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    Artist

  • Kurringer, Florian

    • Title

  • [Portrait of Bernard Ettinger]

  • Physical Description

    1 painting : oil on canvas ; 30.5" x 26.75" ; 78 x 68 cm. +, frame (34.5" x 30.5")

  • Date

    1851

  • Notes

    Signed and dated by artist in lower left-hand corner.

    Companion piece to the painted portrait of his wife Jeanette Frank (2018.59). Another view of Bernard Ettinger can be found in a print (2018.61).

  • Summary

    Half-length portrait of Bernard Ettinger as a young man. He has black hair parted on the side. He sits in a red upholstered chair and holds a letter. He is dressed formally in a white shirt, black, cravat, black vest, and shawl jacket with three round fabric covered buttons. He wears a gold chain, stick pin, and two gold rings on his left hand. The letter in his hand reads: "Ichenhausen d 9/12 51".

  • Depicted

    Ettinger, Bernard

  • Subject

    Nineteenth century; Men, Portraits

  • Genre

    Portraits

  • Medium

    Paintings; Oil paintings

  • Part Of

    Ettinger and Bernheimer family trees,, AR 11054

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Biographical/Historical Information

Bernard Ettinger was born December 31, 1809 in Ichenhausen, a small town in Bavaria. He married Jeanette Frank Ettinger around 1843, and they had eight children. The family immigrated to New York City. He died March 25, 1902.

Florian Kurringer was born in Ichenhausen between 1805 and 1809. Aside from his study of art in nearby Munich in 1829, Kurringer spent most of his life working as an artist in his native town. He painted portraits as well as religious subjects for local churches. There are very few known works by the artist. He died in 1877.

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Kurringer, Florian: [Portrait of Bernard Ettinger], Leo Baeck Institute, 2018.58.