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By the 1920s, Montparnasse artist Chana Orloff was a popular portrait sculptor. Showing the influences of cubism and classical and “primitive” art, her flowing, smooth-surfaced sculptures in wood or…
The influence of Rahel Levin Varnhagen (1771-1833) on German culture owed much to the salon society of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Hostess of a noted salon in Berlin, she was…
Theresa Concordia Mengs painted this self-portrait with pastels, her preferred medium, when she was about twenty years old, a few years after her family moved from Dresden to Rome.
Portrait of a Girl with a Red Belt is one of many portrait miniatures that Jeremiah David Alexander Fiorino painted. He was a court painter in Dresden who painted portraits of members of the royal…
Margaret Michaelis-Sachs stands with her back to the camera, looking out on a landscape seemingly devoid of other people. The photographs she made in Australia were different from the lively street…
Grace Mendes Seixas Nathan was born in Connecticut in 1752 to a patriotic, literary Jewish family. In 1780, she married the British merchant Simon Nathan, a supporter of the American Revolution who…
Don Francisco (Abraham Israel) Lopes Suasso (ca. 1657–1710), a prominent financier of Portuguese Jewish heritage, had ten children with his second wife, Leonora (Rachel) da Costa (1669–1749). In this…
Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas in the Piazza San Marco, Venice, Italy.Born in Pittsburgh, Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) was brought up in Oakland, California. She graduated from Radcliffe College in…
In the 1930s, Lotte Errell and her husband, also a photographer, traveled the world, visiting countries in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. The outbreak of war in 1939 found the now divorced and…
Alfred Bernheim’s intimate portrait of Hannah Arendt portrays her as casual and self-confident, lounging on a couch and smoking a cigarette. Arendt was one of the most famous intellectuals of the…
