Uri Collection, Guy's & St Thomas' Foundation and Hinckley Council, Leicestershire.
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