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    Artist

  • Unknown Artist

    • Title

  • Portrait of Rose Regensteiner

  • Physical Description

    1 painting : oil on canvas ; 18" x 17 1/4" ; 46 cm x 43 cm +, frame (20 1/8" x 19 1/4")

  • Place of Publication

    early 20th century.

  • Notes

    Illegible signature in lower left hand corner.

  • Summary

    A young woman seated in three-quarter profile. She has dark brown hair pulled back and wears a white lace dress.

  • Depicted

    Regensteiner, Rose

  • Subject

    Women; Jewish women, Portraits

  • Genre

    Portraits

  • Medium

    Paintings; Oil paintings

  • Part Of

    Henry Regensteiner collection, AR 25717

  • Accession Number

  • URL

Biographical/Historical Information

Rose (Rosalie) Regensteiner (née Scheier) was born in Dresden, Germany in 1896. She was the daughter of Morris and Nataly (née Landau) Scheier. Rose was the wife of the ophthalmologist Dr. Martin Regensteiner and mother of Heinrich (Henry) and Egon (who died young at age 7). The family escaped Nazi Germany in 1938 and settled in New York City in the Inwood neighborhood. Rose died in New York in 1942 at age 45.

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Citation

Unknown Artist: Portrait of Rose Regensteiner, Leo Baeck Institute, 2017.16.