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Leon Kossoff
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British
, 1926–2019)
Leon Kossoff
Study after Cezanne's Portrait of Achille Emperaire,
1988
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Biography
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1926
Born in City Road, Islington, London
1938 - 1943
Attended Hackney Downs (Grocers) School, London
1943 - 1945
Commercial Art Course at St Martin’s School of Art, London
1943
Attended life drawing evening classes at Toynbee Hall and St Martin’s School of Art London
1945 - 1948
Military Service with Royal Fusiliers, attached to 2nd Battalion Jewish Brigade, served in Italy, Holland, Belgium, and Germany
1949 - 1953
Studied at St Martin’s School of Art and evening classes at Borough Polytechnic, London, with David Bomberg (1950-52)
1953 - 1956
Studied at Royal College of Art, London
1959 - 1969
Taught at Regent Street Polytechnic, Chelsea School of Art and St Martin’s School of Art, London
For a portrait of Leon Kossoff at 20 21 Photo Gallery
Lives and works in London, England
Exhibitions
2004
Leon Kossoff - Selected Paintings 1956-2000, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek (solo)
2003
Bacon-Freud-Kossoff-Auerbach - Gemälde und Arbeiten auf Papier, Galerie Sander, Berlin, Germany
2001
Leon Kossoff, Annandale Galleries, Sydney, Australia (solo)
Drawn to Painting: Leon Kossoff Drawings and Prints after Nicholas Poussin, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra (solo)
2000
Auerbach, Bacon, Freud, Kossoff, Blains Fine Art, London
Close Encounters: New Art from Old, National Gallery, London
Poussin Landscapes by Kossoff, J.Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (solo)
La mirada fuerte: pintura figurativa de Londres, British Council in association with other museums
Drawn to Painting: Leon Kossoff Drawings and Prints after Nicholas Poussin, Los Angeles County Museum of Art Los Angeles, CA (solo)
Leon Kossoff, Mitchell-Innes & Nash New York, NY (solo)
1998
L'Ecole des Londres de Bacon à Bevan, Foundation Dina Vierny & other locations Paris, Santiago, & Vienna
1996
Leon Kossoff, Tate Gallery London, England (solo)
From London: Bacon, Freud, Kossoff, Andrews, Auerbach, Kitaj, British Council in association with the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh; Musée de l’Etat - Staatsmuseum, Luxembourg; Musée Cantonal de Beaux-Arts, Lausanne; Fundacio Caixa de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
1995
Leon Kossoff, British Pavilion, Düsseldorf Kunstverein,Stedelijk England, Germany, & Amsterdam (solo)
Identità e Alterità / Identity and Alterity: Figures of the Body 1895-1995, XLVI Venice Internat'l Biennale & other locations Venice, Italy
1994
Visual Excitement: een pleidooi voor de schilderkunst (in defence of painting), Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam
Helen Lessore: Artist and Art Dealer, Theo Waddington Fine Art, London
Dobbel Virkelighet / Double Reality, Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst Oslo, Norway
An American Passion: The Susan Kasen Summer and Robert D. Summer Collection of Contemporary British Painting, McLellan Galleries, Glasgow; Royal College of Art, London
1993
Seven British Painters: Selected Masters of Post-War British Art: Michael Andrews, Frank Auerbach, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, David Hockney, R.B. Kitaj, Leon Kossoff, Marlborough Fine Art, London
Drawing on these Shores: A View of British Drawing and Its Affinities, Harris Museum and Art Gallery Preston, Ipswich, Bath, & Brighton
Leon Kossoff: Drawings 1985-1992, Anthony d'Offay Gallery & LA Louver Gallery London, England & Venice, CA (solo)
1992
British Figurative Painting of the 20th Century, British Council, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1991
Freud, Kossoff, Tate Gallery London, England
1988
Leon Kossoff: Recent Paintings, Anthony d'Offay Gallery & Robert Miller Gallery London, England & New York, NY (solo)
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