Bernard
Meninsky, the son of Jewish parents from the Ukraine, was born in
Liverpool in 1891. He studied at the
Liverpool School of Art and the Slade School
of Art (1912-13). This was followed by a year in Florence with
the artist, Gordon Craig.
Like many young men of Jewish descent,
Meninsky joined the Royal Fusiliers in London.
Three battalions of this mainly Jewish regiment fought with General
Edmund Allenby in Palestine.
In 1918 he was recruited as an official war artist and most of his
paintings dealt with soldiers saying good-bye on railway stations.
After the Armistice Meninsky became
a member of the London Art Group and taught at the Westminster School
of Art and the City of Oxford Art School. Bernard Meninsky died in
London in 1950.
Bernard
Meninsky, On the Departure Platform (1918)
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