Portrait of Richard Mueller; Employee of Mendelssohn Bank, Berlin Portraits Men

"2.12.1895 Richard Mueller geb. 1.3.1853 pens. 31.12.1927"

Portrait of Franz Koch; Employee of Mendelssohn Bank, Berlin Portraits Men

"15.8.1896 Franz Koch geb. 14.9.1860 gest. 21.10.1927"

Portrait of Max Fonrobert; Employee of Mendelssohn Bank, Berlin Portraits Men

"1.6.1897 Max Fonrobert geb. 5.12.1866"

Portrait of Otto Pfeiffer; Employee of Mendelssohn Bank, Berlin Portraits Men

"1.12.1897 Otto Pfeiffer geb. 23.10.1873"

Portrait of Albert Einstein in the Southern California desert Portraits; Men

Verso: "Er sinnt in der Wueste"

Photograph of oil painting portrait of Samuel Loewen; Berlin Portraits Men

circa 1747 in Potsdam - 30 November 1827 in Berlin; father of Rosa Valentin

The story of my family : The German-Jewish family of Hermann Nelki /

History of the Nelki and Russo families in Berlin; concentrates mainly on first half of the 20th century; most members of the family were physicians; persecution in Nazi period; emigration to England; attached is the story of Eva Edith Ehrlich who survived the war years in Berlin in hiding.

German-Jewish Club of 1933, Los Angeles : Ein vergessenes Kapitel der Emigration /

Radio speech on the writers, actors, artists, and others who emigrated from Nazi Germany to the Los Angeles area.

Portrait of a Woman.

A lady about 30 to 40 years old, dressed in a white dress is shown holding two roses up to her left shoulder in her right hand.

Portrait of a Man

A bust view of a man about 30 - 40 years, wearing a black coat and three-cornered hat, a wig, lace shirt front and cuffs. He is shown against a light blue sky with a suggestion of mountains on his right and cypress trees on the left. He is shaven and his attire modern, but his tricorn hat - no no longer fashionable among Christians in the late 18th century- is the mark of an observant Jew.

Portrait of an Old Lady

This waist-length frontal representation shows an old lady with crossed arms wearing a lace bonnet and a white cape over a red dress against a plain greenish background. Her hands seem to be unfinished. The white gouache is applied so as to give the painting textural interest.

Portrait of an old Man

Bust of Rabbi with luxuriant white beard wearing a plain black coat and tall black cap. The background is dark-gray. The hair and beard are exquisite, obtained with very fine brushes and textured use of white paint. The psychological study of the face is also unusually high quality.

Portrait of Samuel Mayer Ehrenberg ( 1773 - 1853 ).

This painting is in dedication " in honor of Meyer Ehrenberg by his students" as stated on a scroll held by the sitter. The scroll is dated October 7, 1820 and is followed by a list of names in two columns: (M.Ehrenberg, P.Ehrenberg, B. Ehrenberg, M.Imanuel M.Balke, B.Meier, L.Franck, M. Cohen, W.Fraenkel, M. Chohns, P.Goldschmidt, J.Lippoa, A. Nathan, M.Kramer, J.Fraenkel, M.Goldschmidt.) Ehrenberg was the founder of the first modern Jewish Day School in Germany, at Wolfenbuettel. Ehrenberg was the great-grandfather of the Jewish Theologian Franz Rosenzweig.

Portrait of Mathilde Wiener Monasch (?) d.1864.

Mrs. Monasch is shown as a young woman wearing a gray translucent shawl and a lace bonnet with ornate flaps coming down over the ears. Some of her black hair is showing. She is shown in a 3/4 view; the eyes are lustrous, the corners of the mouth are raised in a half smile. On backing of original frame: "Zum Andencken von Ihren Schwiegersohn, J. Wollstein d. 20th February 1839" (In memory of your son-in-law J. Wollstein Feb 20th, 1839).

Abraham Ettlinger, Portrait. ( 1726-1811 )

This portrait is chronologically first in a series of members of the Ettlinger-Bielefeld family, Acc. 78.50 and 78.53