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Portraits

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms
Scope Note: Images that are intended to portray one or more persons, fictitious characters, or mythological beings.

Found in 172 Collections and/or Records:

Lowenstein Family Papers and Art

 Collection
Identifier: B333
Abstract Ernst Heinrich Loewenstein [Henry Lowenstein] was born in Berlin, Germany in 1925 to a Jewish father and a non-Jewish mother. To escape Nazi brutality, he was sent on the Kindertransport to England in 1939. His parents, Dr. Max and Maria Loewenstein, and his half-sister, Karin Steinberg, remained in Berlin during World War II. Shortly after the war the family emigrated to the United States to avoid persecution. Materials in this collection include legal documents and correspondence,...
Dates: 1848-2014; Majority of material found within 1939-1948

Luisa -Lizzano in Belvedere, Italy, 1945 January

 Item
Identifier: M456.02.0004.0062
Abstract

A pencil portrait of a young woman with her hair in two braids wearing a button-up collared shirt, titled “Luisa” by the artist.

Dates: 1945 January

Marianne Pisko Hausmann Pen and Ink Drawing

 Collection
Identifier: B198
Abstract Marianne Pisko Hausmann (1880-1969) was born in Vienna, Austria and studied at the Academy of the Austrian Museum of Art and Industry in Vienna. She moved to Denver in 1939 to join her daughter Margaret Grieg, an ophthamologist who had settled in Denver in 1938. Marianne was the niece of Denver Jewish pioneer Edward Pisko, who was elected a Colorado Territorial Representative in 1875. Her aunt by marriage, Seraphine Pisko, served as the executive director of National Jewish Hospital from...
Dates: circa 1910-1918

Maurice Blik, 2005

 Item — Object B398.01.00017: Series B398.01 [Barcode: U186023282516]
Identifier: B398.01.00017
Abstract

Framed drawing of Maurice Blik by artist Deborah Howard. Drawing is in black and white, he wears a white t-shirt. Maurice Blik is looking towards the viewer.

Dates: 2005

Miriam Brysk, 2006

 Item — Object B398.01.00015: Series B398.01 [Barcode: U186023282493]
Identifier: B398.01.00015
Abstract

Framed drawing of Miriam Brysk by artist Deborah Howard. Drawing is in black and white, she wears a collared striped shirt and glasses. Miriam Brysk is looking towards the viewer.

Dates: 2006

Miss Anna Niswich, Head Nurse, 1941 April

 Item
Identifier: B002.04.0215.0130.00003
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series contains a photo album, photographs, bulletin pages, drawings, lithographs, and contact sheets of the campus and buildings, patients and family, staff and volunteers, auxiliaries and conventions, and activities connected with the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society and the AMC Cancer Research Center.

Dates: 1941 April

Mr. Sorken, undated

 Item
Identifier: B002.04.0215.0132.00006
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series contains a photo album, photographs, bulletin pages, drawings, lithographs, and contact sheets of the campus and buildings, patients and family, staff and volunteers, auxiliaries and conventions, and activities connected with the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society and the AMC Cancer Research Center.

Dates: undated

Natalie Gonenn, 2005

 Item — Object B398.01.00007: Series B398.01 [Barcode: U186023282354]
Identifier: B398.01.00007
Abstract

Framed drawing of Natalie Gonenn by artist Deborah Howard. Drawing is black and white with red, orange, yellow and peach highlights in her hair and skin. Natalie Gonenn is looking towards the viewer.

Dates: 2005

O. M. Shere, undated

 Item
Identifier: B002.04.0215.0138.00001
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series contains a photo album, photographs, bulletin pages, drawings, lithographs, and contact sheets of the campus and buildings, patients and family, staff and volunteers, auxiliaries and conventions, and activities connected with the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society and the AMC Cancer Research Center.

Dates: undated

Original Sketch for Hannes Schneider , 1989

 Item
Identifier: M456.02.0005.0010
Abstract

A watercolor portrait of Hannes Schneider in front of a snowy mountainous landscape created to illustrate the article featuring him published in 1989 in Ski Magazine.

Dates: 1989