Gerson Leiber

Gerson Leiber (November 12, 1921 – April 28, 2018) was an American painter, lithographer and sculptor.

Biography Gerson Leiber was born November 12, 1921, in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in Titusville, in northwest Pennsylvania. He served in the United States Army and was assigned to its Signal Corps, during World War II. the Kennedy Galleries and The Israel Museum. His work is part of many permanent collections around the world at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian, the Brooklyn Museum, the Malmo Museum in Sweden, the Seattle Museum of Art and others.

In recent years, Leiber and his wife, famous handbag designer Judith Leiber, mounted joint exhibitions of their work both on Long Island and in Manhattan. Leiber died on April 28, 2018, the same day as his wife, who died a few hours later. They were buried together.