Gunther Bloch was born to a Jewish family in Germany in 1916, but little is known about his life and career before immigrating to England in around 1937, where he studied at Leeds College of Art and Regent Street Polytechnic. In 1949 he was included in the First Group Exhibition of German, Austrian and Czechoslovakian Painters and Sculptors at the Wertheim Gallery in London, organised by the Free German League of Culture, and showed three times with Ben Uri Art Society between 1949-52. He was in close contact with the sculptors and gallerists, William and Ernst Ohly, with whom he often visited exhibitions and auctions of indigenous and African tribal art, of which he was a notable collector.
Sculptor and teacher Gunther Bloch was born to a Jewish family in Germany in 1916. Little is known about his life and career before coming to England in around 1937, where he went on to study at Leeds College of Art and at Regent Street Polytechnic. He became a naturalised British citizen in April 1947 at which time he was living at Chalk Farm, in north west London. In 1949 he was included in the First Group Exhibition of German, Austrian and Czechoslovakian Painters and Sculptors at the Wertheim Gallery, organised by the Free German League of Culture and his sculpture was shown three times with Ben Uri Art Society in 1949-52, the 1950 Contemporary Jewish Artists Exhibition of Paintings Sculpture Drawings featuring Bloch's Bison and Embryo, both lent by collectors. He was well acquainted with other émigré artists, and was in close contact with the sculptors and gallerists, William and Ernst Ohly, with whom he often visited exhibitions and auctions. He was a collector of indigenous and African tribal art. Gunther Bloch died in London, England in 2004. His work is not represented currently in UK public collections.
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