Anna Neuman: Woman Portrait 1940s / German Israeli Jewish Expressionism

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Anna Neuman

1906,  Cottbus, Germany  - 1955, Tel Aviv, Israel

Portrait of a Woman , 1940s

Original Hand-Signed Pen on Paper -  circa the 1940s

Artist Name: Anna Neuman Title:  Portrait of a woman Signature Description:  Hand-signed in hebrew lower right Technique: Pen on paper Image Size:  35 x 34 cm / 13.78" x 13.39" inch Frame: Unframed Condition:  Good vintage condition: the image is in good condition, complete with no tears, holes, repairs, paint peelings of losses, few light aging stains lower right and few small rips on the margins (invisible once re-framed) - both consistent with the age and use

Artist's Biography:

Anna (Annie) Neumann, Israeli painter, born Germany, 1906-1955 Anna Neumann was born in Cottbus, Germany, in 1906. Died in Tel Aviv in 1955. In her youth, she began painting. After completing high school, she enrolled in art studies in Berlin. In 1931 she visited Eretz Israel and in 1933 immigrated to Eretz Israel (then Palestine under the British Mandate). At first, she worked in sculpture, but later focused on drawing and illustration. Painted Israeli types and portraits, including Berl Katznelson and Henrietta Szold. Illustrated the Book of Ruth and the Book of Judith and also children's books. Among other things, she created illustrations for a Child's Calendar, which were published in the 1950s by Leon Printers and for the library of Am Oved and Keren Hayesod. In 1964 an album of her works was published by Hadar Publishing House.

Education 1924-1927 Reinhardt Academy, Berlin, Germany

Awards 1932 Adolf Donath Award at large Berlin exhibition. Dr. Karl Schwartz, who still ran the Jewish Museum in Berlin (shortly before coming to Israel to run the Tel Aviv Museum), gave her the award.

Anna (Annie) Neumann  (the illustrations signed: Anne Neumann; in German: Anne (Annie) Neumann; 1906, Cottbus, Germany - 1955, Tel Aviv, Israel) was an Israeli – German painter and illustrator.

Biography

Annie, daughter of Sarah (nee Weinblum) and Mendel Neumann, was born in 1906 in Cottbus, Germany, about 120 kilometers from Berlin. She studied at a gymnasium, and in 1924 - 1929 studied painting at the Reinhardt Academy in Berlin. Two drawings of girl’s portraits presented at the annual exhibition in Berlin in 1932 aroused the attention of art critics and experts, and she won the "Berliner Tageblatt Adolf Donath” critic prize and received good reviews in the German press.

Neumann was a realistic-academic painter. "She did not like modernism. She loved to trust the great and the ancient who stood the test of time," wrote Haim Gamzu (an  Israeli  art and drama critic, director of the  Tel Aviv Museum  in 1962) . It was mainly about sketching portraits that she made in pencil, ink, and charcoal. Her most renowned work is a portrait of Henrietta Szold. However, she also painted in other mediums including watercolors, pastels, and oils. "Her watercolor drawings and paintings often tended to free lyricism, which is always associated with a pinch of melancholy”.

In 1933, when the Nazis came to power, Neumann immigrated to Palestine.  Early in her life in Israel she recognized the sculpture of Batya Lishansky, who exhibited with her a joint exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum in 1933 and became her partner.  In 1953 Neumann accompanied Lishansky to the Netherlands, Switzerland and Paris, and when she returned, she got cancer. She died in Tel Aviv in 1955, at the age of 48. She was buried in Nahalat Yitzhak Cemetery. In the year following her death (1956), a memorial exhibition was held in her honor at the Tel Aviv Museum.

Selected solo exhibitions 1933 Tel Aviv Museum of Art (with Batia Lishansky) 1949 Tel Aviv Museum of Art 1956 Memorial exhibition, Tel Aviv Museum of Art 1981 Anna Neuman: Memorial Exhibition, Guy Gallery, Tel Aviv ((with Batia Lishansky)

Neumann also exhibited in 1953 in Switzerland, the Netherlands, Uruguay and Argentina, as she accompanied Batia Lishansky's travels.

Group Exhibitions

2015 Each Year Anew: A Century of Shanah Tovah Cards, Reading Room (Library Foyer), Israel Museum, Jerusalem 1995 Contrasts No. 1, Beit Alon, Givatayim 1969 Art Festival, Painting & Sculpture in Israel, Tel Aviv Exhibition Grounds 1959 General Exhibition, On the Occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the City of Tel-Aviv, Tel Aviv Museum of Art 1956 Annual Exhibition, Art in Israel, Tel Aviv Museum of Art 1951 Art in Israel, Tel Aviv Museum of Art 1944 Collective Annual Exhibition by Palestinian Artists, Art Gallery of the ''Habima'' Theater, Tel Aviv 1942 General Exhibition, Art Gallery of the ''Habima'' Theater, Tel Aviv 1937 Group Exhibition, Moghrabi Theater, Tel Aviv 1934 The Portrait in Palestine, The Bezalel National Museum, Jerusalem 1933 Tel Aviv Museum of Art Additional Information:

ANNIE By Dr. Gideon Ofrat

In 1955, a week after her death from the cancer, which disturbed her for 16 months, the philosopher Samuel Hugo Bergman, who was very impressed from her drawings for the Book of Ruth (published by Leon the Printer, Tel Aviv, 1949) wrote:

"Annie Neumann, who was brought to the cemetery on the 13th of Tammuz in Tel Aviv, was a great artist and very gentle and pure soul. […] She was the chosen artist to accompany Ruth's book in drawings […]. This way of drawing, in which the fine lines of mindfulness and movement are explored, [...] it seems to me as a symbol of Annie Neumann's soul. It had something ethereal in its purity, something devoid of substance, something unreal in its childhood, its innocence ... "

Similar words by SH Bergman appeared in an introduction he wrote in the Annie Neumann Memorial Exhibition catalog, as stated in 1956 at the Tel Aviv Municipal Museum, which was then located on Rothschild Boulevard 16. Interesting and even significant: most of the writers on Annie Neumann's paintings referred to her soft, gentle and fluttering personality no less than her nature of work. "She was one of the most humble and gentle painters, [...] excelled in a refined mental set, which noted her graceful, slightly painful, yet vibrant personality ...", Gabriel Talpir wrote. "Annie Neumann was an artistic personality with unusual emotional nuances. Her delicate drawings expressed her heart's vibration and her love of the human being”, Haim Gamzu wrote. “She always stood out for her inconspicuousness , blessings and gentleness," commented David Arie Friedman in 1949, referring to the artist's participation in the general exhibitions of Tel Aviv artists. He further wrote: "The thread that unites all of her works is the subtlety of the perception of reality and the almost modest and shy expression, satisfied with a little, although this little holds the multiple." 

Anna Neumann was born in 1906 in Germany, in the city of Cottbus, in the state of Brandenburg, 125 miles southeast of Berlin. From the age of 18 and for five years she studied painting at the Reinhardt Art School in Berlin (the school was founded in 1902 by the Jewish artist Albert Reinhardt , shut down by the Nazis in 1939 and reopened in London). Anna-Annie Neumann excelled mainly in drawing. In 1932, shortly after her visit to Eretz Israel (in 1931), Berlin exhibited in the big annual exhibition two sketches of hers, heads of girls, received good reviews in the press and even the Berliner Tagblatt art critic (Adolf Donath, a Czech Jew, in 1923 Hermann Struck created  an engraving of his portrait). Also, Karl Schwartz, who still ran the Jewish Museum in Berlin (shortly before immigrating to Israel to run the Tel Aviv Museum), gave her the award. The Nazis came to power in 1933, and Annie Neumann immigrated to Israel, got acquainted with the sculptor Batia Lishansky, became her permanent partner, and even exhibited with her in 1933 a joint exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum, from the first exhibitions in the museum. Neumann presented exhibitions from the moment she came to Israel: mainly drawings, but also watercolors, pastels and even a handful of oil paintings. One of these exhibits was shown in early 1935 in the Diwan Jerusalem bookstore. Mordechai Narkis, who wrote reviews on "Davar" daily newspaper in addition to his role as curator of the Bezalel National Museum, responded to the exhibition and noted the pen drawings, and their "honest innocence". Already at this stage of her work, the women's subjects stood out: more and more "Mother and child" drawings, more and more childhood and girl drawings ("friendship", "two sisters"), drawings and watercolors of Arab women, laundress, Oriental dancer, etc. The portrait of Henrietta Szold, which Neumann inked, is considered the pinnacle of her work. She painted women of different ages, much less males (children's head drawings, or her father's portrait, or Berl Katzenelson's portrait, or an old man's image - one in pastel and one in ink). Women: "Mothers and girls - figures similar to angels, are reminiscent of Rilke's fragile and dreamy girls, the smile on their lips ties them in a secret thread” -described Davar art critic.

Femininity in the subject merged into what was generally regarded as "femininity" at the personality level - the lyrical, the gentle and the soft, which emerged in the words of all the writers about the creation of Annie Neumann. Therefore, DA Friedman's criticism of her exhibit at the Tel Aviv Museum in 1949, is filled with notes and descriptions, such as "Each picture is a charming little poem in its shortness and diminution, its ease and fragrance ...". In addition to Book of Ruth, Annie Neumann also illustrated the Book of Judith - another woman greater than life.

Annie Neumann was basically a realistic-academic artist, even though her watercolor drawings and paintings often tended to free lyricism (which is always a pinch of melancholy). In other words, Annie Neumann did not in any way connect with the local modernist moves, whether they were Parisian or Berlin Expressionists, neither the abstraction. "As if painting to her soul, naively, seriously and modestly," Friedman wrote. "She does create for the sake of the audience, but by the artistic urge in her heart." Lisette Levy wrote about her exhibition in 1949.

And might be, that this was "femininity" in a pre-feminist sense, i.e. - giving up the occupation breakthrough, the forcefulness, insistence on originality at all costs. And instead of all - humility, modesty, quiet and… love.

I didn't get to know Annie Neumann. I was a child when she passed away. And yet, I feel the purity and clear soul that she had, and even reminds me of someone I loved and still love. Not coincidentally, her heart was conceived by Albert Schweitzer in the mark of grace, good and beautiful. 

Annie Neumann (originally Anna, but it was all Annie; her name was also engraved in Nahalat-Yitzhak cemetery as "Annie Neumann") died in 1955 when she was only 48. In 1964 an album of her works was published by Hadar Publishing House, Tel Aviv. Batia Lishansky initiated the book publishing. The short introduction by Haim Gamzu was copied from his short remarks about Annie Neumann in "Painting and Sculpture in Israel", 1957 edition.

The above-mentioned remarks were written by Gamzu in 1956 on the occasion of a memorial exhibition held for her.

Source: Dr. Gideon Ofrat, Israel's preeminent curator, art critic, and art historian.

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  • Condition: Used
  • Condition: Good vintage condition: the image is in good condition, complete with no tears, holes, repairs, paint peelings of losses, few light aging stains lower right and few small rips on the margins (invisible once re-framed) - both consistent with the age and use
  • Artist: Anna Neuman
  • Signed: Yes
  • Title: Portrait of a woman, 1940s
  • Material: Pen
  • Region of Origin: Germany
  • Framing: Unframed
  • Subject: Figures, Portrait, Portrait of a woman
  • Type: Drawing
  • Original/Licensed Reproduction: Original
  • Style: Expressionism
  • Theme: Portrait
  • Features: One of a Kind (OOAK)
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: Israel
  • Time Period Produced: 1940-1949

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