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    Artist

  • Unknown Artist

    • Title

  • The execution of Vincent Fettmilch in 1616

  • Physical Description

    1 print : engraving ; 11.7" x 14.6" (30 x 37 cm.)

  • Date

    17th century

  • Summary

    The main scene shows an open plaza with a platform on which Fettmilch, the instigator of the 1614 Fettmilch uprising in Frankfurt, is seated while the executioner is ready to swing his ax. Other vignettes show details of the occasion, including a winding military procession escorting the Jews back into the city. Original print was done with a crease in the paper, resulting in a white crack in the center of the print.

  • Depicted

    Fettmilch, Vincent, -1616

  • Subject

    Seventeenth century; Antisemitism; Executions; Jews, Germany, History, 1096-1800

  • Place

    Frankfurt am Main (Germany)

  • Medium

    Prints; Engravings

  • Part Of

    Sally Bodenheimer Collection, AR 7169

  • Accession Number

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Biographical/Historical Information

Vincent Fettmilch was a grocer and baker, who moved to Frankfurt in 1602, and is best known for leading a pogrom against Jews. His birth year is unknown. He led the Fettmilch uprisings (1612-1616), which lead to the storming of the Judengasse, (Jew’s lane) on August 22, 1614. The Jews of Frankfurt were expelled for two years, until 1616, when the emperor intervened, retaking the city, and issuing an imperial ban on Fettmilch and his co-conspirators, Konrad Gerngross, a joiner, and Conrad Schopp, a tailor. Imperial soldiers guided the Jews back into Frankfurt, and Fettmilch was put to death in the Horse Market on February 28th, 1616. This had been one of the last pogroms in Germany, until the rise of the Nazi party in the 20th century.

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Citation

Unknown Artist: The execution of Vincent Fettmilch in 1616, Leo Baeck Institute, 82.6.