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German artist
Moritz Daniel Oppenheim
(7 January 1800 in
Hanau
, Germany – 26 February 1882 in
Frankfurt am Main
) was a German painter who is often regarded as the first Jewish painter of the modern era. His work was influenced by his cultural and religious roots at a time when many of his German Jewish contemporaries chose to convert to Christianity. Oppenheim is considered by the scholar
Ismar Schorsch
to be in sympathy with the ideals of the
Wissenschaft des Judentums
movement, because he remained "fair to the present" without denying his past.
Biography
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Oppenheim was born to
Jewish
parents at Hanau, Germany in 1800; he died at Frankfurt am Main in 1882. He received his first lessons in painting from
Conrad Westermayr
, in Hanau, and entered the Munich Academy of Arts at the age of seventeen. Later he visited Paris, where
Jean-Baptiste Regnault
became his teacher, and then went to Rome, where he studied with
Bertel Thorwaldsen
,
Barthold Georg Niebuhr
, and
Johann Friedrich Overbeck
. There he studied the life of the
Jewish ghetto
and made sketches of the various phases of its domestic and religious life, in preparation for several large canvases which he painted upon his return to Germany.
In 1825 he settled at Frankfurt, and shortly after exhibited his painting
David
Playing Before
Saul
,
to see which a great number of admirers from all parts of Europe visited his studio. In 1832, at the instance of
Goethe
,
Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
conferred upon him the honorary title of professor. Oppenheim was commissioned to paint several portraits of prominent members of the
Rothschild banking dynasty
.
[1]
Oppenheim also portrayed his grandson
Alfred Oppenheim
, who became also a well known artist.
Oppenheim taught at the
Stadel Institute
, where
Julius Bien
was one of his students.
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Selected works
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Oppenheim's studies of Jewish life, his pictures of
Emperor Joseph II
and
Moses Mendelssohn
, and his portraits from life of
Ludwig Borne
and other contemporary Jewish notables, established his reputation as one of the foremost Jewish artists of the nineteenth century. His
Return of the Jewish Volunteer
is among his most famous works and was frequently reproduced; others include
Mignon and the Harper,
Italian Genre Scene,
Confirmation,
and
Sabbath Blessing
. All these are characteristic examples of his power of conception and skill at grouping.
References
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- ^
Five Arrows
,
Rothschild Archive
- ^
Morgan, Ann Lee (1987). "The American Audubons: Julius Bien's Lithographed Edition".
Print Quarterly
.
4
(4): 362?79.
JSTOR
41823786
.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
public domain
:
Isidore Singer and Frank Cramer (1901?1906).
"Oppenheim, Moritz Daniel"
. In
Singer, Isidore
; et al. (eds.).
The Jewish Encyclopedia
. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.
- Jewish Expression in Twentieth-Century Fine Arts
- Moritz Daniel Oppenheim
in the
German National Library
catalogue
- Museen Hanau: Die Entdeckung des judischen Selbstbewußtseins in der Kunst
- Georg Heuberger/Anton Merk: Die Entdeckung des judischen Selbstbewußtseins in der Kunst
- Der Zyklus "Bilder aus dem altjudischen Familienleben" und sein Maler
- Georg Heuberger
/Anton Merk:
Moritz Daniel Oppenheim: Die Entdeckung des judischen Selbstbewußtseins in der Kunst
. Wienand Verlag 1999.
- Anja Klockner:
Antikenrezeption bei Moritz Daniel Oppenheim
. In: Antike Welt 2, 2001, 147?154.
- Claus Stephani:
Das Bild des Juden in der modernen Malerei.
Eine Einfuhrung. / Imaginea evreului in pictura modern?. Studiu introductiv. Traducere in limba roman? de Ion Peleanu. (Zweisprachige Ausgabe, deutsch-rumanisch. Edi?ie bilingv?, romano-german?.) Editura Hasefer: Bucure?ti, 2005.
ISBN
973-630-091-9
- Ruth Drose, Frank Eisermann, Monica Kingreen, Anton Merk:
Der Zyklus "Bilder aus dem altjudischen Familienleben" und sein Maler Moritz Daniel Oppenheim
. CoCon-Verlag Hanau.
ISBN
3-928100-36-X
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