Artworks by Josef Herman, including several loose drawings and watercolours, a group of book cover designs, a sketchbook, and an illustrated book.
Glasgow, where he befriended fellow Jewish émigré artists Benno Schotz and Jankel Adler
Poster/card design featuring the slogan ‚To Take Things Seriously Is Fun‘ above a drawing of a bird. Includes the original design and a colour copy on photographic paper.
Glasgow, where he befriended fellow Jewish émigré artists Benno Schotz and Jankel Adler
Documents relating to ‚A Day Eleven Years Long‘, a documentary film produced by John Ormond for BBC Wales (transmission date 12 Sep 1975). Includes draft and final script (the latter inscribed to Herman and his wife from Ormond) and interview transcripts.
Glasgow, where he befriended fellow Jewish émigré artists Benno Schotz and Jankel Adler
‘Cover design for ‘The Passionate Measure’ by Ivan V. Lalić‘, collection owner: Josef Herman, [c.1989] – part of the digitised collection of the Tate Archive
Glasgow, where he befriended fellow Jewish émigré artists Benno Schotz and Jankel Adler
Autobiographical and literary texts written by Josef Herman, ranging from fiction and poetry to more factual memoir and various intermediate forms, though all with an autobiographical element. Herman himself appears to have been unconcerned with generic distinctions. Several of these pieces were republished in revised form in ‚Related Twilights: Notes from an artist’s diary‘ (Robson Books, 1975).
Glasgow, where he befriended fellow Jewish émigré artists Benno Schotz and Jankel Adler
Writings by Josef Herman, including journals, jotter notebooks, and typescripts of autobiographical/literary texts and articles on art and culture.
Glasgow, where he befriended fellow Jewish émigré artists Benno Schotz and Jankel Adler
Two copies of a detached catalogue booklet cover for the 1953 touring Arts Council exhibition ‚Looking Forward: An Exhibition of realist paintings and drawings by contemporary British Artists‘, featuring a reproduction of a drawing by Herman. The exhibition was curated by John Berger and had initially been shown at the Whitechapel Gallery in 1952.
Glasgow, where he befriended fellow Jewish émigré artists Benno Schotz and Jankel Adler
Designs for book covers by Herman, including a mixture of original designs and reproductions.
Glasgow, where he befriended fellow Jewish émigré artists Benno Schotz and Jankel Adler
Artist page for Robert Colquhoun (1914–1962)
The pair shared a house with John Minton and, from 1943, Jankel Adler.
Artist page for Edgar Hubert (1906–1985)
distinctive, might variously be compared to the work of Paul Klee, Ben Nicholson, Jankel Adler
