Bilder aus dem Altjüdischen Familien-Leben

Estimate: $1,200–$1,800
Hammer price: $1,000

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author

OPPENHEIM, MORITZ.

printer

Heinrich Keller

Place

Frankfurt a/Main

Publication

1882

Description

FIRST EDITION. Complete set of 20 plates depicting a romanticized view of 18th-century German-Jewish life and custom. Foreword by Leopold Stein.

summary

Moritz Daniel Oppenheim (b. Hanau 1801-d. Frankfurt a/Main 1882), himself raised in an Orthodox home, conveys through his paintings much of the warmth and spirituality of traditional Jewish life. See JE, Vol. IX, p. 413

Lightly foxed in places, previous owner’s ink-stamp sporadically placed. Original elaborate gilt- and color-pictorial cloth by Knauer, all edges gilt, rebacked, rubbed. Folio

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