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    Artist

  • Allers, Christian Wilhelm

    • Title

  • Portrait of Wilhelm Anninger

  • Physical Description

    1 reproduction print : ink on paper ; 20 in x 16 in, 50.7 cm x 41 cm

  • Date

    1899

  • Notes

    Signature of the artist and name of the sitter are printed at the bottom of the print. 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 77.

    Duplicate of a portrait (another reproduction) found at call number 2024.184.

  • Summary

    Portrait of a middle aged man with eye glasses, a moustache and beard. He wears a suit with a bow tie and a high collar. He is seated at a three quarters angle facing to the left of the viewer. This appears to be a reproduction print because the paper surface is smooth.

  • Depicted

    Anninger, Wilhelm

  • Subject

    Men, Portraits

  • Genre

    Portraits

  • Medium

    Facsimiles; Reproductions

  • Part Of

    Anninger Family Collection, AR 26162

  • Accession Number

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Biographical/Historical Information

Wilhelm Anninger (1848-1918) was born as Wilhelm Abeles, the eldest son of David Abeles (1811-1911) and Sybville "Sophie" Abeles (née Loewy) (ca. 1814-1911). He was born in Waltsch in Bohemia (now part of the Czech Republic), and at age thirteen traveled to Vienna for work in 1861. Wilhelm had married Charlotte (née Schlesinger) (1854-1875) in 1871, and with money from Charlotte's father had founded a cotton-brokering business, Wm. Abeles & Co., also in 1871. He also helped to found the buisness society, Wiener Kaufmaennischer Verein. Charlotte died after the birth of their second child, and Wilhelm and then remarried Doris (née Janovski) (1852-1924) in 1876; Wilhelm overall had seven children. He changed the family name from Abeles to the less Jewish-sounding name Anninger in 1888, though he never changed the name of the business from Wm. Abeles & Co. Wilhelm's first son, Otto, later took over the family business as a senior partner. Wilhelm died in 1918.

Christian Wilhelm Allers (6 August 1857 – 19 October 1915) was a German painter and printmaker.

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Citation

Allers, Christian Wilhelm: Portrait of Wilhelm Anninger, Leo Baeck Institute, 2024.182.