Adolf Ginsberg

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Adolf Ginsberg: Portrait of Friedrich Poske , approx. 1882/83. The painting has been lost since 1945.

Adolf Ginsberg (born December 28, 1856 in Seesen , † August 28, 1883 in Ischia ) was a German painter .

Life

The father, Dr. Benjamin Ginsberg, b. 1808 in Breslau , died 1871 in Frankfurt / Main, was from 1836 conductor and senior teacher in Altstrelitz , from 1842 second inspector at the Wilhelmsschule in Breslau and from 1847 to 1862 director of the Jacobson School in Seesen, a renowned Jewish school. Adolf Ginsberg was deaf from birth, because of his family, lived in well-to-do circumstances and lived in Berlin, Munich and Vienna. His works (all lost) included portraits and landscapes. During one of his frequent visits to Italy, he fell victim to the great earthquake on the island of Ischia on July 28, 1883 (official date of death: August 28, 1883). He was buried on September 3, 1883 in a hereditary burial in the Jewish cemetery in Berlin-Weißensee (grave still preserved, but in need of renovation, see photo).

In 1884 two of his siblings, Philipp Ginsberg (1853–1895, also buried in the above-mentioned hereditary burial in the Weißensee cemetery) and Frida von Boschan, née Ginsberg, who lived in Vienna, founded the “Adolf Ginsberg Foundation” to support visual artists they used 60,000 marks from the brother's estate, which totaled 800,000 marks. The deed of foundation can be found in the archive of the Berlin Academy of the Arts along with other materials on the “Adolf Ginsberg Foundation” .

Grave of the brothers Adolf and Philipp Ginsberg at the Jewish cemetery in Berlin-Weißensee (photo 2005)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ballin, Gerhard, History of the Jews in Seesen, Seesen 1979, p. 184
  2. ^ Knerger.de: The grave of Adolf Ginsberg
  3. ↑ All information on Adolf Ginsberg from "Allgemeine Zeitung des Judentums", Volume 47, No. 38 and "Berliner Börsen-Courier" of September 5, 1883, 1st supplement, p. 2f.
  4. ↑ Latest releases. Responsible editor: Dr. H. Klee. Berlin, Tuesday, June 24, 1884, p. 3.
personal data
SURNAME Ginsberg, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Seesen
DATE OF DEATH August 28, 1883
Place of death Ischia