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    Title

  • Studio portrait of writer Georg Hirschfeld

  • Physical Description

    1 photograph : black-and-white

  • Date

    1899 March

  • Notes

    Dedication to "Liebes Fraeulein" by Georg Hirschfeld.

  • Depicted

    Hirschfeld, Georg, 1873-1943

  • Subject

    Authors; Portraits, Men

  • Genre

    Photographs

  • Part Of

    Georg Hirschfeld Collection, AR 3487

  • Accession Number

  • URL

Biographical/Historical Information

The playwright and novelist Georg Hirschfeld was born in Berlin in 1873, the son of a businessman whose factory he managed, before encompassing on a literary career with his first drama “Die Mütter” [The mothers] about Berlin’s Jewish middle class. The play was a big success in 1896 and many years after. Georg Hirschfeld died in Munich in 1942 (?).

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Citation

Studio portrait of writer Georg Hirschfeld, Leo Baeck Institute, F 2491.