Brief Lives #9 - Alfred Wolmark

Aron Wolmark was born in Warsaw, and moved to England with his family in 1883, first to Devon and then to the East End. He trained at the Royal Academy (from 1895), where he added the English ‘Alfred’ to his name. He had his first solo exhibition at Bruton Galleries in London (1905). Wolmark’s teenage years in London’s East End and two lengthy stays in his native Poland between 1903-6, had a huge visual and spiritual, impact on his early Rembrandtesque work. Despite enjoying success within the Jewish community, Wolmark was rejected from The London Group (1914) and the Royal Academy (1938).