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    Artist

  • Unknown Artist

    • Title

  • Photo portrait of Paul Taenzer as a child and Marie Taenzer

  • Physical Description

    1 portrait : photograph ; 21.5" x 16.25", 54.6 cm x 41.3 cm

  • Date

    circa 1899

  • Notes

    Note from previous owner on back of the portrait indicates the probable identity of the sitters

    the words "Gebr. Baehre" are written in the lower right hand corner. It's unclear to what this refers.

  • Summary

    Black and white portrait of small child of about two or three years old and an elderly lady. The child wears a white dress with white coat and hat. The lady (likely his grandmother) sits next him with one hand in her lap and the other hand on the arm of the chair. She wears a dark dress with ruffled collar and puffed sleeves, a light skirt or apron, and she has a necklace, ring, and earrings. The small child looks to the side while the woman looks at the viewer.

  • Depicted

    Taenzer, Marie, 1843-1906; Taenzer, Paul, 1897-1945

  • Subject

    Women, Portraits; Portraits, Children

  • Genre

    Photographs; Portraits

  • Part Of

    Erwin Taenzer Collection; addendum, AR 26067; Erwin Taenzer Collection, AR 25675

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Biographical/Historical Information

Marie Taenzer (née Schlesinger) was born around 1843. She married Rabbi Heinrich Taenzer and had two children: Bernhard in 1863 and Aron in 1871. Marie worked as a midwife for the Jewish community in Pressburg, Hungary (now Bratislava, Slovakia). Paul (the child in the picture) was her first grandchild. She died in Pressburg in 1906.

Paul Taenzer was born in 1897 in Hohenems, Austria. His parents were Dr. Aron Taenzer and Eleonore Rosa Taenzer. His mother died in 1912. He had three siblings (Fritz, Irene, and Hugo) and two half-siblings (Erwin and Ilse) from his father's second marriage. Dr. Taenzer served as rabbi in Hohenems and then in the German town of Göppingen until his death in 1937. Paul Taenzer married Irma Marx and died in Tel Aviv, Israel around 1945.

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Citation

Unknown Artist: Photo portrait of Paul Taenzer as a child and Marie Taenzer, Leo Baeck Institute, 2023.97.