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    Artist

  • Feist, Herbert, 1903-1981

    • Title

  • Portrait of a man

    • Other Title(s)

  • [Otto Simon]

  • Physical Description

    1 drawing : charcoal, pencil and white chalk on paper ; 17" x 13 3/16" ; 44 x 34 cm

  • Date

    1940

  • Notes

    Dated December 26, 1940 and signed lower right.

  • Summary

    Portrait of Otto Simon, a stern looking gentleman with thick white hair. He has deep set dark eyes and is staring out at the viewer.

  • Depicted

    Simon, Otto

  • Subject

    Men; Portraits

  • Genre

    Portraits

  • Medium

    Drawings; Charcoal drawings

  • Part Of

    Edith and Herbert Feist family collection, AR 25468

  • Accession Number

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Biographical/Historical Information

Otto Simon was born in 1881 in Mannheim, where he was a lawyer. He immigrated to the United States in 1939.

Herbert Feist was born in Mannheim, Germany. He married Edith Gruenthal in 1934 and immigrated to the U.S. in 1936. He became a patent attorney and in the 1960's opened an art gallery on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. He expressed his life long love of music in his many sketches of musicians and was also an amateur musician. Herbert Feist died in N.Y. in 1981.

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Feist, Herbert: Portrait of a man, Leo Baeck Institute, 2011.020.