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painting oil paint wood
9 October 2013 – 12 January 2014
2014-01-12
9 October 2013 – 12 January 2014
2014-01-12
2013-10-09
National Gallery (London, UK)
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2013-10-09
The Portrait in Vienna 1900
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1 May 2023 – 30 September 2024
2024-09-30
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2024-09-30
2023-05-01
Hartsheath (Mold, Wales)
2023-05-01
The Young Rabbi by Isidor Kaufmann
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Young Rabbi from N.
support: 381 × 276 mm
frame: 560 × 457 × 58 mm
Presented by Viscount Bearsted through the <a href="/search?gid=999999968" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Art Fund</a> 1929
<p><b>Isidor Kaufmann</b> 1853-1921</p>
<p><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/kaufmann-young-rabbi-from-n-n04464" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N04464</span></a> <b>Young Rabbi from N.</b> <i>c</i>.1910</p>
<p>Inscribed 'Isidor Kaufmann' b.r. 
<br/>Oil on panel, 15 x 10 7/8 (38 x 27.5) 
<br/>Presented by Viscount Bearsted through the NACF 1929 
<br/><i>Prov</i>: Österreichische Galerie, Vienna, 1910; with Kunstverlag Wolfrum, Vienna, 1924; Viscount Bearsted, London 
<br/><i>Exh: 36. Jahresausstellung des Wiener K?nstlerhauses</i>, Vienna, 1910 (217); <i>Fortieth Anniversary Exhibition</i>, Ben Uri Art Gallery, London, June-July 1956 (53, repr.) as 'Rabbinical Scholar'; <i>Max Liebermann 1847-1935, Isidor Kaufmann 1853-1921, Lesser Ury 1862-1931</i>..., Ben Uri Art Gallery, London, November 1968 (36) 
<br/><i>Repr</i>: Hermann Menkes, <i>Isidor Kaufmann</i> (Vienna 1925), pl.10 in colour as 'Junger Rabbiner aus N.'; <i>NACF: Twenty-Sixth Annual Report, 1929</i> (London 1930), p.46</p>
<p>This appeared in the Tate's 1934 Modern Foreign School Catalogue under the incorrect title 'The Teacher'; it has also been known as 'The Pupil' and 'The Rabbinical Scholar'. The sitter was a pupil of a then famous Rabbi in Sadgora, Poland. As it is actually forbidden for Orthodox Jews to have their images taken, either by <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/photograph" title="Glossary definition for 'Photograph'"><span>photography</span></a> or <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>painting</span></a>, special permission had to be obtained from the Chief Rabbi and it invariably took a very long time to finish a painting of this type as the persons concerned were only available when no service was taking place. (Information from the artist's son George Kaufmann, 5 January 1959).</p>
<p>The Österreichische Galerie handed over this picture to the dealers Kunstverlag Wolfrum in 1924 in part-exchange for another work.</p>
<p><b>Published in</b>: 
<br/>Ronald Alley, <i>Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists</i>, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, pp.382-3, reproduced p.382</p>

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2004-09-15T00:00:00
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adults clothing and personal items fine arts and music hat Hebrew text individuals: male inscriptions man nationality objects people Polish portraits rabbi religious society symbols and personifications tapestry work and occupations