BORNFRIEND, JACOB

BORNFRIEND, JACOB (Jakub Bauernfreund; 1904–1976), painter. Bornfriend was born in a Slovak village. Exposed to the art movements of the period between the two world wars, Bornfriend tried and then abandoned impressionism, cubism, and surrealism. He attained a fair standard in each without finding an individual style. In 1939 Bornfriend escaped to England and worked in factories for six years. He returned to his easel with a personality of his own, combining the formal influence of Picasso with the spiritual influence of jankel adler . Bornfriend retained the warmth and bright colors of his early life, combining a sense of strict laws of form with a deep feeling for human pathos. -BIBLIOGRAPHY: Garrett, in: Studio, 145 (1953), 160–3; Roth, Art, 831–3. (Avigdor Dagan)