Isidor Kaufmann
Isidor Kaufmann (
genre painting, he traveled throughout Eastern Europe in search of scenes of Jewish, often Hasidic life. The artist's life and work was featured by the Jewish Museum Vienna 1995 in a show curated by Tobias G. Natter
.
Life and career
Born to Hungarian Jewish parents in Arad, Kingdom of Hungary (presently in Romania), Kaufmann was originally destined for a commercial career, and could fulfill his wish to become a painter only later in life.
In 1875, he went to the Trenkwald.
His most noted paintings refer to the life of
Weltausstellung
of 1873).
Kaufmann's other honors include: the Baron
Königswarter Künstler-Preis, the gold medal of the Emperor of Germany, a gold medal of the International Exhibition at Munich, and a medal of the third class at the Exposition Universelle in Paris
.
One of his most prominent students was Lazar Krestin.
He married a cantor's daughter in 1882. They had five children.[1]
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Kaufmann's Portrait of a Yeshiva Boy
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Portrait of a Rabbi
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Day of Atonement, before 1907
References
- ^ "Isidor Kaufmann's contemporary genre scenes in Vienna". 4 November 2017. Retrieved 17 February 2022.
- Media related to Isidor Kaufmann at Wikimedia Commons
- ISBN 3-901398-01-5.
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Isidore Singer, Laura Landau (1901–1906). "Isidor Kaufmann". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.
- Alexander Kohut, Berühmte Israelitische Männer und Frauen
- (in Romanian) Ileana-Rodica Dinculescu, "Teme în pictura unor artişti evrei din Europa Modernă (până la mişcarea de avangardă)" ("Themes in the Art of Jewish Painters in Modern Europe– Before the Avant-Garde Movement"), at the University of Bucharest site
- Isidor Kaufmann (1853-1921)