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    Artist

  • Schröder, Johann W.

    • Title

  • [Portrait of Schemaja Maas]

  • Physical Description

    1 painting : tempera on tin ; 10" x 7 3/4" ; 25 x 20 cm

  • Date

    circa 1820

  • Notes

    The Leo Baeck Institute art collection has portraits by the same artist, of other members of the family: two versions of Hale Meyer portraits (cataloged at 77.25a and 2017.12) and a portrait of Samuel Meyer Ehrenberg (cataloged at 77.25b)

    Written on the back of the painting: Schemaja Maas. g. 1746, st. 1821. Vater der Gite Rosenzweig

    see also: Ehrenberg-Rosenzweig Family Collection, AR 4584, and the Papers of Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929), AR 3001

    Painting had a damaged frame that was discarded. A picture was taken of the label and is stored with the painting. The label says "Kunst Handlung an Rahmen-Lager von George Lotz, Cassel."

  • Summary

    Sitter wears a dark coat with an orange and green striped vest. He faces away from the viewer.

  • Depicted

    Maas, Schemaja, 1746-1821

  • Subject

    Nineteenth century; Men, Portraits

  • Genre

    Portraits

  • Medium

    Paintings; Tempera paintings

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Biographical/Historical Information

Schemaja Maas was born in 1746 in Cassel. He married Guetel (née) Landau. He had two children and was the uncle of Jewish educator Samuel Meyer Ehrenberg, who was his sister-in-law's son. He died in 1821.

The portrait of Hale Meyer (cataloged at 77.25a) painted by the same artist has an inscription engraved on the back of the frame (not a signature), giving the name of the painter as: "I.Schroeder, Maler." Since there seems to be no painter by that name active in 1815, if the inscription is correct, it suggests the hand of a goldsmith, Johannes Wilhelm Schroeder, 1784-1847, who worked in Lubeck.

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Citation

Schröder, Johann W.: [Portrait of Schemaja Maas], Leo Baeck Institute, 2017.13.