Painter, born in Prague in what is now the Czech Republic, who was originally known as Friedrich Feigl. He studied at Prague’s Academy of Arts, then at Antwerp Academy in 1904–5, and in Paris. Settled in Germany, where he had a show in Berlin at J B Neumann Graphisches Kabinett in 1912, returned to Czechoslovakia, after a year in Palestine, in 1933, but six years later left for England, where he died in London. In 1940 he had a show with Lucy Wertheim’s Gallery, others including one at Ben Uri Art Society, which holds several examples, in 1964.

Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)


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