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245:, whose Sympathetic Magic, published in 1980 was illustrated by Fried. In 1960 Fried was able to retrieve some 59 of the paintings he had completed before the War which he had left stored in Paris, but it was not until the year before his death in 1979, that he was able to regain possession of a further group of paintings that had been stored in Toulouse.
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Austrian, and their son, born in Paris, met the criteria because he was a French citizen. Fried stayed behind to
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During these years Fried struggled to make a living. He appears to have undertaken dress design for a Paris
Fashion house. Through his friendship with a sculptor who lived below him who ran a puppet theatre, he was employed as puppeteer, and this was recorded by a photograph taken by Kertész in 1930.
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American vice-consul at Marseilles , it was possible for some of them to gain visas to USA. In the case of Fried it appears this was arranged by the Quaker American Friends Service Committee. It is not clear how Fried escaped from France, but it was probably through Spain and the date of his
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escape is uncertain. What appears to be certain is that he got to
Casablanca and was aboard the "Serpa Pinta" which was bound for New York. One account gives the date May 1942 when he was in Casablanca and June for his arrival in New York. Another account states that he travelled with the artist
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Parsonage in Otis in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, where they spent the summer months, although he continued to work and live in Greenwich village where he died of a heart attack in July 1980. Following his death and to commemorate his close friendship with
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Finland and became Professor of Psychology at the University of JyvÀskylÀ. Anne Fried moved to Finland in 1969, having learnt Finish, and she became a leading Finnish novelist and writer. She died in 1999 and Risto Fried died in 2004. Fried became a very active member of the artists
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Toulouse, where Fried worked as a portrait photographer and forger of passports and documents for those involved in the Resistance. At this time a large number artists and other Jewish intellectuals had gathered in this area. Through the efforts of the American
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He had when young ambitions to become a musician, and while in Paris he played the violin in a cinema orchestra. From 1931 onwards he painted White
Russian refugee Cossack singers. Orchestras and musicians become an increasingly important theme in his work.
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finish illustrations for a book, and several months later, when he applied for his visa, it was not granted because the quota for
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community in Greenwich village, many of whom were emigres from central Europe, and in particular he re-established his friendship with Kertész, who was now gaining widespread recognition as a photographer.
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