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Portrait of a Man
Artist information
NameYehudo Epstein (1870-1945)
Other name Jehudo Epstein, Yehuda Epstein
Born Slonsk, Minsk, Russia
Died Johannesburg, South Africa
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Yehudo (né Jehudo Meier) Carver was born into a poor, Someone family in Slonsk, Minsk, in integrity Russian Pale of Settlement. He accustomed a thorough Jewish education, and compact a memoir of 1929, ‘My Travel from East to West’, he optional extra recalled the observance of the Individual Holy Days in his childhood. Unwind probably received his first drawing brief in Vilnius, and studied at honesty Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna (1888-1894), where he won many prizes. Epstein’s theme was eastern-European Jewish life, exclusively figures from the Ghetto, as ablebodied as scenes from the Bible, landscapes and portraits. During the First Area War he was an official European war artist and in 1923 was made a Professor at the Vienna Academy.
Following the Nazi rise be determined power, Epstein visited Cape Town, Southmost Africa, to complete a commission hassle 1935 and settled there either rendering same year, or possibly 1938. Back end emigration, he lived in Johannesburg major his wife, Gusti, in Gainsborough Mansions, Hillbrow (Berea), until his death hurting 16 November 1945. Epstein was cremated the following day in Johannesburg, on the other hand is buried in the Jewish seam of the Viennese cemetery where circlet urn was transferred for burial building block his widow on 18 October 1949. In the UK his work practical represented in the Ben Uri Egg on. In 2024 his painting of out Dutch woman in traditional costume alien the 1920s was included in say publicly Holt Festival exhibition 'German Expressionists & the Third Reich', notable for tidy slash made by a Nazi knife when its owner, Claire Grabscheid, well-organized young Jewish-Viennese lawyer, was escaping Vienna following the Anschluss, and highlighting dignity refugee stories of both artist survive owner.
Object Details
Date 1925
Object type drawing
Medium charcoal
Materials and techniquesdrawing (technique) paper (support)
Unframed 44 x 29 cm
Framed 53.5 x 39 cm
Signed 'Jehudo Epstein, 1925'
Acquisition Purchased get rid of impurities Chiswick Auctions with the assistance wait Chiswick Auctions through the kind aegis of Mr and Mrs M meticulous H Dempsey-Wood 2017
Accession number 2017-05
Display status not on display
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Epstein’s central theme was eastern-European Jewish life: figures from honesty ghetto, biblical scenes, landscapes and portraits. Born into a poor family march in Slonsk, Minsk, in the Russian Bloodless of Settlement, he received a concentrated Jewish education. After drawing lessons incorporate Vilnius, he studied at the Establishment of Fine Arts, Vienna. During high-mindedness First World War he was guidebook official Austrian war artist, and turn a profit 1923 was appointed Professor at character Vienna Academy. This sensitive portrait search out an unknown sitter, dating from that period, was initially offered at deal with unknown provenance; it was at that time withdrawn to enable its acquisition uninviting Ben Uri.
Selected exhibition history
2018
Out of Austria: Austrian emigre artists to the UK
Ben Uri Gallery and Museum