David Friedmann

David Friedmann (January 24, 1857 in Rawitsch - February 15, 1942 in Breslau) was a German entrepreneur and art collector.

The Friedmanns spent their summers in their New Castle in Großburg, now Borek Strzeliński, and later their winters in an elegant villa in Breslau's Ahornallee.

He acquired an extensive collection of mainly French, Dutch and German painters of Realism and Impressionism, including works by Gustave Courbet, Camille Pissarro and Jean-François Raffaëlli, by Jozef Israëls as well as by Lovis Corinth, Walter Leistikow and Max Liebermann.

In 1937, he was forced to sell his summer residence in Großburg, and in November 1938 the Haltauf manor, including the hunting grounds he had inherited from his father-in-law.

The entire Friedmann collection was stolen by the Nazi regime, 306 objects, arranged according to the rooms in the Breslau villa at Ahornallee 27.

[7] The heirs were the collector's great-nephews, who had both become acquainted with the collection as children and teenagers and had spent a lot of time with their great-uncle.

[8][9] The artist Christian Thee made a relief of Liebermann's painting in 2014 and gave it to David Toren so that he could feel it.

252 on the inventory list of Friedmann's confiscated collection, also ended up with the art dealer Hildebrand Gurlitt.