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Biographical/Historical Information

The commercial artist Emil Ranzenhofer (1864-1930) was born into a Jewish family in Vienna. Starting in 1880, he studied at Vienna’s Akademie der Bildenden Künste. Ranzenhofer designed primarily posters, book illustrations, postcards, and bookplates based on his watercolors, oil paintings, and etchings. He also designed fund raising certificates used by the Jewish National Fund, and as volunteer in World War I, Ranzenhofer depicted war scenes for the Austrian-Hungarian Kriegspressequartier [War Press Headquarters].

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Ranzenhofer, Emil: Leopoldstädter Tempel / Emil Ranzenhofer, 1902, Leo Baeck Institute, F 19387.