Hussein Abbo (1935 – 2005)

Biography: Hussein Abbo studied at Brighton College of Art (1956-60). He worked as a ceramics conservationist at the V&A (1963-4), and as Head Designer for William Comyns Silversmiths (1967-9), and continued work as a designer, sculptor and teacher following a move to California with his family in the late 1970s.
Hussein’s father was the artist Jussuf Abbo (1890-1953), born to Syrian-Jewish parents in Safed, who became an eminent member of the artistic community in Berlin in the 1920s, before being forced to flee with his family and find refuge in London in the early 1930s. Hussein’s two brothers also led creative lives: Jerome was a potter and Claude was a scenery and prop designer/maker for the BBC.