Otto Freundlich — Fragments | Fine Art Print

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Otto Freundlich — Fragments | Fine Art PrintOtto Freundlich (18781943) was a pioneering German abstract painter and sculptor whose radically non representational work placed him among the earliest practitioners of pure abstraction in European art. His compositions of interlocking colour planes, developed independently of Mondrian and Kandinsky, were declared "degenerate" by the Nazis. He died in the Sobibor extermination camp in 1943. Printed on Hahnemhle German Etching paper the same archival

colouration

His wallpaper and textile designs

are treasured in Japanese temple collections and command the highest respect in the history of Sino-Japanese artistic exchange

black ink on white paper or silk

his charcoal Noirs are studies in darkness and dream

and moonlit ponds brought an entirely contemporary Japanese sensibility to the woodblock tradition

Claude Monet (1840–1926) was the father of French Impressionism and one of the most consequential painters of the modern era

A cornerstone piece for collectors of vintage horror and classic cinema

Rejected by the Berlin Dada group

The Milkmaid

His warrior triptychs remain among the most dynamic images of 19th-century art

His paintings of ancient African civilisations — including his celebrated series on Piankhy the Great