Isidor Kaufmann ( Hungarian : Kaufman(n) Izidor , Hebrew : ??????? ?????? ; 22 March 1853 in Arad – 1921 in Vienna) was an Austro-Hungarian painter of Jewish themes. Having devoted his career to 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 [ edit ]

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 Landes-Zeichenschule in Budapest , where he remained for one year. In 1876, he left for Vienna , but being refused admission to the Academy of Fine Arts there, he became a pupil of the portrait painter Joseph Matthaus Aigner . He then entered the Malerschule of the Vienna Academy, and later became a private pupil of Professor Trenkwald .

His most noted paintings refer to the life of Jews in Poland . They include: Der Besuch des Rabbi (the original of which was owned by Emperor Franz Joseph I , in the Kunsthistorisches Museum ), Schachspieler , Der Zweifler (for which he received the gold medal at the Weltausstellung of 1873).

Kaufmann's other honors include: the Baron Konigswarter Kunstler-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 [ edit ]

• Media related to Isidor Kaufmann at Wikimedia Commons
• Tobias G. Natter (Ed.): Rabbiner ? Bucher ? Talmudschuler. Bilder des Wiener Malers Isidor Kaufmann 1853?1921 , exhibition catalog, Jewish Museum Vienna, 1995 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 , Beruhmte Israelitische Manner und Frauen
• (in Romanian) Ileana-Rodica Dinculescu, "Teme in pictura unor arti?ti evrei din Europa Modern? (pan? la mi?carea de avangard?)" ("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)

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