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May 15, 2024 – March 2, 2025 | Levels 1 and 2

PICTURE STORIES
Portraits of Munich Jews

A boy in a sailor suit, a lady in a beret and with huge puffed sleeves, a rabbi with an open prayer book. In its exhibition entitled “Picture Stories. Portraits of Munich Jews,” the Jewish Museum Munich shows well-known and forgotten faces and asks: Who had their portrait painted by whom? How did they want to be seen? What kind of person did they want to represent? The works from the 19th and early 20th centuries tell of the self-image of Jewish families in Munich and their contribution to urban society up until their persecution by the Nazis, and reveal the diversity of Jewish identities. Many of the portraits in Munich and the stories behind them have long since been forgotten.

A calalogue is being published by Hentrich & Hentrich to accompany the exhibition. (In German only).

An exhibition of the Jewish Museum Munich.

 

 

A lady with a beret and oversized puffed sleeves, Portrait of Margarethe Maison, Hugo von Habermann, 1895. Photo: Jewish Museum Munich / Franz Kimmel
Portrait of Margarethe Maison, Hugo von Habermann, 1895. Photo: Jewish Museum Munich / Franz Kimmel