![]() ![]() After being interned in 1939 on the Isle of Man, he returned to London. He had to flee Germany after campaigning against the Nazis, and eventually settled in London in 1936. ![]() An intense individualist and an anarchist with a complex emotional and intellectual heritage from his German-Jewish family, Bilbo was born as Hugo Baruch in Berlin. His friend Kurt Schwitters described Jack Bilbo as “the art gangster”, and in fact Bilbo claimed to have “carried a gun for Al Capone” in the early 1930s. This visual conversation across two generations presents drawings by Jack Bilbo (1907-67) – self-taught artist, adventurer, author, gallery owner, egotist and legendary bohemian – exhibited alongside works by his grandson Ben Woodeson (born 1965), a contemporary British artist known for making confrontational and often deliberately dangerous sculptures. ![]()
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