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    Artist

  • Sax-Bernhard, Gertrud

    • Title

  • Georg Bernhard, the artist's husband

  • Physical Description

    1 painting : oil on canvas ; 132 x 110 cm ; 52" x 43.31"

  • Date

    circa 1940

  • Notes

    Signed lower right.

  • Summary

    Portrait depicts Bernhard informally, sitting in a wood chair in front of a window with a view of a street. Various plants and succulants sit on the windowsil. He wears a dark suit, legs crossed, and smoking a pipe. Frame matches 97.13.

  • Depicted

    Bernhard, Georg, 1875-1944

  • Subject

    Newspaper editors, Germany; Men, Portraits; Journalists

  • Genre

    Portraits

  • Medium

    Paintings; Oil paintings

  • Accession Number

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Biographical/Historical Information

Georg Bernhard (1875-1944) worked as chief editor of "Vossische Zeitung" in Berlin. He was also involved in the liberal Deutsche Demokratische Partei and served in the Reichstag from 1928-1930. In 1933 he was forced to emigrate to Paris, where he founded the exile newspaper "Pariser Tageblatt." In 1941 he fled to New York where he lived the rest of his life.

Gertrud Sax-Bernhard (1885-1962) was a painter of still lifes, landscapes and portraits. She was first married to Siegfried Landsberger, with whom she had a son, Herbert, born in 1905. Gertrud received her initial training with Martin Brandenburg and Leo von König in Berlin and was a member of the Association of Women Artists and the Association of Visual Artists in Germany. She emigrated to Paris after the Nazis came to power in 1933. She had numerous exhibits in Paris as well as Nice and participated in shows organized by the artists' organization Artistes Libres, together with Eugene Spiro and other prominent émigré artists. In 1939, Gertrud re-married Georg Bernhard, the noted journalist, in France. In 1940, Bernhard was interned in the internment camp of Bassens near Bordeaux. Both Gertrud and Georg Bernhard came to New York in 1941 with the help of Varian Fry, who secured a visa for them. Georg passed away in 1944. Gertrud’s son Herbert and his wife Gys soon emigrated to New York as well, settling in Forrest Hills, Queens. Gertrud continued painting the rest of her life. She moved to Ridgefield, CT to live with her son and daughter-in law in her final years, passing away in 1962.

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Sax-Bernhard, Gertrud: Georg Bernhard, the artist's husband, Leo Baeck Institute, 77.51.