Comments on: Woldemar Neufeld art gets its own gallery

By: June Knipfel

June Knipfel — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 19:34:33 +0000

I have a watercolour of the old schoolhouse (on page 57 in last book of paintings ) done by Woldemar Neufeld.I showed it to him in 1982 when he was here,and he said it was his and he changed to oils in 1930 and started to sign them differently. Iam 82 ,my husband is 91 and I would like to sell this painting as none of my children are interested.My grandmother got it as a gift when she moved out of Waterloo with my parents when I was in grade 3 at Alexandra school in Waterloo. If anyone is interested they can reach me at my email address.

By: Bart Kogan

Bart Kogan — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 18:15:27 +0000

Hello, I have 2 woodcut prints by Woldemar Neufeld which I have admired since purchase in 1973 or so. They are of New York city entitled, “Central Park Entrance at 90th Street” and “Sailboat Pond”. Both ate 2/100.

My Brother and I bought them at the same time for our homes at Gallery Madison 90 in New York City no longer there.

I had not seen any of his work since and glad to know how prolific and well known he was. Do you recall these 2 pieces? Did he do more images of Manhattan? Thanks.These 2 pieces were very much for dedicated New Yorkers of Manhattan’s upper east side.

By: James Brugger

James Brugger — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 16:16:53 +0000

I knew Woldemar in 1941-42 when he was the arts teacher at Friendly Inn, an interracial settlement house in Cleveland. He and his wife lived at the settlement, as did several graduate students attending the School of Applied Social Sciences at Western Reserve University. I lived there during my junior and senior years at John Carroll University. Woldemar found responsive pupils for his offerings within the limited facilities and resources the Inn, a social service agency, was able to extend to the children and youth of a racially mixed neighborhood still feeling the effects of the Great Depression. I recall one teen-ager, named David Chambliss, who Woldemar felt showed promise of achievement. Drafted to the Army in 1942, I lost track of the Neufelds until, one day in the ’70s,
I saw one of his paintings in the window of a gallery in Manhattan. It’s very good news that his works will soon have their own showcase.

By: Karen

Karen — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 15:31:09 +0000

My parents purchased a beautiful landscape back in the eighties and it was signed E. Neufold, could this be a relative.

By: Astrid Koop

Astrid Koop — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 23:35:41 +0000

Waldemar Neufeld was a cousin of my late father Jacob Gossen; we have viewed some of his work in the Kitchener-Waterloo area and would enjoy seeing the St. Jacobs display.
AK