Nazi Plundered Art: Miriam Friedman Morris On the Legacy of Artist and Activist David Friedmann (1893-1980)

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Cover art: 1922 painting by David Friedmann. To learn more, please visit David Friedmann's site,  view his 1920s portraits, and more:

https://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/last_portrait/friedmann.asp
https://www.visitnorman.com/events/testimony-the-life-and-work-of-david-friedman
https://www.jewishgen.org/austriaczech/wall-of-fame/friedmann.html
https://blog.nli.org.il/en/lbh_friedmann/?fbclid=IwAR3xrdcUEDhSyMckJDFBEXIPmWAsS8ALOGmtOPdCkMX8uX2nM175CnQ6p9

Show Notes:

2:20 born in 1893 in Austria-Hungary
2:45 Studied with German painter/printmaker Lovis Corinth and German Etcher Hermann Struck 

6:40 Lodz Ghetto then Auschwitz

11:20  Lodz Ghetto Chronicle header -  Lodz Ghetto Bridge sketch

12:30 Austrian Writer Oskar Rosenfeld wrote about Friedmann

13:40 Jewish Museum in Prague

14:00 Auschwitz Museum donation  of Polish prisoner portrait

18:40 Berlin’s Centrum Judaicum Synagogue exhibited  Polish Prisoner sketch 

20:30 1943 sketches of hat factory survived

23:00 Researcher Eva Wiater located album with 33 colorized drawings at  Jewish Historical Institute 

37:00 Artwork surfaced in France marked with number that indicates  auction  

38:50 Buffalo, New York gallery  gifted Friedman works  

44:00  claimed 800 missing works in restitution claims - 2,000 actually missing

48:00  rebuilt  life in  U.S. - created billboards

49:00  Czech exhibition in  1946 - met second wife, Hildegard Taussig 

52:52 Holocaust paintings 1945-1946 - Palestine office purchased some - 1947 Palestine tour

53:15 During D.C. Jewish Holocaust Survivior’s Conference in 1983, Miriam learned seven  are held by Yad Vashem and three are at Holocaust History Museum

55:00 Etching by Friedmann dedicated to his violin teacher located 

1:04:00 Long Island chess player’s heirs donated some of Friedmann’s chess portraits to  Cleveland Public Library

1:05:00 2009 Holocaust Era Assets Conference Panel in Prague 

1:07:30  two Holocaust series

1:10:00 Sudeten Germans in Western Bohemia's use of Holocaust series for ration cards

1:19:00 1962 returned to  Holocaust paintings 

1:27:00 Drawings of  Prague Jewish Community leaders donated to Yad Vashem

1:29:00 Album of portraits exchanged between friends

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