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    Artist

  • Ulmann, Agnes, 1875-1942

    • Title

  • Portrait of Jakob Wassermann

  • Physical Description

    1 painting : oil on canvas ; 14.25" x 11.5" ; 36.2 cm x 29.2 cm., + frame (17.5" x 15")

  • Date

    early 20th century

  • Summary

    Portrait shows the subject as a young man, facing his right. The sitter has brown hair parted on the side and a mustache, and he wears a brown suit with a black bow tie. The paint is applied to the canvas in broad, bold strokes. Some parts of the canvas (especially in the corners) are left bare.

  • Depicted

    Wassermann, Jakob, 1873-1934

  • Subject

    Authors, German

  • Genre

    Portraits

  • Medium

    Oil paintings

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Biographical/Historical Information

Jakob Wassermann (March 10, 1873 - January 1, 1934) was a Jewish-German writer and novelist. Wassermann's work includes poetry, essays, novels, and short stories. His most important works are considered to be the novel ‘Der Fall Maurizius’ (1928) and his autobiography, ‘Mein Weg als Deutscher und Jude’ (My Life as a German and a Jew; 1921).

The painter, graphic artist and sculptor Agnes Ulmann née Speyer was born in Vienna in 1875. She studied art in Austria and in Paris, France with some of the most prominent artists of her time. In 1910, she moved to Munich, where her house became a well-attended cultural salon, and she was friends with authors Arthur Schnitzler, Hugo Hofmannsthal, and Thomas Mann. Agnes Ulmann immigrated to the U.S. in 1939 and died in New York in 1942.

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Ulmann, Agnes: Portrait of Jakob Wassermann, Leo Baeck Institute, 2022.16.