The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 25, 2024
The Painter Otto Freundlich
1929
(German, 1876–1964)
Image: 28.5 x 20.6 cm (11 1/4 x 8 1/8 in.); Paper: 28.5 x 20.6 cm (11 1/4 x 8 1/8 in.); Mounted: 54.8 x 44.8 cm (21 9/16 x 17 5/8 in.)
Gift of Holly and James Bogin 2017.307
Location: not on view
Description
Otto Freundlich (German, 1878-1943) co-organized the first Dada exhibition in Cologne in 1919, but in 1925, he transitioned to abstract painting and sculpture. Although Sander probably shot this portrait in Germany, Freundlich spent most of his time after 1925 in France. Of Jewish descent, in 1943 he was sent to a concentration camp and murdered on the day of his arrival.- Sander, August, Susanne Lange, Gabriele Conrath-Scholl, and Gerd Sander. Menschen des 20. Jahrhunderts: ein Kulturwerk in Lichtbildern eingeteilt in sieben Gruppen = People of the 20th century : a cultural work of photographs divided into seven groups = Hommes du XXe siècle : une œuvre culturelle de photograhies divisée en sept groupes. New York: Distributed by H.N. Abrams, 2002.
- {{cite web|title=The Painter Otto Freundlich|url=false|author=August Sander|year=1929|access-date=25 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2017.307