In 2014, England & Co collaborated on a solo exhibition of Bilbo’s works at the David Zwirner Gallery, London and in 2017 liaised with the artist Daniel Richter when he curated an exhibition of Bilbo’s works and ephemera at the Max Liebermannhaus/ Stiftung Brandenburger Tor in Berlin to accompany an exhibition of his own work. Jack Bilbo, Art and Common - Sense : Illustrated with 6 Drawings, Common - Sense series, 2 ( London : Modern Art Gallery, June 1944 ) ( source : Merry. Some drawings depict his bizarre, sometimes sexual, and often violent fantasies: they emerged from doodles and improvisations and reflect his obsessions.Įngland & Co have represented the Estate of Jack Bilbo since 1988, when they held the first of several exhibitions about Bilbo and the artists of his 1940s gallery. Painter, sculptor, draughtsman and huger-than-life gallery owner, born in Berlin, Germany, as Hugo Baruch, of German-Jewish and English-Jewish parents. Bilbo’s satiric drawings with their ironic captions convey his deeply felt political ideas – he took the role of an outsider in his life and work, and was a passionate and irreverent social critic. Many of Bilbo’s drawings reflect the socialist outlook and anti-capitalist views he shared with other German artists such as George Grosz and John Heartfield. Jack Bilbo (1907-67) was born Hugo Baruch in Berlin. Bilbo eventually returned to his native Berlin where he opened a bar and gallery. After the war, he moved to Weybridge where he created giant primitive figures in cement, which were later dynamited after he moved on to France in the early 1950s. After internment in 1939 on the Isle of Man, Bilbo returned to London and founded the Modern Art Gallery in 1941 where he showed works by Picasso and Schwitters alongside unknown artists.

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