We are excited to introduce this new Audio Adventure, which is designed to share with you the lives of many great artists from our collection and make your morning or afternoon break special, with 5 minutes of engaging history from our curators.
Brief Lives #2 - Jacob Kramer
Jacob Kramer was born into a Jewish family in Klintsy, Russian Empire (now Klincy, Ukraine) in 1892, and immigrated with them to Leeds as a young boy. A precocious talent at the local art school, Kramer studied at the Slade School of Fine Art in London (1913–14), associating with the group of young Anglo-Jewish modernists now known as the Whitechapel Boys, as well as Wyndham Lewis' Blast. He returned to Leeds for the last three decades of his career.
