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Josef Herman

Author: ed. Tom Cross
Category: Monograph
Publisher: The Welsh Committee of the Arts Council of Great Britain
Year: 1962
Subject: Josef Herman, The Eisteddfod, Eisteddfod Gold Medal, Mining Valleys, Oil Painitings
Description: It was chance that brought Josef Herman to Wales and to Ystradgynlais, but it was not chance that made him the first painter to see in this mining valley the raw materials of art: both his instinct and his experience made him recognise instantly the `constructive grandeur` of the village as it spread beneath Craig y Farteg and to respond the `monumental dignity` of the miners and their families.
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