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    Artist

  • Unknown Artist

    • Title

  • Portrait of Mendel Wolf Weigert

  • Physical Description

    1 drawing : pastel on board ; 26.25" x 21" ; 66.5 x 54 cm

  • Date

    between 1820 and 1848

  • Notes

    Name of sitter and dates of life given on a label on the bottom of the original frame: "Mendel Wolf Weigert 1781...1848".

  • Summary

    Weigert is shown as a middle-aged man wearing a brown coat against a dark background. The work is signed in the bottom right corner by one of the Henschel brothers, though it is faint.

  • Depicted

    Weigert, Mendel Wolf, 1791-1848

  • Subject

    Men, Portraits

  • Genre

    Portraits

  • Medium

    Drawings; Pastels

  • Accession Number

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Biographical/Historical Information

Mendel Wolf Weigert was believed to be born in Bischdorf around 1779-1781. He married Reise or Reize Breslauer (1780-1840), and they had several children. Mendel worked as a master tailor in Rosenberg, Upper Silesia, and later in Breslau, where he died in 1848.

Wilhelm Henschel (1785-1865) and his brothers, Friedrich, August, and Moritz, were a team of academic artists known as “Gebrüder Henschel” (Henschel Brothers). They were descendents of a Jewish family in Prussian Silesia.

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Citation

Unknown Artist: Portrait of Mendel Wolf Weigert, Leo Baeck Institute, 2015.05.