David Bomberg

1890-1957

Bomberg studied under Walter Sickert at the Slade School. Inspired by the avant-garde Continental painting, particularly Cubism and Futurim, he exhibited with the Vorticists although he turned down Wyndham Lewis’s invitation to become a formal representative of the movement. During the First World War, Bomberg enlisted in the Royal Engineers. His harrowing experiences at the[…]