Born: 5 December 1890 Birmingham, England
Died: 19 August 1957 (aged 66) London, England
Movement: Vorticism, Cubism, Futurism
Bomberg was one of the most audacious of the exceptional generation of artists who studied at the Slade School of Art; Bomberg painted a series of complex geometric compositions combining the influences of cubism and futurism in the years immediately preceding World War I;
typically using a limited number of striking colours, turning humans
into simple, angular shapes, and sometimes overlaying the whole painting
a strong grid-work colouring scheme. Whether because his faith in the machine age had been shattered by his
experiences as a private soldier in the trenches or because of the
pervasive retrogressive attitude towards modernism in Britain Bomberg
moved to a more figurative style in the 1920s and his work became
increasingly dominated by portraits and landscapes drawn from nature. Gradually developing a more expressionist technique he travelled widely through the Middle East and Europe.
Works: 
Vision of Ezekiel, 1912, oil on canvas. Tate Gallery.
The Mud Bath, 1914, Tate Gallery.
Tregor and Tregoff, Cornwall, 1947, Tate Gallery
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