Fred Uhlman

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Kurt Schwitters portrayed Fred Uhlman in the internment camp in 1940
Berkeley Galleries Moore Smith Uhlman 1944.jpg

Fred Uhlman (born as Manfred Uhlmann January 19, 1901 in Stuttgart ; died April 11, 1985 in London ) was a German lawyer and British painter and writer .

Life

Manfred Uhlmann was a son of the businessman Ludwig Uhlmann and Johanna Grombacher. His parents were murdered in the Theresienstadt ghetto in 1943 . His sister committed suicide in 1944 in view of the threat of deportation to the Auschwitz concentration camp .

He attended the Eberhard-Ludwigs-Gymnasium in Stuttgart and studied law in Freiburg , Munich and Tübingen , where he received his doctorate in 1925 with a thesis on partial sanity . In Freiburg he was a member of the striking Ghibellinia student union in the KC .

From 1927 Uhlman worked as a lawyer. As an active member of the SPD , he also maintained contacts with the politician Kurt Schumacher . After coming to power , he had to go into exile in France in 1933 because of his Jewish origins and his political activities. Because he could not practice his profession, he tried to earn a living as an art dealer and trading in aquarium fish. In 1935 he met his future wife Diana Croft, the daughter of Sir Henry Page Croft, 1st Baron Croft, in Spain and went to England in 1936 because of her. He had already started to paint as an autodidact in France. He continued this successfully in England and moved in artistic circles (including the Free German League of Culture in Great Britain ), where he met Oskar Kokoschka and Berthold Viertel .

In 1940 Uhlman was interned for six months at the Hutchinson Internment Camp in Douglas (Isle of Man) . Here he met Kurt Schwitters , who had managed to flee Norway to England. Schwitters painted Uhlman's portrait. In later years, Uhlman became known primarily through his autobiography The Making of an Englishman and the novella Reunion, which was translated into nineteen languages (German 1978, under the title Reconciled 1979, as a new edition Der wiederfinde Freund 1988, film adaptation F / D / UK 1989) Known writer.

Works

Dissertation (1925)
  • The partial sanity. Dissertation at the University of Tübingen, 1925 [typed]
  • The Making of an Englishman. 1960
    • Memories of a Stuttgart Jew . Translation Manfred Schmid. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 1992, ISBN 3-608-91370-X
    • The Making of an Englishman. Memories of a German Jew. Diogenes, Zurich 1998, ISBN 3-257-23018-4 . review
  • Reunion. 1971
  • With a new name. A story in two parts. Original title: Reunion and No Coward Soul Is Mine. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1985, ISBN 3-421-06241-2 .

Movie

literature

  • Emmanuel Bénézit (ed.): Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays. Gründ, Paris 1999.
  • David Buckman: Dictionary of artists in Britain since 1945. Art Dictionaries, Bristol 1998.
  • Hans Vollmer : General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. Seeman, Leipzig 1953–1962.
  • Anna Plodeck: The making of Fred Uhlman: life and work of the painter and writer in exile. 2 volumes. Dissertation. University of London. University of London (Courtauld Institute of Art), 2004.
  • Anna Müller-Härlin (née Plodeck): Fred Uhlman's Internment Drawings; "It all happened in this street, Downshire Hill ". Fred Uhlman and the Free German League of Culture. In: Shulamith Behr, Marian Malet (ed.): Arts in Exile in Britain 1933–1945. Politics and Cultural Identity. Rodopi, Amsterdam 2005, ISBN 9042017864 ( review of the anthology ).
  • Uhlmann, Fred , in: Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 . Volume 2.2. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 1179

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personal data
SURNAME Uhlman, Fred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Uhlmann, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, painter and writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH April 11, 1985
Place of death London