Klaus Meyer, Family photograph, (in memoriam 1942), 1982
Woodcut and linocut
Meyer was born in Berlin on September 16, 1918. His father was a doctor and his mother a painter. In the 1930s his father was banned as a Jew from practising medicine and died, a broken man, in 1937. As the situation worsened for Jews in Berlin, Meyer fled to London in 1938 to join his elder brother, composer Ernst Meyer, and his sister. He enrolled at the Central School of Art to study graphics.
At the outbreak of the Second World War, Meyer was refused entry into the Army. In 1940 he was taken to a prison camp in Shropshire and later interned as an enemy alien on the Isle of Man. Here, he spent his time drawing portraits on pieces of wallpaper and illustrating a newsletter. After his release, he worked as a commercial artist on propaganda posters. In 1942 he married Celia Petszaft, a fellow refugee from Poland.
Meyer enrolled in the Slade where he studied painting and printmaking and then taught at the Kilburn Polytechnic in 1960s and 1970s. He was an accomplished paint and printmaker and held exhibitions with themes ranging from the ponds at Hampstead Heath to scenes from German and English literature.
Works by Klaus Meyer in other collections
Tate Collection
from Superimpositions (P12447-P12454; complete)
[no title] 1987
Woodcut and linocut on paper image: 34.0 x 25.5 cm on paper, print
Presented by the artist's family 2004
P12447
Tate Collection
from Superimpositions (P12447-P12454; complete)
[no title] 1987
Woodcut and linocut on paper image: 34.0 x 25.5 cm on paper, print
Presented by the artist's family 2004
P12448
Examples of other works by Klaus Meyer can be viewed at the Tate on line collection:
https://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ArtistWorks?cgroupid=999999961&artistid;=6872&page;=1
Added:
16th Feb 2011
Subjects:
Art and Design, Citizenship, Design and Technology, Geography, History, PSHE, Religious Education
Key Stages:
Foundation, Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3
Keywords:
Art, teaching packs, history, immigration, judaism, jewish, contemporary, london, international, sculpture, photography, painting, education, primary, secondary, drawing, movement
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