Neugass, Fritz 1899-1979

Biographical note: German emigre journalist and photographer.

Fritz Neugass was born in Mannheim in 1899, was member of the Wandervogel youth movement, and received a doctorate in art history from the University of Heidelberg in 1924. He was an art correspondent in Paris for German and Swiss newspapers and art magazines, 1926-33, and for Swiss, English, and American newspapers and magazines, 1933-39. He was interned as an "enemy alien" in the Antibes and Les Milles internment camps in southern France, then lived in Cannes waiting for emigration.

Neugass immigrated to the United States in 1942 and worked as a freelance photographer and writer in New York City, 1944-50, and did ethnological photographic documentation of Mexican rural life in 1953. He was exhibited in the Village Camera Club and the American Museum of Natural History in 1954. From the late 1940s until his death he was a contributor to art auction catalogs, German-American newspapers, and once again to German and Swiss newspapers. He wrote articles on art, architecture, the art auction market, and photography. He used the pseudonyms Francois Neuville and Friedrich Brentano.

From the description of Fritz Neugass papers, 1913-1979. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122588876