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    Artist

  • Unknown Artist

    • Title

  • [Miniature portrait of Klaus 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 Klaus's sister, Alice Pinkus (2018.41b)

  • Summary

    The sitter is a boy of about ten years old. He has blond hair, wears a blue sailor suit, and faces to his right. The portrait is glued to a glass cover and may once have been part of a brooch or other piece of jewelry.

  • Depicted

    Pinkus, Klaus

  • Subject

    Men, Portraits

  • Genre

    Photographs; Portraits

  • Medium

    Portraits

  • Part Of

    John Peters Pinkus Family Papers, AR 25520

  • Accession Number

  • URL

Biographical/Historical Information

Klaus Valentin Pinkus was born January 18, 1895. Klaus was the son of Max Pinkus, a noted patron of the arts and literature and of commercial, political, and civic life in Neustadt and Upper Silesia generally. Klaus married Erika Plehn in Berlin in 1934.

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Citation

Unknown Artist: [Miniature portrait of Klaus Pinkus], Leo Baeck Institute, 2018.41a.