On view now in Scenes from the Collection, this painting by Moritz Daniel Oppenheim is one of the ea
On view now in Scenes from the Collection, this painting by Moritz Daniel Oppenheim is one of the earliest self-portraits by a Jewish artist. Born to Orthodox parents in the ghetto of Hanau, Germany on this day in 1800, Oppenheim later went on to study academic painting Munich Academy of Arts—an opportunity previously unavailable to Jews, and a vivid testimony to the emergence of Jewish artists during the 19th century. -- source link
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