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Isidor Kaufmann BIOGRAPHY
1853 Hungary - 1921 Vienna, Austria. Known for: Jewish portrait and figure painting, sketching.
Predominantly a painter of Jewish people in their Sabbath finery, Kaufmann was born in Hungary, where he began painting at the age of fourteen. He studied at the National Academy of Art in Budapest,... Read full biography
Predominantly a painter of Jewish people in their Sabbath finery, Kaufmann was born in Hungary, where he began painting at the age of fourteen. He studied at the National Academy of Art in Budapest, moving to Vienna, Austria in 1876 for further studies. He settled in Vienna. Isidor Kaufmann was a... Read full biography
Predominantly a painter of Jewish people in their Sabbath finery, Kaufmann was born in Hungary, where he began painting at the age of fourteen. He studied at the National Academy of Art in Budapest, moving to Vienna, Austria in 1876 for further studies. He settled in Vienna. Isidor Kaufmann was a Hungarian portrait and genre painter. The trained bank clerk first attended the drawing school in Budapest and later studied at the Vienna Academy. On his travels to Hungary, Poland and Galicia he... Read full biography
Predominantly a painter of Jewish people in their Sabbath finery, Kaufmann was born in Hungary, where he began painting at the age of fourteen. He studied at the National Academy of Art in Budapest, moving to Vienna, Austria in 1876 for further studies. He settled in Vienna. Isidor Kaufmann was a Hungarian portrait and genre painter. The trained bank clerk first attended the drawing school in Budapest and later studied at the Vienna Academy. On his travels to Hungary, Poland and Galicia he visited Hasidic 'Shtetl', districts with a high Jewish population, or so-called 'Shtiblach', small private synagogues, and as an artist he became a close observer of social and religious life there. He processed what he saw into detailed depictions of... Read full biography
Predominantly a painter of Jewish people in their Sabbath finery, Kaufmann was born in Hungary, where he began painting at the age of fourteen. He studied at the National Academy of Art in Budapest, moving to Vienna, Austria in 1876 for further studies. He settled in Vienna. Isidor Kaufmann was a Hungarian portrait and genre painter. The trained bank clerk first attended the drawing school in Budapest and later studied at the Vienna Academy. On his travels to Hungary, Poland and Galicia he visited Hasidic 'Shtetl', districts with a high Jewish population, or so-called 'Shtiblach', small private synagogues, and as an artist he became a close observer of social and religious life there. He processed what he saw into detailed depictions of Jewish life and meaningful portraits. The present, sensitively executed portrait of a man with glasses and a pen tucked behind his e... Read full biography
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Predominantly a painter of Jewish people in their Sabbath finery, Kaufmann was born in Hungary, where he began painting at the age of fourteen. He studied at the National Academy of Art in Budapest, moving to Vienna, Austria in 1876 for further studies. He settled in Vienna.
Isidor Kaufmann was a Hungarian portrait and genre painter. The trained bank clerk first attended the drawing school in Budapest and later studied at the Vienna Academy. On his travels to Hungary, Poland and Galicia he visited Hasidic 'Shtetl', districts with a high Jewish population, or so-called 'Shtiblach', small private synagogues, and as an artist he became a close observer of social and religious life there.
He processed what he saw into detailed depictions of Jewish life and meaningful portraits. The present, sensitively executed portrait of a man with glasses and a pen tucked behind his ear is an example of his ability to artistically capture a moment, a facial expression and a mood. Even the Austrian Emperor Franz-Josef bought a work by Kaufmann and helped him to break through in his career as a painter.
His works can be seen at the Tate Gallery London, the Jewish Museum New York and the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, among others. In 1995, the Jewish Museum in Vienna presented an extensive solo exhibition of his work. See Tobias G. Natter (ed.): Rabbiner, Bocher, Talmudschüler. Bilder des Wiener Malers Isidor Kaufmann 1853–1921, exhibition catalogue Jüdisches Museum Wien, Vienna 1995.Biography from Dorotheum, Vienna
Isidor Kaufmann was born in Hungary. He studied in Budapest then at the Imperial Academy of Visual Arts in Vienna under the historical painter Joseph Trenkwald. His talent was financially supported by Baron Aczél.
The artist was captivated by the religious life and figures of his Jewish faith. From 1894, the artist travelled through Eastern Europe to observe the Jewish communities which was part of his heritage. He accumulated many sketches which he would develop once back in his studio in Vienna.Biography from Bonhams Bond Street
Isidor Kaufmann, born in 1853 in Arad, Hungary, devoted his career to portraying Jewish life. He studied at the Budapest State School of Drawing and the Imperial Academy of Visual Arts in Vienna. Kaufmann's detailed paintings were popular among collectors and provided a window into the past for the assimilated bourgeoisie in central Europe. He received accolades during his lifetime and had a major retrospective exhibition at the Jewish Museum Vienna in 1995.