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    Artist

  • Kahn, Alfred, 1899-1983

    • Title

  • [Portrait of Abraham Kahn]

  • Physical Description

    1 drawing : charcoal and white chalk on paper ; 24 x 32 cm, 9 1/2 x 12 in

  • Place of Publication

    1917.

  • Notes

    Signature in the lower right hand corner of the page. The initials A.K. and date 22.IV.17 (April 22, 1917) appear on the right of the image.

  • Summary

    This portrait shows a man wearing a suit and neck tie. He has a large dark mustache and eyebrows, while his hair has some white to it. The right side of his face has a slight shadow cast upon it, and his eyes glance to his right. The portrait is done in a loose sketch, but the detail around the facial features are fine.

  • Depicted

    Kahn, Abraham

  • Subject

    Men, Portraits

  • Genre

    Portraits

  • Medium

    Drawings

  • Part Of

    Carol Kahn Strauss Family Collection 1826-1999, AR 25211

  • Accession Number

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Biographical/Historical Information

The subject of the portrait is Abraham Kahn (1866-1919). Abraham worked as a businessman in Dortmund. In 1895, Abraham married Wilhelmine Strauss, and the couple had two sons, Walter and Alfred.

The artist of this portrait is Alfred Kahn, who was born in 1899. Alfred entered Realgymnasium in Dortmund in 1910. He served in the German army during World War I. After the end of the war, Alfred completed his final examinations at his Realgymnasium and found a job in an iron wholesale business. He left this job to study law at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, and eventually earned a law degree from the University of Erlangen in 1930. Alfred’s nascent legal career was cut short after the Nazi party took power in 1933. In 1937, he married Lotte Landau. In December 1938, Alfred and Lotte immigrated via Holland to the United States and settled in New York City. He and Lotte started a family in New York, and he established a law practice specializing in restitution claims. Alfred died in New York in 1983.

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Kahn, Alfred: [Portrait of Abraham Kahn], Leo Baeck Institute, 2017.06.