Fred uhlman short biography

Fred Uhlman (19 January – 11 April ) was a German-English writer, painter and lawyer of Jewish origin.

Biography

Fred Uhlman was born in Stuttgart, Germany, into a prosperous middle-class Jewish family.

He studied at the Universities of Freiburg, Munich and Tübingen from where, in , he graduated with a degree in Law followed by a Doctorate in Canon and Civil Law.

Fred uhlman short biography

In March , two months after Hitler was sworn in as Chancellor, Uhlman moved to Paris to start a new life. This, however, proved very difficult; foreigners were not permitted to take paid employment, and were immediately expelled from France if caught doing so.

Uhlman supported himself by drawing and painting, and selling his work privately when he could. At one stage he supplemented his income by selling tropical fish. Uhlman's star as a painter was in the ascendance, but buyers were hard to come by.

In April he moved to Tossa de Mar, a small fishing village on the Costa Brava in Spain,