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    Artist

  • Unknown Artist

    • Title

  • Portrait of Zadok Löb Dörzbacher-Koch

  • Physical Description

    1 painting : oil on canvas ; 64 x 53 cm

  • Date

    circa 1830

  • Summary

    Portrait shows an older man wearing a dark suit and tie with a white shirt. He wears a black hat or skull cap, and white tufts of white hair stick out from under the hat. He sits at three-quarters angle, facing the viewer. A companion portrait to this piece showing the sitter's wife, Blümle Dörzbacher-Koch, can be found at call number 2003.55.

  • Provenance

    The painting was owned at one time by Eugen Fellheim, owner of an optical business named Gebrüder Koch in Stuttgart. It is very likely that the store must have been owned previously by the sons of Blümle and Zadok Dörzbacher-Koch. After Eugen and Rosa Fellheim's death, the painting hung in the home of Dr. Walter and Marie Denison and was then shipped from Switzerland to their son in the United States.

  • Depicted

    Koch, Zadok Löb Dörzbacher

  • Subject

    Jewish men, Germany, Portraits

  • Genre

    Portraits

  • Medium

    Paintings; Oil paintings

  • Part Of

    Ann Dorzback Family Collection, AR 11410

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Biographical/Historical Information

Zadok Doerzbacher-Koch (1783-1852) was the paternal great-grandfather of Albert Einstein's mother, Pauline Einstein, née Koch.

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Citation

Unknown Artist: Portrait of Zadok Löb Dörzbacher-Koch, Leo Baeck Institute, 2003.56.