Isidore Kaufmann
Isidor Kaufmann (born March 22, 1853 in Arad , Austrian Empire ; died November 16, 1921 in Vienna ) was a Hungarian portrait and genre painter .
Life
Isidor Kaufmann was a bank clerk. He attended the National Drawing School in Budapest in 1875 and 1876. In 1876 he continued his studies privately with Josef Matthäus Aigner in Vienna and then studied at the Vienna Academy with Josef Mathias Trenkwald . Kaufmann went to Hungary, Galicia and Poland. He created genre pictures with social content and depictions of Jewish folk life and was awarded the Königswarter Prize. In 1899 he received a small gold medal at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition .
The oil painting with a portrait of Isidor Gewitsch , painted around 1900 by Isidor Kaufmann, hangs in the Jewish Museum in New York City .
literature
- T. Natter (Ed.): I. Kaufmann 1853–1921 , exhibition catalog, Vienna 1995.
- Merchant Isidore. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1965, p. 271.
- Hermann Menkes (text), Hirsch Perez Chajes (preface): Isidor Kaufmann . Manz, Vienna 1925 ( digitized version )
Web links
- Entry on Isidor Kaufmann in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Merchant, Isidore |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian portrait and genre painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 22, 1853 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Arad (Romania) |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 16, 1921 |
| Place of death | Vienna |