Otto Freundlich : La Révélation De L'abstraction

Exhibition at the Musée de Montmartre, Paris, 28 February - 6 September 2020

In 1908, at the beginning of his career, Otto Freundlich (1878-1943) stayed at the Bateau-Lavoir, in Montmartre, where he met Picasso, Braque and Delaunay. A committed and visionary artist, he carried a powerful message in favour of a reinvented humanism, operating a synthesis between the arts, philosophy and politics. Stigmatised in 1937, his works from the 1910s and 1920s were partly destroyed by the Nazi regime, which denounced them as representative of what it called "degenerate art". Freundlich was deported and murdered in 1943.

This book highlights the way in which the artist, through the multiplicity of his creations and his thinking, played a pioneering role in the conception of abstract art.