Comments on: So Long, Leon Kossoff https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/07/08/so-long-leon-kossoff/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Thu, 11 Jul 2019 09:43:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Eleanor Bowen https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/07/08/so-long-leon-kossoff/#comment-1297833 Thu, 11 Jul 2019 09:43:02 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=175568#comment-1297833 How fascinating to hear his family history and the responses to his passing.
Leon Kossoff was a true poet. God rest him.
Eleanor Bowen

]]> By: Ron Goldstein https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/07/08/so-long-leon-kossoff/#comment-1297612 Wed, 10 Jul 2019 07:24:08 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=175568#comment-1297612 So sorry to read about the passing of Leon Kossoff.

I write as a 95 year old, who lived as a child in Boreham Street and was very friendly with Leon’s brother Hymie in the 1920’s. We all used to meet up at the family baker’s shop in Peter’s Street just off Brick Lane and I have fond memories of those times.

I offer my condolences to Leon’s family and indeed all the Kossoff’s.

Best regards

Ron Goldstein

]]> By: Marcia Howard https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/07/08/so-long-leon-kossoff/#comment-1297044 Mon, 08 Jul 2019 13:35:31 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=175568#comment-1297044 Not many of us that reach such an age are able to leave such a lasting visual legacy. rip talented man

]]> By: Nicholas https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/07/08/so-long-leon-kossoff/#comment-1297030 Mon, 08 Jul 2019 12:22:46 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=175568#comment-1297030 He leaves us a body of work which has strength of vision few are able to equal.

]]> By: Achim https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/07/08/so-long-leon-kossoff/#comment-1297029 Mon, 08 Jul 2019 12:20:32 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=175568#comment-1297029 So long, Mr Leon Kossoff (1926-2019) — R.I.P:

Love & Peace
ACHIM

]]> By: Helen Breen https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/07/08/so-long-leon-kossoff/#comment-1297012 Mon, 08 Jul 2019 11:22:28 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=175568#comment-1297012 Greetings from Boston,

GA, what a great story of Leon Kossoff, his life, work, and return to the scenes of his childhood in Spitalfields.

Christ Church is such an imposing structure. The artist expressed his fascination with his subject very well:

“The urgency that drives me to work is not only to do with the pressures of the accumulation of memories and the unique quality of the subject on this particular day but also with the awareness that time is short, that soon the mass of this building will be dwarfed by more looming office blocks and overshadowed, the character of the building will be lost forever, for it is by its monumental flight into unimpeded space that we remember this building.” Leon Kossoff, March 1989

]]> By: Hels https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/07/08/so-long-leon-kossoff/#comment-1296939 Mon, 08 Jul 2019 04:23:03 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=175568#comment-1296939 sigh… the end of an era. Leon Kossoff was our direct connection to David Bomberg, Lucian Freud and Frank Auerbach.

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