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Group portrait Albrecht Penck, Emmanuel de Martonne, Charles Bourel de La Roncière, Erich von Drygalski
Lost Art-ID
297551
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
Group portrait Albrecht Penck, Emmanuel de Martonne, Charles Bourel de La Roncière, Erich von Drygalski
Object type
Group of reported objects
Description
Portraits from the geographer's meeting organized by the Geographic Society. The four are famous geologists: Albrecht Penck, born 1858 in Reudnitz near Leipzig, died 1945 in Prag. Specialist in exploration of the ice age. Professor in Wien and Berlin. Director of the Institute and Museum of oceanography on Berlin. Emmanuel de Martonne, born 1873 in Chabris (Indre), dies 1955 in Paris, director of the Geographic Institute in Paris, specialized in physical geography, President of the International Geographic Union. Charles Bourel de La Roncière, born 1870 in Nantes, died 1941 in Gourin, specialized in the history of voyages of discovery. Erich von Drygalski, born 1865 in Königsberg (now Kaliningrad/Russia), died 1949 in München. Specialized in the geography of the poles (expeditions to Greenland and the Antarctic), professor in Munich, travel writer. The portrait and signature of von Drygalski is printed backwards; B.Z. am Mittag; Mai 26, 1928
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.
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Contact
Please contact the German Lost Art Foundation.
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