11 Facts About Jacques Grinberg

Jacques Grinberg was born in 1941, in Bulgaria, and lived in Sofia during the war years.

On his arrival, Jacques went to school in a kibbutz, and at a young age began studying art at the Avni School in Tel Aviv.

Jacques Grinberg probably was not exposed directly to the horrors of the Holocaust, but the subject was not repressed, certainly not by his father, who already in 1945 had published a book of documents attesting to the attempts of the Bulgarian fascist government to eliminate Bulgarian Jewry and to the involvement of the army and the police in the expulsion and extermination of the Jews of Thrace and Macedonia.

In 1961, Natan Jacques Grinberg published another book in Israel, with a painting by his son on its cover.

Jacques Grinberg was represented by a leading gallery and his paintings were shown in well-regarded exhibitions.

At that time Jacques Grinberg's life was particularly hectic and he briefly struggled with psychiatric issues.

Jacques Grinberg travelled in Mexico and Greece and brought back numerous ideas and works made in those countries.

Jacques Grinberg lived and worked for a while in London.

Jacques Grinberg's work appealed to an enthusiastic audience and enjoyed widespread media coverage.

Jacques Grinberg supported him and organized four solo exhibitions for him between 1988 and 1994.

Jacques Grinberg showed works from this period in the exhibition alongside others including Maryan, Michel Macreau, Paul Rebeyrolle, Antonio Saura, John Christoforou and Bengt Lindstrom.