1969
54cm x 74cm
21″ x 29″
Framed
Signed
SOLD
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Born in London, Gabriel Weissmann came to painting at the age of fourteen when admiring works by modern painters such as Picasso, Klee, Kandinsky and Jackson Pollock and further developed his interest in art by contact with established living artists.
He was exhibiting locally in Hampstead, while attending Quintin Grammar School, before studying at Chelsea Art School from 1963 to 1967, graduating with BA (Fine Art) Upper 2nd Hons.
He was well known for a series of LSD paintings in the mid-sixties. In his graduation year he painted Brain Drain canvas, one of the representatives of the psychedelic period. The work featured in the touring exhibition Les Sixties: France et Grande Bretagne 1960-1973 in Paris, 1996 and in Brighton, 1997.
Since then he regularly exhibited paintings and photographs, represented in private collections in Great Britain, Japan and the USA, as well as practising as a graphic designer. In the late sixties, Gabriel Weissmann continued to use spray-can lines, influenced by Bernhard Cohen’s Art Nouveau-derived spray paintings. They were an insight and one of the first expressions of what would become known in the early 1980’s as Graffiti Art.
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