Talk:Otto Gutfreund

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Reference needed

There are no references to Gutfreund visiting or exhibiting in London or the United Kingdom. This would be interesting to know since he clearly knew Paris; and a interesting large charcoal drawing by Gutfreund was sold yesterday (12 June 2012) at Chiswick Auctions in London.

Where is it written that Douglas Cooper credits the Czech sculptor Otto Gutfreund (1889–1927) as having realized the first cubist sculpture? I have not been able to find such a source. In The Cubist Epoch, for example, Douglas Cooper writes only that Gutfreund "responded positively to the language of Cubism" from 1911. In addition, Cooper writes "Gutfreund, who began to use Cubist planar structure in 1911, and went on to make a significant contribution to Cubist sculpture between 1912 and 1919." As it stand now, no source has been given for the claim. Note: Picasso's Fernand, Head of a woman, is a Cubist sculpture dated 1909. Archipenko created Cubist sculptures in 1910 and 1911. Coldcreation 13:56, 16 April 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Coldcreation (talk • contribs)

Was Gutfreund Jewish?

Was Gutfreund Jewish, by ethnicity or by religion? The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe says he was Jewish. It this a reliable source? Clearly, being Jewish in Czechoslovakia had much less significance during Gutfreund's lifetime than it would have had had he lived longer. If accurate we should at least say "was born to a Jewish family" and add the appropriate categories. Verbcatcher (talk) 22:28, 22 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The website of the Jewish Museum in Prague says that Gutfreund was born into a Jewish family.[1] I will edit the article accordingly. Verbcatcher (talk) 00:34, 18 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]