テート・ギャラリーさんのインスタグラム写真 - (テート・ギャラリーInstagram)「Polish-British painter Josef Herman OBE was born in Warsaw to a Jewish family in 1911. At age 27, Herman's mother dropped him at the train station and told him not to return. He was among more than a generation of eastern European Jewish refugee artists who emigrated to escape persecution. In 1942, he received a letter to say that all his family had died in concentration camps. For eleven years, from 1944, Herman lived and worked in Ystradgynlais, a mining community in South Wales. Recalling his first visit, Herman writes: '...Unexpectedly, as though from no-where, a group of miners stepped on to the bridge. For a split second their heads appeared against the full body of the sun. The whole image was not unlike an icon, depicting the saints with their halos. This image of the miners on the bridge against the glowing sky mystified me for years, with its mixture of sadness and grandeur, and it became the source of my work.' He felt at home immediately in Ystradgynlais and wanted to absorb everything in the village. He found a new voice as an artist, sketching and waving to the miners from 4am in the morning from his window, who he had a tremendous rapport with. They nicknamed him Joe 'bach', meaning small and dear in Welsh—because he was short and also dear to them. Ystradgynlais made an enormous impact on him–the greatest of his whole career. He carried the village, and his memories of the miners, with him for the rest of his life. Josef Herman, Evening, Ystradgynlais 1948, Tate collection 📽️ Click the link in bio to hear Josef's story from his son David. #WorldRefugeeDay」6月21日 0時20分