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    Artist

  • Pissiotto, Henry da

    • Title

  • Portrait of Gerda Wronker

  • Physical Description

    1 Painting : oil on canvas ; 24" x 19 3/4" ; 61 x 51 cm

  • Date

    between 1940 and 1949

  • Summary

    The sitter, Gerda Wronker, is a young woman with light brown, shoulder length hair, wearing a rust-colored sweater over a cream-colored blouse.

    See also a painting by Adolf Ziegler (2003.27) showing Gerda Wronker’s uncle Erich and his sister Alice, when they were children in Germany..

  • Depicted

    Wronker, Gerda

  • Subject

    Women, Portraits; Nineteen forties

  • Genre

    Portraits

  • Medium

    Oil paintings; Paintings

  • Part Of

    Lili Wronker Family Collection, AR 25255

  • Accession Number

  • URL

Biographical/Historical Information

Gerda Wronker was the granddaughter of Hermann Wronker, a German-Jewish department store owner who was killed in Auschwitz. Gerda, along with her brother Erich and their parents, Max and Irma Wronker, escaped Germany to Paris in 1933 and then to Cairo in 1936, eventually immigrating to the United States in the early 1940s.

Henry da Pissiotto was a Jewish-Romanian artist who was also a trained dentist.

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Citation

Pissiotto, Henry da: Portrait of Gerda Wronker, Leo Baeck Institute, 2003.24.