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    Artist

  • Ingel, Richard

    • Title

  • [Portrait of a man] : [assumed to be Hans Wertheimer]

  • Physical Description

    Drawing : pastel on paper ; 20.875" x 16" ; 53 x 41 cm

  • Date

    1936

  • Summary

    The man (assumed to be Hans Wertheimer) is shown in profile view, wearing a white shirt and a striped tie. Signed and dated under the shirt collar.

  • Depicted

    Wertheimer, Hans

  • Subject

    Men, Portraits

  • Genre

    Portraits

  • Medium

    Drawings; Pastels

  • Part Of

    Richard Ingel Collection, AR 25408

  • Accession Number

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Biographical/Historical Information

Hans Wertheimer was a German-Jewish businessman, who was a survivor of the Dachau concentration camp. He and his wife, Margot Malachowski Wertheimer, immgrated to the U.S. where he worked as an insurance broker.

Richard Ingel was a German portrait painter, whose speciality was his ability to complete drawings in one sitting. He primarily painted celebrities, politicians, and royalty in Berlin. In 1935, he and his family moved to Baden-Baden and then immigrated to the Netherlands in 1937 to escape Nazi rule. However, he was forced by the Gestapo to divorce his wife and was arrested along with his son, Ralph, and forced to work in Germany. After the war, he went back to painting and attempted to immigrate back to the Netherlands with his son, but the plan was halted when Ingel died in 1947.

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Ingel, Richard: [Portrait of a man] : [assumed to be Hans Wertheimer], Leo Baeck Institute, 2010.36.