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Portraits of famous chess champions

Lost Art-ID
297594
Artist / Creator
Friedmann, David
Birth
1893.12.20, Ostrau (Mähren)
Death
1980, St. Louis, Missouri
Place of activity
Berlin; Prag; Tel Aviv; St. Louis
Title
Portraits of famous chess champions
Dating
1923
Object type
Portfolio / sketchbook
Group of reported objects
Graphic
Material / Technique
Paper (Handmade) / printed (lithography)
Height
38.30 cm
Width
28.10 cm
Description
Friedmann printed 50 portfolios, at least 24 of those (perhaps up to 44) are missing. Contained portraits of: Lasker, Réti, Grünfeld, Selesnieff, Euwe, Tartakower, Bogoljubow, Tarrasch, Spielmann, Rubinstein, Wolf, Walter, Bernstein, Teichmann. Printed on deckle-edge paper, all prints signed by the artist. The hand-written end paper of portfolio No. 27, once Lasker's own copy, is shown here as an example only. Friedmann wrote that he exhibited this portfolio in 1924 at Gallery Wenzel in Breslau. He probably also exhibited this portfolio in Berlin, Leipzig, Dresden, Hamburg, Munich, and other places, such as the Düren Rheinland Museum.
Provenance

Berlin / Silberstein & Co haulage company, Kurfürstendamm, 1941/42

David Friedmann was a pupil of Lovis Corinth and Hermann Struck. Approximately 1300 works by Friedmann (oil paintings, watercolours, lithographs, drawings, engravings) were confiscated from his lift at the Berlin freight forwarding company Silberstein & Co., Berlin Kurfürstendamm, probably between 16 October and December 1941.

Friedmann's Berlin flat was located at Paderborner Str. 9, Berlin W 15; even after fleeing to Prague on 27 December 1938, he paid rent until February 1940; he had already had to give up his studio at Xantener Str. 23 (Berlin-Wilmersdorf) in 1933.

After the war, he described the total loss of his own artworks as "approx. 2000".

16 paintings presumably disappeared in 1942 from the flat of his father-in-law, Prof. Dr Maximilian (Max) Fuchs, Wielandstr. 29, Berlin-Charlottenburg, after the Fuchs couple were deported in 1942.

Friedmann signed his works "Friedmann, D. Friedmann or Dav. Friedmann.

Published since
2004
Contact
Please contact the German Lost Art Foundation.
Circumstances of loss reported as
Nazi-confiscated property
Search Request, Person

Friedmann, David

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