Manheimer Family Portrait
Unusual Objects From Our Permanent Exhibition Tell Stories of Jewish Life
Manheimer family portrait, by Julius Moser (1805–1879), Berlin, 1850, oil on canvas; Jewish Museum Berlin, accession GEM 96/5/0, gift of Hermann and Mary Blaschko, photo: Jens Ziehe
Family, education, and carefree sociability: The siblings Hulda, Martin, and the younger Clara are dancing through the parlor; Babette accompanies them musically. Anna, the baby in the family, is standing on the sofa and watching them with delight. Therese, the mother, is taking care that she doesn’t fall. The oldest son, Carl, is sitting at the table and eternalizing the scene with his pencil.
The father, Moritz, is standing in the background and to his right is the painter himself, Julius Moser. The family is extended by a picture within a picture: a portrait of the grandmother, which can also be seen in the exhibition. The group portrait shows the Manheimer family as a typical bourgeois family in the Biedermeier period. There is nothing indicating that they were Jewish.
Further information about this painting can be found in our online collections (in German).
Core Exhibition: 13 Objects – 13 Stories (13)
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13 Objects – 13 Stories
A Torah shield, a sculpture, a cushion: 13 unusual objects of our core exhibition tell 13 stories of Jewish life. What would a museum be without its many objects, some small, some big, each rich in meaning? You can get a sneak peek of the objects here on our website.
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Shevirat ha-Kelim (Breaking of the Vessels) by Anselm Kiefer
This installation can be found in our core exhibition in the Libeskind Building, on level 2
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L’amitié au coeur (Friendship of the Heart)
by Étienne-Maurice Falconet (1716–1791), Paris, 1765, marble
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Finds from the Memmelsdorf Genizah
Memmelsdorf (find site), ca. 1725–1830, paper, ink, fabric, leather, porcelain
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Torah Shield
donated by Isaak Jakob Gans (1723–1798), Hamburg, 1760–1765, silver
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Manheimer Family Portrait
by Julius Moser (1805–1879), Berlin, 1850, oil on canvas
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Puppet Show
King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, Käte Baer-Freyer (1885–1988), Berlin, ca. 1924, plywood, metals
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Decorated Cushion
“ISRAELI, JEW, and now SEVERELY DISABLED ...,” Daniel Josefsohn (1961–2016), Berlin, 2014/15, textile
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Silver Formerly Owned by Jews
Provenance: up to 1939 unknown Jewish owners, 1939 Hamburg Tax Authority
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Going-away Present
Bruno Heidenheim, Album to bid farewell to Margot (1913–2010) and Ernst (1898–1971) Rosenthal, Chemnitz, 1936
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Hand Washbasin
Manufacturer: S. & D. Loewenthal, Frankfurt am Main, 1895/96, silver
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No Longer in the Country
Unclaimed membership cards for the Jewish community Frankfurt am Main, 1949
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Composition
by Otto Freundlich (1878–1943), 1938, tempera on cardboard
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Yellow Star
of the Lehmann family, Berlin, 1941–1945
