Historic drawings of hospital patients by a prolific artist and designer have been unearthed.
The three portraits are by artist Jules Weinberg, from Macclesfield, who had his own fashion business in the town and regularly held exhibitions of his work in the town in the 1940s and 1950s, including West Park Museum.
Sadly Jules - who studied at Macclesfield Art School and ran Jules’ Salon on Park Lane - suffered a brain tumour and died aged just 39 in 1965.
But now his brother Martin has found a charming collection of illustrations among his belongings and wants to reunite them with their subjects.
Martin, 76, says Jules drew them while being treated for rheumatic fever in hospital in Macclesfield in 1958. Notes made on the drawings identify the men as Mr Daughtery, Mr Lomax and Mr Roberts.
Martin, of Gawsworth Road, Broken Cross, said: “My brother was a Macclesfield artist who shared a hospital ward with these gentlemen when he was very ill and being treated for rheumatic fever.
“The ward was K3 and the hospital was either the old West Park Hospital or the old Macclesfield Infirmary on Cumberland Street.
“I’m curious if there are family members still around who would like to have the pictures. They could be a memento of their loved one, drawn by my brother who was a beautiful person tragically taken from us. Jules always drew whatever was around him, and painted oil and water colours. He was a prolific and eclectic artist.”
Martin found the illustrations while he was going through his brother’s artwork for an upcoming exhibition in the town.
The exhibition is being curated by Basil Jeuda, from Macclesfield, to mark the 75th anniversary of the opening of a synagogue at Charles Roe House and in recognition of the Jewish families who moved to Macclesfield from London during the Second World War.
Jules, whose full name was Judah Julius, was part of the Jewish Weinberg family who moved to the town in 1942.
He worked for H&I Franklin clothing company which was one of the Jewish companies to relocate to Macclesfield before starting his own fashion business.
Martin said: “We thought it would be a great idea to include Jules’s work in the exhibition which will celebrate the people associated with the Jewish families who came to Macclesfield.”
