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Otto Freundlich
German Jewish artist murdered by Nazis in a concentration camp (1878-1943)
Otto Freundlich (10 July 1878 – 9 March 1943) was a German painter and sculptor of Jewish origin. One of the first generation of abstract artists, Freundlich deeply admired cubism and spent much of his life in France. He was murdered at the Majdanek concentration camp during the Holocaust.
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Otto Freundlich (10 July 1878 – 9 March 1943) was a German painter and sculptor of Jewish origin. One of the first generation of abstract artists, Freundlich deeply admired cubism and spent much of his life in France. He was murdered at the Majdanek concentration camp during the Holocaust. Freundlich was born in Stolp, Province of Pomerania, Prussia. His mother was writer Samuel Lublinski's cousin. Trained in dentistry, Freundlich turned to art and moved to Paris in 1908, living at the Bateau-Lavoir with Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso. He returned to Germany in 1914. After World War I, he joined the socialist November Group. He co-organized the first Dada exhibition in Cologne (1919) with Johannes Theodor Baargeld and Max Ernst. Freundlich returned to France in 1924 or 1925, joining Abstraction-Création.
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