Martin Bloch

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Martin Bloch, A Painter’s Painter is the first publication to comprehensively document the career of a Jewish émigré painter whose atmospheric works record some of the momentous events occurring in Europe in the early 20th century. With an essay by Michael Prodro and catalogue texts by Peter Rossiter, Bloch’s grandson, the book traces the artist’s career from his early work of the 1920s in Spain and Italy, to his images of London bomb damage and the great post-war landscapes. Bloch had great presence as a teacher. Notes from his former students describe an approach to colour and composition that was a feature of his teaching in Berlin, in London at the school he established with Roy de Maistre and his final years at Camberwell School of Art.