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    Artist

  • Unknown Artist

    • Title

  • Portrait of Ernst Rodewald

  • Physical Description

    1 drawing : charcoal on paper ; 15" x 11", + mat

  • Date

    1914

  • Notes

    dated (possibly April 16,1914) in the lower mid-right right corner, initialed (possibly CEB) in pencil

  • Summary

    Charcoal portrait shows a young man with a long, thin face and hair styled straight up. He is positioned in a three quarter position. He has a white collar and a jacket. The portrait is rendered thoughtfully, with much shading done on the subject's face. A sketch of his nose and lips is done in pencil in the lower right-hand corner.

  • Depicted

    Rodewald, Ernst

  • Genre

    Portraits

  • Medium

    Drawings; Charcoal drawings

  • Part Of

    Lisa Rodewald collection, AR 25916

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Biographical/Historical Information

Ernst Rodewald was born in the late 19th century in Germany. He served as a soldier in World War I. He then studied to be an architect at the Royal Academy of Art in Breslau after 1914. Ernst met his future wife, Lisa, at the academy. They married and their son, Claude, was born in 1921. The family moved to Berlin in 1928. Suffering from shell shock since serving as soldier, Ernst Rodewald committed suicide in 1934.

Though the artist's name is not known, the artist was likely a classmate of Ernst Rodewald's at the Royal Academy of Art in Breslau.

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Citation

Unknown Artist: Portrait of Ernst Rodewald, Leo Baeck Institute, 2020.19.