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    Artist

  • Sommer, Helene Edinger

    • Title

  • Portrait of Bertha Pappenheim

    • Other Title(s)

  • Jugendbild von Bertha Pappenheim

  • Physical Description

    1 painting : oil on canvas ; 18 ¼" x 15 3/16", 35 x 27 cm

  • Notes

    A note on the painting’s stretcher identifies the portrait’s artist as "D. Edinger", but it was most likely the amateur painter Helene Edinger (subsequently Sommer), aunt of Dora Edinger (1890-1977), who was Pappenheim’s first biographer.

  • Depicted

    Pappenheim, Bertha, 1859-1936

  • Subject

    Social reformers, Austria, Portraits

  • Genre

    Portraits

  • Medium

    Paintings; Oil paintings

  • Accession Number

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Biographical/Historical Information

Bertha Pappenheim was born in Vienna, Austria in 1859. After her father’s death in 1881, Bertha Pappenheim became a patient of Sigmund Freud, who later referred to her in his writings as Anna O. Politically active as a Jewish woman, Bertha von Pappenheim founded the Jewish Women's Association (Jüdischer Frauenbund) in 1905. In 1907 she founded a home for unwanted girls and unmarried mothers and their children in Neu Isenburg. Bertha Pappenheim fought against international white slavery of women and founded clubs where young women could get help. She died in Neu-Isenburg in 1936.

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Citation

Sommer, Helene Edinger: Portrait of Bertha Pappenheim, Leo Baeck Institute, 77.57.