Josef Herman

Born in Warsaw in 1911, Josef Herman's early life was deeply shaped by his Polish-Jewish heritage and Yiddish culture. He trained as a typesetter and graphic designer at the Warsaw School of Art, skills that would subtly inform the strong forms and minimal details of his later painting style. The looming threat of World War II and Nazi persecution forced Herman to flee, first to Brussels in 1938, then to France, and finally to Great Britain in 1940, where he would spend the…