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    Artist

  • Unknown Artist

    • Title

  • [Miniature Portrait of Alice Pinkus]

  • Physical Description

    1 miniature portrait : photograph, paint, glass ; 7/8" x 5/8" ; 3 cm x 2 cm

  • Date

    early 20th century

  • Notes

    Companion piece to the miniature portrait of Alice's brother sister, Klaus Pinkus (2018.41a)

  • Summary

    The sitter is a young woman of about sixteen years old. She wears a white high collar blouse and has long curly hair; she faces to her left. The portrait is glued to a glass cover and may once have been part of a brooch or other piece of jewelry.

  • Depicted

    Pinkus, Alice, LBI

  • Subject

    Women, Portraits

  • Genre

    Photographs; Portraits

  • Medium

    Portraits

  • Part Of

    John Peters Pinkus Family Papers, AR 25520; John Peters Pinkus Family Paper, AR 25520

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Biographical/Historical Information

Alice Babette Caecilie Pinkus was born February 6, 1889. Alice was the daughter of Max Pinkus, a noted patron of the arts and literature and of commercial, political, and civic life in Neustadt and Upper Silesia generally. Alice married Hans Hersfeld in 1911 and had two children.

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Citation

Unknown Artist: [Miniature Portrait of Alice Pinkus], Leo Baeck Institute, 2018.41b.