Hans Feibusch

the long version

Now ninety-seven years old, Hans Feibusch is the only known survivor of those artists exhibited in Hitler's 'Degenerate Art' exhibition of 1937. After emigrating to London in 1933 in the wake of the Nazi persecution of the Jews, Feibusch soon established himself as the driving force behind the revival of mural painting in British churches during the 1930s and 1940s. Published to accompany the first major retrospective of the artist to be held in Britain, this catalogue contains over 100 examples of Feibusch's best work from the last sixty-five years and illustrates the dramatic use of colour which has earned him the description 'the artist of the glowing palette'. Feibusch has always moved independently of contemporary art movements, seeking inspiration instead from the Classical world and the Renaissance. His subjects are figurative and draw on three main themes: mythology, the Bible and the natural world. His bold use of colour, and his sense of the heroic - particularly in his murals - heighten the dramatic nature of his subjects.