Otto Freundlich — Abstract Composition (1936) | Fine Art Print

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Otto Freundlich — Abstract Composition (1936) | 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

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richly saturated palette

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