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Julius Rosenbaum 1897-1956

Portrait of Charlotte

oil on canvas

80 x 52

(lower left) 'Julius Rosenbaum'

1987-341

@Julius Rosenbaum estate

Photo: Bridgeman images

The sitter, Charlotte Melnikov (née Nissen), wife of Russian-born sculptor, Avram Melnikov, was also a painter and exhibited with Ben Uri in 1948. Julius Rosenbaum's wife Adele Reifenberg also painted...

Provenance

presented by Dr. Alec Lerner and Lord Marks, 1950

Exhibitions

Julius Rosenbaum 1879-1956 Memorial Exhibition;Paintings, Drawings etc., by Julius Rosenbaum 1903-1949, Adele Reifenberg 1915-1949, Ruth Collet (Recent Work);Migrations: masterworks from the Ben Uri Collection

Literature

'Finchleystrasse: German artists in exile in Great Britain and beyond 1933-45' (London: Ben Uri Gallery and Museum in association with the German Embassy London, 2018), p. 43.; Walter Schwabe and Julia Weiner, eds., Jewish Artists: the Ben Uri Collection - Paintings, Drawings, Prints and Sculpture (London: Ben Uri Art Society in association with Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd, 1994), p. 89.

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