Jehudo Epstein
Jehudo Meier Epstein (born July 6, 1870 in Sluzk , Minsk Gouvernement , Russia ; † November 16, 1945 in Johannesburg , South Africa ) was a Jewish painter who came from Belarus , but who spent most of his life in Austria .
Life
Epstein received his first drawing lessons in Vilnius from Ivan Petrovich Trutnew . Due to his origins, he was not allowed to study at the Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg . He then went to Vienna without recommendations and without knowledge of the German language , where he studied at the Vienna Academy under August Eisenmenger from 1888 to 1894 . From 1923 Epstein had a professorship at the academy.
He received an award for the picture Polish Jews playing chess , as well as the Michael Beer Prize for Saul and David . A travel grant enabled him to go on a study trip to Rome . Further trips took him through several European countries and also to Palestine.
During the First World War , Epstein was a member of the art group in the Austro-Hungarian war press quarter .
In 1920 a comprehensive exhibition of his pictures took place in the Künstlerhaus in Vienna , on the occasion of which he received the Reichl Prize and was honored with the title of Professor.
In 1935 , Jehudo Epstein emigrated to South Africa.
His urn was buried in the Vienna Central Cemetery in the Israelite Department.
power
In the first decades of the 20th century, Jehudo Epstein had great success with his realistic images of everyday Jewish life and popular life, which he idealized. In addition, he also created biblical scenes, genre pictures , portraits of personalities in society and landscapes , mostly in a relatively dark palette. He was regarded as one of the most important Jewish painters during his lifetime.
post mortem
On September 19, 2014, the painting “The Coffee Hour. Fanny, the artist's sister ”from the Jewish Museum Vienna to the artist's two great-nieces.
Works
- Polish Jews playing chess (private property), 1892, oil on canvas, 53.5 × 56.5 cm
- Michiko Meinl with a bouquet of flowers (Vienna, Leopold Museum , inv.no.530), 1929, oil on canvas, 114 × 82 cm
- Peasant people praying in Burano (formerly Nelly and Bernhard Altmann), 1914, oil on canvas, 130 × 150 cm.
- River landscape (formerly Nelly and Bernhard Altmann), undated, oil on canvas, 70 × 105 cm.
- Self-portrait (formerly Nelly and Bernhard Altmann), 1921, oil on canvas.
literature
- Franz Servaes: Jehudo Epstein ; in: Jewish artists. Berlin 1900
- Vladimir Sergej von Zalozieckyj: artist or art historian. On the article by Jehudo Epstein, Neue Freie Presse No. 21425 of May 4, 1924 . R. Lanyi, Vienna 1924
- Jehudo Epstein: My way from east to west . Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1929
- René Schober: Jehudo Epstein , in: Margit Franz, Heimo Halbrainer (Eds.): Going east - going south: Austrian exile in Asia and Africa . Graz: Clio, 2014 ISBN 978-3-902542-34-2 , pp. 397-400
Web links
- René Schober: Jehudo Epstein , in Lexicon of Austrian Provenance Research , 2019
- Literature by and about Jehudo Epstein in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jehudo Epstein: My way from east to west. Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1929, p. 201
- ↑ eART.de Jehudo Epstein: SELF-PORTRAIT , colored chalk drawings, hand-signed, 1917th
- ↑ ARTNET The chess game, 1892. Dying job, buveurs 1901. Les.
- ↑ Robbed neighborhood ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 1938: 116. Auction item: Jehudo Epstein, Praying Peasant People in Burano, 1914, oil, canvas, 130 × 150 cm.
- ↑ Robbed neighborhood ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 1938: 162. Auction object: Jehudo Epstein, Flußlandschaft, undated, oil, canvas, 70 × 105 cm.
- ↑ Robbed neighborhood ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 1938: 434. Auction item: Jehudo Epstein, self-portrait, 1921, oil, canvas.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Epstein, Jehudo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Epstein, Jehudo Meier (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 6, 1870 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Slutsk near Minsk , Belarus |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 16, 1945 |
| Place of death | Johannesburg |