Benjamin Liepman Prins

Benjamin Liepman Prins in his studio, 1934

The Dutch rabbi

Benjamin Liepman Prins (born January 20, 1860 in Arnhem , † October 4, 1934 in Amsterdam ) was a Dutch genre and portrait painter of Jewish descent.

Prins was the third of six children of the Orthodox Jewish carpet dealer Eliezer Liepman Philip Prins (1835–1915) and his wife Henrietta Prins-Jacobson (1836–1885).

Prins studied from 1877 to 1882 at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam with August Allebé . From 1882 to 1884 he studied further at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp with Charles Verlat . He then worked and studied in Fernand Cormon's studio in Paris until 1888.

Prins eventually settled in Amsterdam, where he opened a studio. With his family, who moved to Frankfurt am Main in 1885 , he met Rosa Benari, the daughter of the German painter Moritz Daniel Oppenheim , whom he later married and had two children. He was friends with Max Liebermann .

Prins was best known as a genre painter and portraitist. He often looked for his subjects within the Jewish community, from which he received most of the commissions. He also regularly painted biblical scenes. At a later age he made a large number of still lifes. He also often worked in North Brabant , in Geldrop .

At the beginning of the 20th century, Prins was a well-known artist. He exhibited in London , Milan , Vilnius , Antwerp and Rotterdam . In 1904 Queen Wilhelmina bought his painting “Old Sailor”.

Prins was a member of the artists' association " Sint Lucas " and for some time chairman of " Arti et Amicitiae " in Amsterdam. Some of his works are in the possession of the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam .

literature

• Prins, Benjamin Liepman . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 27 : Piermaria – Ramsdell . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1933.
• Benjamin Liepman Prins in: Biografisch portaal van Nederland (digitized)
• Documentatie van Beeldende Kunst in Noord-Holland (digitized version)
• Allison Siffre Guedalia Kupietzky: Benjamin Liepman Prins: A Dutch Jewish Painter (1860–1934) Montclair State University, 1996.

Web links

Commons : Benjamin Liepman Prins  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Benjamin Liepman Prins. Biographical data and works in the Netherlands Institute for Art History (Dutch)
• Pieter A. Scheen : Lexicon Nederlandse Beeldende Kunstenaars 1750–1950 , biography (digitized)