Isidor Kaufmann (1853 – 1921) was an Austro-Hungarian painter of Jewish themes. Having devoted his career to genre painting, he traveled throughout Eastern Europe in search of scenes of Jewish, often Hasidic life.
Isidor Kaufmann was born in Hungary, part of the Austro Hungarian Empire in 1853. He worked as a bank clerk until his talent as an artist was discovered at the age of twenty-one. Andrassy was a generous patron who sponsored Kaufmann, enabling him to study at the Budapest Drawing School 1875-6; he subsequently studied painting at the Vienna Academy (1824-1897).
Kaufmann settled in Vienna, a wealthy city, capital of an Empire, he painted genre subjects, scenes of everyday life and historical subjects for which he found a ready market. In these works his quality of detail and studies as a draughtsman are apparent in the exceptional observation.
In the 1890’s he turned towards more specifically Jewish subjects, he travelled to Galica, Silesia, Moravia and Poland sketching life in the Jewish ghettoes, returning to his studio in Vienna to produce his highly finished panel paintings. In later years he was to portray rabbis and religious elders from the communities in the Eastern parts of the empire, figures with whom he became intrigued and in whose portrayals he would capture a spirituality and dignity.
Kaufmann exhibited widely throughout Europe; in 1897 he was awarded a medal in Munich, and received further awards in Berlin 1899 and in Paris at the Exposition Universalle in 1900.
© 2018. All images are copyrighted © by Isidor Kaufmann or assignee. The use of any image from this site is prohibited unless prior written permission is obtained.
Isidor Kaufmann was born in Hungary, part of the Austro Hungarian Empire in 1853. He worked as a bank clerk until his talent as an artist was discovered at the age of twenty-one. Andrassy was a generous patron who sponsored Kaufmann, enabling him to study at the Budapest Drawing School 1875-6; he subsequently studied painting at the Vienna Academy (1824-1897).
Kaufmann settled in Vienna, a wealthy city, capital of an Empire, he painted genre subjects, scenes of everyday life and historical subjects for which he found a ready market. In these works his quality of detail and studies as a draughtsman are apparent in the exceptional observation.
In the 1890’s he turned towards more specifically Jewish subjects, he travelled to Galica, Silesia, Moravia and Poland sketching life in the Jewish ghettoes, returning to his studio in Vienna to produce his highly finished panel paintings. In later years he was to portray rabbis and religious elders from the communities in the Eastern parts of the empire, figures with whom he became intrigued and in whose portrayals he would capture a spirituality and dignity.
Kaufmann exhibited widely throughout Europe; in 1897 he was awarded a medal in Munich, and received further awards in Berlin 1899 and in Paris at the Exposition Universalle in 1900.
© 2018. All images are copyrighted © by Isidor Kaufmann or assignee. The use of any image from this site is prohibited unless prior written permission is obtained.
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| Mr Isidor Kaufmann |
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| Business Transaction |
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| A Difficult Passage in the Talmud |
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| Jewish Bride |
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| A Talmudic student |
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| Yeshiva Boy |
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| Friday Evening |
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| Hannah |
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| Kykolnik |
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| Man With Fur Hat |
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| The High Priest's Tribe |
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| Portrait of a Young Jewish Man |
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| Portrait of a young Hasidic Jew |
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| Portrait of a Young Chassidic Boy |
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| Portrait of a Young Boy |
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| Portrait of a Woman |
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| portrait of a sephardic jew |
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| Portrait of a Rabbi |
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| Portrait of a Rabbi with tallit |
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| Portrait of a Rabbi with tallit II |
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| Portrait Of A Rabbi With A Young Pupil |
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| Portrait of a Rabbi |
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| Portrait of a Rabbi |
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| Portrait of a Rabbi |
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| Portrait of a man with streimel |
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| Portrait of a Man in a Shtreimel |
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| Portrait Of A Jewish Scholar |
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| Portrait of a Jewish boy |
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| Portrait of a Hassidic man |
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| portrait of a child |
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| Portrait of a Boy |
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| Portrait of a boy |
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| Portrait of Isidor Gewitsch |
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| Portrait of Juliette Kaufmann |
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| Portrait of Rabbi Wearing a Kittel and Tallith |
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| Preparation |
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| Rabbi studying Talmud |
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| Rabbi with prayer shawl |
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| Rabbi with Young Student, (detail) |
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| Reading Rabbi in the Courts of the Temple |
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| Seated Woman with a Fan, the Banker's Wife |
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| Talmudic Scholar |
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| The Bachelor's Birthday |
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| The chess player |
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| The Kabbalist |
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| The Man in Black |
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| The Newlywed |
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| The Profit |
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| The shoemaker |
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| Young Cavalier |
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| Untitled |
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| War Time Reminiscences |
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| Young Woman in the Synagogue |
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