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  • Portrait of Frankfurt-born artist Leo Maillet, approx. 1930

    Portrait of Frankfurt-born artist Leo Maillet, approx. 1930

    Leo Maillet, (Leopold Mayer by his birth name), a friend of Jeanne Mandello’s, was born in 1902 in Frankfurt into a Jewish family. He studied Fine Art in Frankfurt, and in 1930 became a master-class student of Max Beckmann. In 1931, he won the city of Frankfurt’s Goethe art prize but in 1933, when the…