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    Artist

  • Unknown Artist

    • Title

  • Portrait of Friedrich Pollak

  • Physical Description

    1 painting : oil on canvas ; 28 1/2" x 23 1/2", 72.3 cm x 59.7 cm

  • Date

    late 19th century

  • Notes

    Companion portrait to 2024.180

    Information about the sitter's biography came from the book "Gone with the gypsies, my mother, o!" by Thomas Anninger, call number st 16532. The portrait is featured on page 86.

  • Summary

    Oval salon portrait in a gold rectangular frame, depicts an older man wearing a dark suit. He is balding and has a white handlebar mustache, goatee beard, and dark eyebrows. He is angled in a three quarters pose and faces to the viewer's left.

  • Depicted

    Pollak, Friedrich

  • Subject

    Men, Portraits

  • Genre

    Portraits

  • Medium

    Oil paintings; Paintings

  • Part Of

    Anninger Family Collection, AR 26162

  • Accession Number

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Biographical/Historical Information

Friedrich Pollak (1831-1914) was born in Wölking, in what was then southern Moravia. He was the second son and one of five children of Leopold Pollak (ca. 1796-1875) and Fanni Pollak (née Peschka) (ca. 1803-1863). Friedrich married Franziska (née Fischel) (1840-1907) in 1861, and they moved to Vienna. Working in textile manufacturing, Friedrich became successful enough to establish his own firm in 1875. He and Franziska had five children, two of whom took over his textile firm. His father Leopold moved into their house in Vienna until his own death in 1875. Coming from a family of observant Jews, Friedrich helped to finance and build a synagogue near their house in Vienna, the Schmalzhoftempel. He died at age 82 in 1914.

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Citation

Unknown Artist: Portrait of Friedrich Pollak, Leo Baeck Institute, 2024.179.