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    Artist

  • Stern, Murray

    • Title

  • Portrait of Thomas Robitscher

  • Physical Description

    Drawing : Charcoal on wove paper ; 19 in. x 13 in. ; 48.3 centimeters x 33 centimeters

  • Date

    1972

  • Notes

    Inscribed "To Dr. Robitscher / Murray Stern" and signed and dated in lower right.

  • Summary

    Head and shoulder of subject, depicted wearing glasses and an open collar.

  • Genre

    Portraits

  • Medium

    Drawings; Charcoal drawings

  • Part Of

    Robitscher Family Collection, AR 25012

  • Accession Number

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Biographical/Historical Information

Thomas Otto Robitscher was born in Karlsbad, Czeckoslovakia, in 1924. When the Nazis took over Czechoslovakia in 1939, Thomas, aged 15, escaped with his mother to Bolivia, where he worked for various industrial companies. Thomas arrived in the U.S. on a student visa in 1947 to study at Syracuse University, then went on to study medicine at Boston University. He was awarded his MD in 1954 and worked at New York's Rosevelt Hospital. Unable to follow his profession without being a US citizen he worked in pharmacological research. His efforts to acquire U.S citizenship were troubled by suspicions about previous political affiliations with leftist groups in Bolivia and by the fact that his mother was a communist. He finally received U.S. citizenship in 1961. Thomas Robitscher was married through common-law marriage to Anne Kelemen. He died in 1974.

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Stern, Murray: Portrait of Thomas Robitscher, Leo Baeck Institute, 2007.20.