Born into a family of art merchants, Nat Leeb’s interest in painting was sparked at a young age. He attended the Strasbourg School of Decorative Arts from 1920 to 1923. In 1926, he received an award for one of his posters and in 1928, he exhibited his paintings at the Librairie des arts in Strasbourg. While his early known works were strictly figurative, he later turned to expressionism and showed sensitivity to avant-garde movements. In 1951, he exhibited at the Galerie Charpentier. By the 1940s and 1950s, his paintings had become abstract, textured, and intensely colorful. In 1965, he met art merchant Lawrence Jeppson (1926-2019) who organized several exhibitions of his works in the United States. Two important exhibitions were dedicated to him in the 1980s, one at the Quadrat Museum of Bottrop and the other at the Städtische Kunstsammlung in Eschweiler.
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