The Otto Freundlich UniverseColorful cells, monumental mosaics and the ideal of fraternity make Otto Freundlich a profoundly humanist pioneer of abstraction.
1878 - 1943Life and career
Stolp, Berlin, Paris, Bateau-Lavoir, Chartres and European abstract networksMain homes
°2,500Paintings, sculptures, mosaics, stained glass windows, prints, drawings, studies, monumental projects and works created, overall estimate
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1878 -1943 · Germany, Paris and humanist abstraction
Colorful cells, monumental mosaics and the ideal of fraternity make Otto Freundlich a profoundly humanist pioneer of abstraction.
Otto Freundlich was born in Stolp in 1878 and died at the Sobibór extermination camp in 1943. Installed in Paris in 1908, he frequented the Bateau-Lavoir and the avant-gardes without directly following Cubism. His decisive discovery came from Cézanne then from the stained glass windows of Chartres, on which he worked in 1914. He then conceived the work as an organism made up of colored cells: each part remained autonomous while participating in a harmonious whole, the image of a reconciled society. Compositions, Green-Red, Die Mutter and Ein Baum then show how rounded shapes, tesserae and flat areas construct an abstraction still linked to life. Freundlich practices painting, sculpture, mosaic and engraving, participates in European abstract groups and defends collective art. Jewish and committed artist, he was targeted by the Nazis; his sculpture The New Man is reproduced on the cover of the catalog of the exhibition of "degenerate art" in 1937. Refugee in France, arrested then deported, he was assassinated in Sobibór. His abstraction remains inseparable from his ideal of fraternity. The "Otto Freundlich" selection notably compares Composition and Composition Green-Red. His reading favors storytelling.
Freundlich constructs color as an ideal society: each cell has its voice, but none can exist fully without the agreement of all the others.
Course & style
Journey, subjects and pictorial language
Germany, Paris and the revelation of Chartres
Cézanne, avant-garde and stained glass lead the artist towards an abstraction based on color-organism. This milestone sheds light on the "Otto Freundlich" collection by favoring the story.
Painting, sculpture and abstract community
Cells, mosaics and monumental projects express a fraternal vision of art and society.
Persecution, degenerate art and deportation
Despite exclusion and threat, Freundlich maintained his humanist ideal until his assassination in Sobibór.
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Colored cell
Each form has its own value while fitting into a larger organism. This trait guides a story-centered reading of "Otto Freundlich".
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Space without hierarchy
Background and figure disappear in favor of a surface where all colors also participate.
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Memory of the stained glass window
The contours and bright areas are reminiscent of the assembled glass panels of Chartres.
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Humanist abstraction
Formal harmony becomes the visual model of a united and reconciled society.
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Six readings specific to Otto Freundlich
Works, visual language and historical landmarks make up a journey exclusively devoted to Otto Freundlich.
Cellular abstraction01
Composition
Nested shapes construct a luminous surface where each color exists through its relationship to others.
Landmark work by Otto Freundlich. Reading "Otto Freundlich" through the story.Green and red02
Green-red composition
The tension of the two main colors is resolved in an organic network of united shapes.
Landmark work by Otto FreundlichFigure and abstraction03
Die Mutter
The maternal theme remains in a construction of colored masses which connects the figure to the whole.
Landmark work by Otto FreundlichAbstract tree04
Ein Baum
The growth of the tree becomes a circulation of shapes and colors in a continuous pictorial organism.
Landmark work by Otto FreundlichStyle05
Colored cell
Each form has its own value while fitting into a larger organism. This trait guides a story-centered reading of "Otto Freundlich".
Reading key for Otto FreundlichStyle06
Space without hierarchy
Background and figure disappear in favor of a surface where all colors also participate.
Reading key for Otto Freundlich
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