Short description: A colourised print of a bird by Fritz Neumann. The bird is either a Baltimore oriole or another New World oriole species. Since there are no records that Neumann has ever been in America (yet), he might have seen it at an Aviary.

Notes: Found on eBay

Short description: Coloured etching of a flamingo by Fritz Neumann

Notes: Found on in an antiquarian bookshop in Hannover. The embossed mark of J.C. Blumenberg is clearly recognisable. Matching the title of the newspaper article on Fritz Neumann .

Fritz Neumann’s wife, Hedwig, also known as Hede Klinge (her birth name), can be found, unlike Fritz , in the membership register of the Reichskunstkammer Berlin :

• Membership 1933 - 1945
• Shelfmark A Rep. 243-04 No. 6263 in the Berlin State Archives

As it is known from the newspaper article that Fritz Neumann’s wife also worked as an artist, here are some references from the catalogue of copyright entries. More about this catalogue can be found in the corresponding article on Fritz Neumann .

Summary

The marriage certificate shows another address for Fritz Neumann: Lettestraße 1.

A search of the address reveals that it is most likely his father’s, Ludwig Karl Franz Neumann address, as there is an F. Neumann, book printer, sometimes also typesetter, can be traced there from 1904:

Address books

Address book 1904

(Der Kopf der Spalte befindet sich vor dem Umbruch)

Address book 1915

Address book 1917

Address book 1920

Address book 1925

Address book 1926

Address book 1927

Address book 1929

Address book 1930

Address book 1931

Address book 1932

Address book 1933

This shows that Fritz Neumann’s father lived at Lettestraße 1 between 1904 and 1933 and worked as a typesetter between 1927 and 1931, otherwise as a printer. As Fritz Neumann had this address when he married, it can be assumed that he lived at home until 1925.

Sources

The digital copies of the sources are linked to the respective excerpts. As the URN:NBN resolver of the DNB is used, these can also be cited.

Name lists of the civil status registers

In addition, already known data can also be found in name directories of Berlin registry offices:

• Landesarchiv Berlin, P Rep. 221 registry office Berlin Xb Nr. 605 Name index birth register 1897, S. 167 -
• Landesarchiv Berlin, P Rep.806 registry office Berlin IX Nr. 658 Name index marriage register 1925, S. 33

Thanks to Evelyn Kraßmann for the tip.

The newspaper article in the Spandauer Volksblatt of 19 February 1972 shows that he attended an art school between 1912 and 1916. Now there is the first indication that he was enrolled for one semester at the Akademische Hochschule für die Bildenden Künste in the winter semester of 1912/13:

The excerpt comes from the Alphabetical index of names WS 1909/10 to SS 1924 of the Academy of Fine Arts, page 92, shelfmark UdK Archive 6-204

Thanks to Dr Anastasia Dittmann from the Archive of the Berlin University of the Arts for pointing this out.

Thanks to Torsten Steinberg, we now have two civil register entries for Fritz Neumann. These are partly the source for the dates in the main entry .

Marriage certificate

This is the marriage certificate of Franz Robert Fritz Neumann and Anna Hedwig Klinge, married on 2 May 1925. The occupation of both is given as “draughtsman” and “draughtswoman”.

Fritz Neumann’s birthday is given as 6 December 1897 and his address as Lettestraße 1.

Anna Hedwig Neumann was born on 21 September 1895 and lived at Alte Schönhauser Straße 61.

Source: Standesamt Berlin 9 (IX), Heiratsregister, Nr. 131/1925

Witnesses

Torsten Steinberg also adds the witnesses:

• The craftswoman Erna Dombrowski, 30 years old, living in Berlin-Friedenau, Fregestraße 78.

  Erna Luise Adele was born on 9.4.1895. On 16.3.1934 she married the senior teacher Otto Wilhelm Alfred Büchner (died 1952). Her profession at the time of marriage was draughtswoman. At the time of her husband’s death, they both lived in Bergmannstraße in Berlin.

• Walter Klotz, 29 years old, a craftsman, lived at Viktoriastrasse 8, Berlin-Lankwitz.

Death certificate

This is the death certificate for Franz Robert Fritz Neumann, painter. The address Gartenfelder Str. 132 h is the one known from the old address books .

He died on 8 June 1984 in Spandau Hospital.

In addition, the date of birth is given as 6 December 1897 and that he was the widower of Anna Hedwig Neumann, née Klinge, to whom he had been married since 2 May 1925 (see above).

Source: Standesamt Spandau von Berlin, Sterberegister, Nr. 1476/1984

After it turned out that Fritz Neumann (1928-2014) is not Ric , Mark Strong has updated the biographies at Meibohm Fine Arts and AskArt.com .

Many thanks to Mark for this!

Hopefully the false attributions on eBay and other auction sites will now be less…

Short description: A etching of a the war harbour Kiel by Fritz Neumann.

Notes: Found on eBay . this has been brought to my attention by Torsten Steinberg. As he has noted this has almost certainly a wrong attribution: The stem points to a ship after the First World War, probably the Königsberg or a ship from the class , built after 1927, so the authorship of Hermann Fritz Neumann (1858 - 1920) can be ruled out.

Short description: Sailing boats, known as Ric 05. This one has a unusual location of the signature - within the print.

Notes: Taken from auctionet.com .

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