Abraham Neumann

Maison bord de mer, Paris, 1899

Jerusalem (1923)

Street

Abraham Neumann (born February 6, 1873 in Sierpc , Russian Empire ; died June 4, 1942 in the Krakow ghetto ) was a Polish painter .

Life

Neumann went to Warsaw at the age of seventeen and worked for a photographer. 1897-1902 painting, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in the time to Austria-Hungary belonging Krakow and held in 1903 at the Académie Julian in Paris on. He toured Great Britain , Belgium , the Netherlands and Germany , made one trip to the United States and two trips to Palestine . Neumann had his studio in Zakopane . He mainly painted landscapes, only a few still lifes and portraits.

After the German occupation of Poland, Neumann was imprisoned in the Krakow ghetto and, like his artist colleague Mordechaj Gebirtig, shot by the Germans during a resettlement campaign in 1942 . In Thomas Keneally's novel Schindler's List , both Neumann as a Polish impressionist, alongside the philosophers Leon Steinberg and Dr. Mentioned Rappaport.

Exhibitions (selection)

The following oil paintings were shown at the 38th exhibition of the Vienna Secession in 1911 .

Japanese still life (picture in catalog)
The blue vase
Winter morning
Winter sun
sunflowers
Lonely pine tree by the lake
In June

In the United States in 1921 he exhibited 20 pastel pictures with landscapes or cityscapes in the New York “Mussmann Gallery”. Among other things, you can see:

Late afternoon (Late Afternoon)
Old house in Sandomirz (Old House in Sandomirz)
Flowering trees in Chabowka (Blossoming Trees in Chabowka)
A lake in the High Tatras (A Sea in the High Tatras)

literature

Neumann, Abraham . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 25 : Moehring – Olivié . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1931, p. 410 .
Andrea Löw, Markus Roth: Jews in Krakow under German occupation 1939–1945. Wallstein, Göttingen 2011.
Tadeusz Pankiewicz : The pharmacy in the Krakow ghetto. Translation by Manuela Freudenfeld. Herbig, 1997, ISBN 3-7766-7038-X , p. 57 f.
Adolf Grabowsky: Abraham Neumann. In: East and West . Issue 1, January 1903, Col. 17-14.
Shalom Asch : The tzaddik from the village. Dedicated to Abraham Neumann. In: East and West . Issue 1, January 1903, col. 23-30.

Web links

Commons : Abraham Neumann - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Abraham Neumann in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Abraham Neumann (1873-1942) , website at gallery97 Telaviv
sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de In: Ost und West: illustrated monthly for all of Judaism (1901–1923)
Abraham Neumann (1873-1942) , “Maison bord de mer”, Paris, 1899

Individual evidence

^ Andrea Löw, Markus Roth: Jews in Krakow under German occupation 1939–1945. Wallstein, Göttingen 2011, p. 72.
↑ Thomas Keneally: Schindler's List . Simon and Schuster, 2013, ISBN 978-1-4767-5048-4 , pp. 131 ( books.google.de ).
↑ XXXVIII. Exhibition of the Association of Austrian Artists Secession . Vienna 1911, p. 73, 74, 82, 96, 135, 117 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
↑ Polish Landscape at Mussmann’s . In: American Art News . tape 19 , no. 25 . New York April 2, 1921, p. 2 , JSTOR : 25589790 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).

personal data
SURNAME	Neumann, Abraham
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Polish painter
DATE OF BIRTH	February 6, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH	Sierpc
DATE OF DEATH	June 4, 1942
Place of death	Krakow ghetto

[1] Andrea Löw, Markus Roth: Jews in Krakow under German occupation 1939–1945. Wallstein, Göttingen 2011, p. 72.

[2] Thomas Keneally: Schindler's List . Simon and Schuster, 2013, ISBN 978-1-4767-5048-4 , pp. 131 ( books.google.de ).

[3] XXXVIII. Exhibition of the Association of Austrian Artists Secession . Vienna 1911, p. 73, 74, 82, 96, 135, 117 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

[4] Polish Landscape at Mussmann’s . In: American Art News . tape 19 , no. 25 . New York April 2, 1921, p. 2 , JSTOR : 25589790 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).