‘Otto Neumann: Modern Degenerate’ Shows an Artist Struggling Through the Hopelessness of 20th Century Germany Posted on February 5, 2019June 30, 2020 by Doug Rothschild This article was originally published by the Chicago Reader on January 26, 2018, and was written by Dmitry Samarov. Otto Neumann (1895-1975) survived conscription into the German army during World War I, persecution by the Nazis, and the suicide of his only child, and while none of those cataclysmic events appear directly in his many drawings, […]