Otto Feldmann
Otto Feldmann (born February 26, 1881 in Vienna ; † murdered May 12, 1942 in the Sobibór extermination camp , then Generalgouvernement , now Poland ) was a German graphic artist, painter and gallery owner .
Life
Feldmann studied art in Munich and then went to Paris. There he was a student of Théophile Steinlen, among other things . He got to know the artistic circle of the Café du Dôme and August Macke . He appeared as an artist with drawings, etchings and watercolors as well as with designs for commercial graphics. At the beginning of 1912 he set up the Galerie Rheinischer Kunstsalon in Cologne on Hansaring , which was followed at the end of 1913 by the Neue Galerie in Berlin at Lennéstrasse 6a .
After the First World War , Feldmann married Ida Levy and settled with her and their daughter from their first marriage in Cologne-Deutz . In early 1939 the family went to Czechoslovakia . Feldmann himself was arrested by German authorities in March 1939. In 1941 he ended up in the Theresienstadt ghetto , from where he was transported to Sobibór in 1942, where he died. His widow managed to emigrate to the USA in the same year .
Galleries
In 1912, Feldmann set up the Rheinischer Kunstsalon gallery in Cologne , where he exhibited both artists of today's classical modernism such as Vincent van Gogh , Paul Cézanne , Auguste Renoir , Braque , Derain and Pablo Picasso , as well as representatives of Italian futurism . In addition to Macke, other representatives of Rhenish Expressionism were among the German artists shown in the gallery.
Feldmann seems to have had contacts with the Parisian Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler through the German-Jewish gallery owner Alfred Flechtheim , who gave him works by Henri Matisse , Marie Laurencin and Jules Pascin on commission for his dépendence in the Neue Galerie in Berlin . Feldmann's second exhibition in Berlin at the end of 1913 was entirely dedicated to Pablo Picasso and was entitled Picasso - Negerplastik . The catalog of the exhibition shows the head of a wooden statuette from Ivory Coast , of the Baule people . The catalog mentions the connection between African sculpture and the new art of Cubism to the Berlin audience for the first time .
Web links
- Otto Feldmann. Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen , accessed on April 7, 2014 .
- Rainer Stamm: Picasso in Berlin; “When Cubism still hurt”. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , accessed on April 7, 2014 .
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Feldmann, Otto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German graphic artist, painter and gallery owner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 26, 1881 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 12, 1942 |
| Place of death | Sobibór extermination camp , General Government |