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    Artist

  • Unknown Artist

    • Title

  • Portrait of Sidney Rahn (1866-1930)

  • Physical Description

    1 painting : oil on canvas ; 113 x 99 cm. ; 44.5" x 38.8" +, frame

  • Date

    circa 1925

  • Notes

    Signed illegibly in upper right corner, possible "Gorstaski"

  • Summary

    Portrait of a man standing wearing a three piece suit and fedora. He leans against a table piled with books, hands clasped and gaze directed to the right.

  • Depicted

    Rahn, Sidney

  • Subject

    Hats; Books

  • Genre

    Portraits

  • Medium

    Paintings; Oil paintings

  • Part Of

    Rahn Family Collection, AR 25538

  • Accession Number

  • URL

Biographical/Historical Information

Sidney Rahn (1866-1930) owned a family metalworks business, M.S. Farrnbacher. The firm had been in the family for generations, originally owned by members of Rahn's mother's family, the Farrnbachers, and produced iron and metal products. Sidney married Johanna Goldmann and had three children. The Rahn family lived upstairs from the metalworks in Fürth, Germany. His son, Alfred, joined the business in 1928 and took over when Sidney died in 1930.

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Citation

Unknown Artist: Portrait of Sidney Rahn (1866-1930), Leo Baeck Institute, 2013.054.