Artist Info
Bernard Meninsky
25 July 1891 – 12 February 1950
Meninsky was born in Karotopin, now in the Ukraine.
Meninsky attended the Liverpool School of Art from 1906.
He won the King’s Medal in 1911 and went on to study briefly at the Royal College of Art in London and the Academie Julian in Paris.
1912-1913 he attended the Slade school of Fine Art.
In 1913 he worked for Edward Gordon Craig at his theatre school in Florence, later returning to teach at the Central School of Arts and Crafts, where he taught painting and drawing from 1913 until 1940 when he moved to Oxford City School of Art; he returned to the Central School in 1945.
He was naturalised as a British Citizen in 1918.
