Eduard Cohen (painter)

Eduard Cohen (born June 22, 1838 in Hanover ; died December 12, 1910 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German landscape painter.

Life

Cohen was born into a distinguished Jewish family in 1838. He was the son of the doctor and medical advisor Hermann Cohen (born April 28, 1805 in Hanover, died January 10, 1891 there) and Sophie Sara, née Gleisdoerfer (born November 20, 1810 in Regensburg , died February 8, 1862 in Hanover), younger brother of Siegmund Cohen (born circa 1837, died circa 1878) and older brother of Ella (1843–1912), who married the architect Edwin Oppler (1831–1880) on July 3, 1865 . He was also a nephew of the Brunswick banker and champion for the emancipation of the Jews Israel Jacobson (1768-1828).

Career and family

From 1854 to 1859, on behalf of Edward's father, the architect Hermann Hunaeus built the " Cohen House " at Georgstrasse 35 at the corner of Kanalstrasse in Hanover . The social Hanover of those years met there, including the architect Heinrich Köhler , the sculptor Wilhelm Engelhard , the school director Adolf Tellkampf and the pastor of the Marktkirche , Hermann Wilhelm Bödeker .

Eduard Cohen was a student of the painter Edmund Koken in Hanover as well as of Albert Zimmermann in Vienna and Friedrich Preller in Weimar. He went on several trips and stayed for a long time in Italy from 1867 to 1870 , the country to which he owed many motifs for his pictures. Then Cohen settled in Frankfurt am Main .

Obituary notice from December 12, 1910 by Cohen's wife Ida in Frankfurt am Main as well as Mimi, Sophie and his son-in-law Ludwig Borchardt

On May 16, 1876, Eduard Cohn married his wife Ida Kuhn (born October 12, 1854; died January 15, 1930), with whom he had four children: Emilie (born 1877), who married the architect and Egyptologist Ludwig Borchardt , Sophie ( born 1881, died circa 1933), Edwin (1887–1888) and Albert (1890–1890).

Commitment to Jewish art

Cohen was a member and part of the central committee of the Society for the Study of Jewish Art Monuments in Frankfurt am Main and has been deputy treasurer there since 1907. At the 9th Extraordinary General Meeting on April 30, 1911, Julius Goldschmidt, as chairman of the company, informed those present about his death. Furthermore, he is mentioned as an active supporter (donor) in the directory of benefactors of the Institute for the Science of Judaism.

literature

Cohen, Eduard. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 1/1, sheets 1–30: Aagaard – Heideck. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1891, p. 174 ( archive.org ).
Johannes Kurzwelly : Cohen, Eduard . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 7 : Cioffi – Cousyns . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1912, p. 178 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Cohen, Eduard . In: Hans Wolfgang Singer (Ed.): General Artist Lexicon. Life and works of the most famous visual artists . Prepared by Hermann Alexander Müller . 5th unchanged edition. tape 1 : Aachen – Fyt . Literary Institute, Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt a. M. 1921, p. 269 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Karl Schwarz: Cohen, Eduard . In: Encyclopaedia Judaica . tape 5 : Cahan-Draguignan . Eschkol, Berlin 1930, Sp. 603 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Dankmar Trier : Cohen, Eduard . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 20, Saur, Munich a. a. 1998, ISBN 3-598-22760-4 , p. 161.

Web links

Commons : Eduard Cohen (painter) - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Jewish Museum Berlin: Portrait of Eduard Cohen (1838–1910) jmberlin.de (photography, by J. Albert)
Eduard Cohen (German, 1838-1910). artnet.de

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Alain Guggenheim: Eduard Cohen on geneanet.org , last accessed on June 16, 2017
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Waldemar R. Röhrbein (ed.), Hugo Thielen (arrangement): The Hanoverian art, theater and music scene in the second half of the 19th century. a.) Eduard Cohen , in this: Jewish personalities in Hanover's history , completely revised, expanded and updated new edition, Lutherisches Verlagshaus, Hanover 2013, ISBN 978-3-7859-1163-1 , p. 67f.
^ Hans-Joachim Schoeps : Jacobson, Israel. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 248 f. ( Digitized version ).
↑ Thieme-Becker.
^ Report on the IX. Extraordinary general meeting . In: Notepaper of the Society for Research into Jewish Art Monuments . No. 11 . Frankfurt am Main July 1911, p. 1–2 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
↑ College for the Science of Judaism (ed.): Thirty-second report of the Institute for the Science of Judaism . Etzkowski, Berlin 1914, p. 37 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

personal data
SURNAME	Cohen, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter
DATE OF BIRTH	June 22, 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hanover
DATE OF DEATH	December 12, 1910
Place of death	Frankfurt am Main

[alanguggenheim-1] Alain Guggenheim: Eduard Cohen on geneanet.org , last accessed on June 16, 2017

[Jüdische_Persönlichkeiten-2] Waldemar R. Röhrbein (ed.), Hugo Thielen (arrangement): The Hanoverian art, theater and music scene in the second half of the 19th century. a.) Eduard Cohen , in this: Jewish personalities in Hanover's history , completely revised, expanded and updated new edition, Lutherisches Verlagshaus, Hanover 2013, ISBN 978-3-7859-1163-1 , p. 67f.

[3] Hans-Joachim Schoeps : Jacobson, Israel. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 248 f. ( Digitized version ).

[4] Thieme-Becker.

[5] Report on the IX. Extraordinary general meeting . In: Notepaper of the Society for Research into Jewish Art Monuments . No. 11 . Frankfurt am Main July 1911, p. 1–2 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

[6] College for the Science of Judaism (ed.): Thirty-second report of the Institute for the Science of Judaism . Etzkowski, Berlin 1914, p. 37 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).