Summer Exhibition 2009

david breuer weil

“… a colossal talent ... It is difficult to think of any series of contemporary British paintings more ambitious in form and content than Breuer-Weil’s Project”

 John Russell Taylor, The Times

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Breuer-Weil was born in London in 1965.  He went to the Central Saint Martin 's School of Art in 1985, where he studied under Shelley Faussett, one of Henry Moore's chief assistants.

Later he went to Clare College, Cambridge University where he soon became involved with fringe theatrical and artistic groups. After Cambridge he was awarded a bursary at Sotheby's and he spent the next few years training in different artistic departments and disciplines, starting with Old Master Paintings and ending in the Impressionist and Modern Art Department .  

In the Evening Standard, which featured one of his early large-scale paintings in 1991, he described Sotheby's as "the greatest art school in the world", and there is little doubt that the years he spent in direct physical contact with works by the masters of the past enhanced his knowledge of both technique and his own artistic direction.  

During this period he combined working for an auction house with his own artistic practice. Over the next few years he created a large body of small-scale "Neracian" works on paper, many of these were so small that they are stored in stamp albums. It was also during this period that he developed the personal iconography that would culminate in the Project some years later.

The period 1997-2001 marked the first intensive period of Project painting, and culminated in the exhibition Project 1 at the Roundhouse in Camden Town, an exhibition for which he was hailed by John Russell Taylor of the Times as a "colossal talent"... The much acclaimed Project 2, at the Bargehouse, OXO Tower, London followed in 2003. 

In more recent years the museums have begun to take a strong interest in Breuer-Weil's work, recognising the iconic and extremely relevant nature of much of his imagery.  In 2005 he exhibited with Chris Ofili at "Closing the door? Immigrants to Britain 1905-2005", a topical exhibition on immigration to Britain to mark the centenary of the Aliens Act which was held at the Jewish Museum, London and in 2007 The Ben Uri Gallery, The London Jewish Museum of Art, which has often included works by Breuer-Weil in its mixed exhibitions, staged Project 3, an exhibition of 50 monumental paintings, in an industrial building in Covent Garden, London, recognising Project 3's uniqueness and significant contribution to the history of British and international figurative painting.

David Breuer-Weil lives in London .