Isidor Kaufmann's Paintings Capture Jewish Character
After having studied dilli-
Isidor Kaufmann was born gently for a year, he became a
pupil of the well-known Vien-
Arad, Hungary, in 1853. His nese painter, Aigner, in Vienna
first job was as clerk in a large
banking house. As a hobby, he and afterwards enrolled as a
took up drawing. When he
copied the head of Moses, after
a classical model, the skillfully
drawn sketch struck the atten-
tion of the chief prefect of
Arad County, Peter Acsel, who
sent the talented lad to the
Graphic School of Budapest.
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After his death in Vienna in
His paintings were eagerly
student at the famous Vienna
purchased by the Lichtenstein 1921, selections of his best oil
Academy.
Gallery in Vienna and by the paintings were photographed
His first paintings showed Museum of Fine Arts in Bu and edited by Herman Menkes
historical subjects. Later, he
(Vienna 1925).
turned to genre pictures, with dapest.
Some of his best known paint-
which he had immediate suc-
The average U.S. farm is 250
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Galicia, Moravia, Upper Hun- "Difficult Talmudic Passage",
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