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    Artist

  • Unknown Artist

    • Title

  • Portrait of Dr. Franz Kobler (1882-1965)

  • Physical Description

    Oil Painting : oil on thin cardboard ; 17.8 x 13 cm

  • Date

    undated

  • Summary

    An expressionist depiction of the head of a man about 40 years old, wearing dark rimmed glasses. The emphasis is on the free flowing multi-colored brushstrokes ranging from white to black to primary colors and brown. The paint seems to be applied with a palette knife, so that the definition of the features is subordinate of the texture.

  • Depicted

    Kobler, Franz, 1882-1965

  • Subject

    Twentieth century; Historians; Lawyers; Authors

  • Genre

    Portraits

  • Medium

    Oil paintings

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Biographical/Historical Information

Franz Kobler was born in Jungbunzlau, Bohemia (Mladá Boleslav, Czech Republic) on December 18, 1882. He studied sociology in Berlin under George Simmel, and he met his future wife, Dora Feigenbaum (1888-1960). Kobler finished his law studies in Vienna and practiced both civil and criminal law. He was also interested in Jewish history, and published two books on the subject in the 1930s. In 1938, he was arrested and after his release was forced to leave Vienna with his family. They emigrated to London via Zurich and joined their son in California in 1947. Franz Kobler died in Berkeley, California, on May 12, 1965.

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Unknown Artist: Portrait of Dr. Franz Kobler (1882-1965), Leo Baeck Institute, 77.19.