Jack Bilbo

Jack Bilbo (born Hugo Cyril Kulp Baruch, 13 April 1907 –19 December 1967) was a German writer, art gallery owner, and self-taught painter.

Bilbo moved to Weybridge, England after the war ended and created large figurative sculptures in cement in his home's garden.

They were entitled, Life, Devotion, and Sanctuary,[2] and were destroyed when he left England in the early 1950s, moving to France with his wife Owo.

[3] The book is subtitled "The first forty years of the complete and intimate life-story of an Artist, Author, Sculptor, Art Dealer, Philosopher, Psychologist, Traveller and a Modernist Fighter for Humanity".

Yet for all that, there’s also a sense of sophistication, as well as carnivalesque and absurdist humour – from in-jokes about cubism to his fetishistic obsession with women’s buttocks, which become weirdly transformed into all sorts of freaky faces and patterns.