Bomberg, David (Garshen) (1890-1957)

English painter and founder member of the London Group. He applied forms inspired by cubism and Vorticism to figurative subjects, treating them as patterns of brightly coloured interlocking planes in such early works as The Mud Bath (1914; Tate Gallery, London). After World War I he turned to landscape painting. Moving away from semi-abstraction in the mid-1920s, his work became more representational. He gained recognition only towards the end of his life.