(b Kraków, 1890; d Godstone, Surrey, 30 Dec 1966). Polish painter, draughtsman, printmaker and writer, active in England. He came from a middle-class Jewish family in Kraków. From 1908 to 1910 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków and, due to pressure from his parents, read law at the university there. He continued both his art and law studies in Vienna (1911–13) and later became a pupil of Angelo Jank at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich (1913–14). At the end of World War I he joined the Society of Polish Artists, who organized his first one-man show in Warsaw (1918). The following year he returned to Kraków and became a leading member of the avant-garde Formist movement. From 1923 to 1929 he lived and worked in France, participating in exhibitions at the Salon d‘Automne, the Salon des Tuileries and the Salon des Indépendants. In 1930 he returned to Poland and joined the Group of Ten. From 1933 to 1935 he again lived abroad, spending long periods in Italy, Greece and Spain, though he continued to exhibit regularly in his native country. During a visit to London in 1938, he met his wife, who was a native of Scotland, and the following year, with the outbreak of World War II, he settled in England, where he remained for the rest of his life (except for a year spent teaching in Poland in 1949–50). In 1940 he was invited to join the London Group, which then had no other foreign members. From the 1940s onwards Gotlib exhibited extensively in Britain, where his works are well represented in public collections.