Susanne and Ilse Gottschalk
Oil Painting
1933 (completed)
1933 (completed)
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Oppenheimer was well-known in Germany and the UK as a painter of portraits and landscapes when the Gottschalks commissioned him to paint their two daughters. He had studied art in his home town of Würzburg and in Munich, and travelled widely in the early years of the 20th century. He had studios in New York and London, and was a member of the Chelsea Arts Club. His work is in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery, London; Balliol College, Oxford; the Museum of the City of New York; and the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick. This painting is unusual amongst his work because it shows children: most of his portraits in oils were of adult sitters. This portrait belongs to the pre-war period, from which much of his work was scattered and possibly lost because under Hitler's government he had to leave Germany.
Object details
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| Title | Susanne and Ilse Gottschalk (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Oil on canvas |
| Brief description | Portrait in oil colour of Susanne and Ilse Gottschalk aged three and five, painted by Joseph Oppenheimer in Germany, dated 1933 |
| Physical description | Double portrait, in oil colour on canvas, of Susanne and Ilse Gottschalk: the sisters are seated, each with a favourite toy. Susanne is on the viewer's left, wearing a black flower-print dress, white ankle socks and black strap shoes, and holds her white teddy bear; she has blue eyes, and her bobbed light brown hair is parted and tied with a pink ribbon. Ilse is on the viewer's right, wearing a pale yellow dress and white ankle socks (her shoes are not visible) with her white poodle toy beside her; she has blue eyes, and her bobbed light brown hair is parted on the left and tied on the right with a pale yellow ribbon. |
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| Credit line | Given by Mrs Susanne Dell |
| Object history | Commissioned by the sitters' parents to hang in their house in Germany |
| Subjects depicted | |
| Summary | Oppenheimer was well-known in Germany and the UK as a painter of portraits and landscapes when the Gottschalks commissioned him to paint their two daughters. He had studied art in his home town of Würzburg and in Munich, and travelled widely in the early years of the 20th century. He had studios in New York and London, and was a member of the Chelsea Arts Club. His work is in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery, London; Balliol College, Oxford; the Museum of the City of New York; and the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick. This painting is unusual amongst his work because it shows children: most of his portraits in oils were of adult sitters. This portrait belongs to the pre-war period, from which much of his work was scattered and possibly lost because under Hitler's government he had to leave Germany. |
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| Collection | |
| Accession number | B.49-2004 |
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| Record created | August 25, 2005 |
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