Morris kestelman biography
Morris Kestelman
English painter
Morris Kestelman (5 October – 15 June ) was a British artist and teacher. Kestelman was a full-time art teacher and only began exhibiting on a regular basis towards the end of his life and is now best known for the paintings of working people and landscapes he produced during the s and s as well as his later abstract work.[1][2]
Biography
Kestelmans' parents were Jewish immigrants from Russia and he was born and raised in the midst of the Jewish community in Whitechapel in the East End of London, where his father worked as a cabinet maker.[3] Kestelman obtained a scholarship to the Central School of Art and Design in , where his teachers included both A.S. Hartrick and Bernard Meninsky.[4] Meninsky introduced Kestelman, who became a lifelong friend, to the London Group and he, Kestelman, helped with the organization of the Group's exhibition. Hartricks' teaching led Kestelman to an appreciation of Fre Morris kestelman biography children!