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Rabbi Joseph Trostmann was the head of the local Yeshivah in Akkerman, a small Black Sea port, in the early decades of the 20th century. His granddaughter, Ottilie Tolansky (née Pincasovitch), remembered him from when she was a child, and many years later, she painted two portraits of him based on a combination of her recollections and a family photograph. These portraits, painted in the early 1960s, probably around 1962 or 1963, were virtually identical: one was bought by the Stoke-on-Trent Art Gallery, and the other was retained in the family. At the artist’s death, her son Jonathan Tolansky inherited the second portrait, which he donated to the Ben Uri Gallery.

Ben Uri Gallery & Museum

London

Title

Rabbi Joseph Trostmann

Date

c.1962–1963

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 101.3 x W 78 cm

Accession number

2018-01

Acquisition method

presented by the artist's son Jon Tolansky, 2018

Work type

Painting

Ben Uri Gallery & Museum

108a Boundary Road, St John's Wood, London, Greater London NW8 0RH England

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Artist or maker

Ottilie Tolansky

1912–1977

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