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

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