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    Artist

  • Westfeld, Max

    • Title

  • Portrait of Julius Blumenthal

  • Physical Description

    1 painting : oil on canvas ; 32.5" x 27.5" , 82.6 x 69.8 cm

  • Date

    circa 1930

  • Summary

    Julius Blumenthal is depicted as a middle-aged man sitting in a wooden chair. He wears a dark suit and glasses and occupies most of the picture plane, with an undetailed background of varying shades of gray-green. One hand is casually in his pant pocket, while the other holds a cigar.

  • Depicted

    Blumenthal, Julius

  • Subject

    Men, Portraits; Nineteen thirties

  • Genre

    Portraits

  • Medium

    Paintings; Oil paintings

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Biographical/Historical Information

Max Westfeld was a noted German portrait artist. He also painted still lives and landscapes, mainly of the lower Rhine and Westphalia countryside. Westfeld was born in 1882 in Herford and studied in Düsseldorf. He and his son, Gerd immigrated to the United States in 1939 and settled in Nashville, TN; they took on the name Westfield. One of Max Westfeld’s best known works is a portrait of Albert Einstein, which hangs at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, VA. Max Westfeld died in 1971.

Julius Blumenthal was a co-owner of the grocery wholesale business, Josef Falk, in Hamm. He was also the last president of the Jewish Community of Hamm. He died in Auschwitz in 1943.

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Citation

Westfeld, Max: Portrait of Julius Blumenthal, Leo Baeck Institute, 2006.1.