[Jewish Artists and Art] On Otto Schneid and Human Art

Hollywood, CA: Saint Constantine Gallery..., [circa 1960]. 8pp, blue printed wrappers. Presentation inscription "From Miriam Schneid", Otto's wife.

Otto Schneid "dedicated years of his life to creating a kind of encyclopedia of contemporary Jewish artists, many of them contributors to L’Ecole de Paris and satellites of this avant-garde art movement in cities across Europe. Beginning in 1929, Schneid travelled to view the artwork of over one hundred a hundred Jewish artists such as Chana Orloff, Alfred Reth, Oscar Miestchaninoff, and Henryk Streng. He also corresponded with them by letter, and the artists sent him photographs of their work along with their biographies. Schneid submitted the manuscript of his encyclopedia to his publisher in 1937. Following the Anschluss of March 1938, the Nazis raided the publishing house and destroyed the manuscript. Schneid escaped Europe with the letters and photographs he had gathered with the hope of recreating the book." -https://programs.cjh.org/archive/otto-schneid-2025-03-27