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The Suitcases of Mr. O.F.
Per-Oskar Leu
Biography of Painter and Sculptor Otto Freundlich*, Authored by Himself
“I was born on June 10th 1878 in Stolp (Pomerania). As a child I used to draw a lot, but upon starting school the talent disappeared. I became a merchants apprentice, and then a clerk, but after abandoning this occupation, I began studying art history in Munich. While being an art history student in Florence, I took up sculpture and painting. I was then twenty-seven years old. After two years of independent practice, I developed a style of painting applying colorful, clear, and purely constructive surfaces, without any naturalistic or impressionistic elements, a technique to which I have remained faithful since 1908. My first abstract pictures date from the year 1911. In 1908 I created various sculptures: a male mask (bronze); a female bust (bronze); in 1910 a mask made of plaster. All these sculptures are placed in private collections.
In 1908 I came to Paris for the first time. I found a studio in Montmartre (the Bateau Lavoir), in the same atelier building where Picasso then lived. I exhibited my pictures at Galerie Sagot on Rue Laffitte. At the invitation of Kunst-Kring in Amsterdam, I participated in an exhibition there, together with all the Parisian avant-garde artists in 1912. In 1912 I also exhibited at the Cologne Sonderbund, and that same year I made two large heads of plaster. In 1918-19 I created a 2x3 meter mosaic for a private collection, and in 1924 a church window. I regularly exhibited with the Berlin-based Novembergruppe. After returning to Paris in 1924, I took part in the Salons of the Indépendants and the Musicalistes, and abroad I participated in exhibitions at museums in Amsterdam, Den Haag, Zürich, Basel; in London: Guggenheim Gallery and Burlington Gallery. On the occasion of my sixtieth birthday in 1938, the picture Triptychon was signed over from Jeanne Bucher in Paris to the Jeu de Paume Museum. In 1929 my first monumental and non-figurative sculpture arose, in 1933 another non-figurative and monumental sculpture in plaster, and in 1934 an architectural sculpture, which followed the execution of an architectural relief. In 1938 I realized a (three-part) mosaic Hommage au peuple de couleur. From 1932 to 1934, I participated in the exhibitions and publications of Abstraction-Création.
Publications: Genius (Sculptures, 1910), and in 1919, a portfolio with eight engravings (Kairos Verlag). Kunstblatt: 1931. Contributor to A–Z in Cologne and to Die Aktion. In Germany, the sculptures of mine that were previously in the museum of Hamburg, have been displayed at the exhibition Entartete Kunst (1937-1938) in Berlin and Munich, and depicted in the Stürmer. My studio Le Mur (Academy of Art) is situated in Rue Henri Barbusse 38 in Paris, (formerly Rue Denfert-Rochereau), I had to leave it twice, in 1939 and in 1940, as I was interned.”
Saint-Paul-de-Fenouillet 1941.
sign. Otto Freundlich.
*Otto Freundlich, b. 1878 in Stolp (now Słupsk, Poland); d. 1943
in Lublin-Majdanek concentration camp.
Per-Oskar Leu (1980, Oslo, Norvegia) vive e lavora a New York. Attualmente, partecipa all’ Independent Study Program del Whitney Museum of American Art, NY. Ha studiato alla National Academy of Fine art (Oslo), alla Glasgow School of Art e si laurea nel 2009 alla Städelschule (Frankfurt am Main). Tra le mostre precedenti: When it stops dripping from the ceiling, Kadist art Foundation, Paris (2012), Crisis and Critique, 155 Freeman/Triple Canopy, New York (2012), The English: Are They Human?, Commercial Road Project, Cura/London Metropolitan University, London (2012), Vox Clamantis in Deserto, unosolo (1/9unosunove project room), Rome, (2010), Frieze Projects, London (2009).
Per-Oskar Leu (b. 1980 Oslo, Norway) lives and works in New York. He is currently participating in the Independent Study Program at the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY. He attended the National Academy of Fine Art (Oslo), Glasgow School of Art and the Städelschule (Frankfurt am Main) completing studies in 2009. Previous exhibitions include When it stops dripping from the ceiling, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris (2012), Crisis and Critique, 155 Freeman/Triple Canopy, New York (2012), The English: Are They Human?, Commercial Road Project, Cura/London Metropolitan University, London (2012)), Vox Clamantis in Deserto, unosolo (1/9 unosunove project room), Rome, (2010), FriezeProjects, London (2009).
La mostra proseguirà fino a sabato 10 novembre 2012. The exhibition will be on view through saturday november 10th, 2012.
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