![]() ![]() īerger was never a formal member of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB): rather he was a close associate of it and its front, the Artists’ International Association (AIA), until the latter disappeared in 1953. ![]() As a statement of political commitment, he titled an early collection of essays Permanent Red. His Marxist humanism and his strongly stated opinions on modern art combined to make him a controversial figure early in his career. He later became an art critic, publishing many essays and reviews in the New Statesman. īerger taught drawing at St Mary's teacher training college. His art has been shown at the Wildenstein, Redfern and Leicester Galleries in London. Career īerger began his career as a painter and exhibited works at a number of London galleries in the late 1940s. ![]() He enrolled in the Chelsea School of Art and the Central School of Art in London. He served in the British Army from 1944 to 1946. Berger was educated at St Edward's School, Oxford. His grandfather was from Trieste, and his father, Stanley, raised as a non-observant Jew who converted to Catholicism, had been an infantry officer on the Western Front during the First World War and was awarded the Military Cross and an OBE. Berger was born on 5 November 1926 in Stoke Newington, London, the first of two children of Miriam and Stanley Berger. ![]()
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