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    Artist

  • Isenstein, Harald K., 1898-1980

    • Title

  • [Bust of Ursula Fels as a Child]

  • Physical Description

    1 bust : marble ; 12" x 11"x 8", 30.4 cm x 28 cm x 20.3 cm

  • Date

    1915

  • Summary

    Bust of Ursula Fels as a child of about three or four years old, done in white marble. She has short curly hair and is depicted from the shoulders.

  • Depicted

    Eisenstein, Ursula (née Fels)

  • Subject

    Portraits, Children

  • Genre

    Portraits

  • Medium

    Sculpture; Heads

  • Part Of

    Harald Isenstein – Ursula Fels Collection, AR 12138

  • Accession Number

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Biographical/Historical Information

Ursula (Ursel) Fels was born June 15, 2013 to a Jewish family in Germany. In 1936 at age 23, Ursula left Berlin with her boyfriend Martin Eisenstein to move to Johannesburg, South Africa in order to escape rising Nazi persecution. Ursula’s father (divorced from her mother) had already left in 1933 for the United States with his son Klaus. Her mother Eva was murdered in Auschwitz at age 50 in 1942. Ursula and Martin married and ultimately had three children. Ursula worked as a window dresser and commercial designer for ads, and Martin worked for a mining company in Johannesburg.

Harald Isenstein was a German-Jewish artist, best known for his sculptural busts of prominent personalities. Born in Hannover on August 13, 1898, he studied at the Academy of Arts in Berlin, before co-founding and teaching at the private Jewish Reimann School of Art. He also co-founded the Volks-Kunstschule in 1925. As a professional sculptor, he produced the bust of Albert Einstein in front of the Einstein Tower in Potsdam. In 1934 he emigrated to Denmark, then emigrated to Sweden in 1943, before returning to Copenhagen in 1946. Isenstein died in Copenhagen on February 3, 1980. Most of his works can be found at the Museum of Korsør in Denmark.

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Isenstein, Harald K.: [Bust of Ursula Fels as a Child], Leo Baeck Institute, 2022.05.