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    Artist

  • Kohl, Hans, 1897-1990

    • Title

  • Synagogue interior : Magenza, Jewish Mainz

  • Physical Description

    Etching : ink on paper ; 11" x 13.4" (28 x 34 cm.)

  • Date

    1928

  • Notes

    “Magenza” was the Hebrew word for the city of Mainz.

  • Summary

    View of the corner of the synagogue, filled with pews and candelabras. - Signed in lower right.

  • Subject

    Jews, German; Synagogues

  • Place

    Mainz (Germany)

  • Medium

    Etchings; Prints

  • Part Of

    Magenza: fünf Radierungen aus dem jüdischen Mainz., 78.1833

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Biographical/Historical Information

In 1912, the Jewish congregation in Mainz consecrated a new, main synagogue. It was one of three Mainz synagogues destroyed during Kristallnacht in 1938.

The painter and graphic artist Hans Kohl was born in Mainz in 1897. He studied at the Academy in Munich from 1915 to 1923 and then worked primarily as a portraitist in and around Mainz. He also became well known for two early portfolios, “Das goldene Mainz” (“Golden Mainz”); and "Magenza -5 Radierungen aus dem Jüdischen Mainz" (“Magenza – five etchings from Jewish Mainz”). Hans Kohl died in Hambach in 1990.

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Kohl, Hans: Synagogue interior : Magenza, Jewish Mainz, Leo Baeck Institute, 78.1833e.