A young Jewish boy listens to the wise words of his aged uncle. Wood engraving by C.E. Forberg after Ludwig Knaus.

  • Knaus, Ludwig, 1829-1910.
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A young Jewish boy listens to the wise words of his aged uncle. Wood engraving by C.E. Forberg after Ludwig Knaus. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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The uncle holds a long pipe. "Max Liebermann beschrieb das Bild 1901 als 'eins der meistbewunderten, und mit Recht bewunderten Bilder der deutschen Genremalerei […]. Knaus zeigt uns einen alten Juden, wie er sein Enkelkind in die Geheimnisse des Trödelhandwerks einweiht; köstliche Figuren, jeder kleinste Zug, jede Bewegung der Natur abgelauscht und bis in die feinsten Details wiedergegeben' (M. Liebermann, Die Phantasie in der Malerei, Frankfurt am Main 1978, S. 83)."--online catalogue of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin by Angelika Wesenberg

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1 print : wood engraving ; image 24.5 x 16.6 cm

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The wisdom of Solomon. X.A. v. O.R. ; Forberg sc. From the painting by Ludwig Knaus.

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Wellcome Collection 27661i

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The Xylographische Anstalt von Otto Roth (X.A. v. O.R.) was based in Leipzig between 1864 and 1889, and produced many wood engravings for the Leipzig magazine Die Gartenlaube. The present wood engraving is one of several which it produced on Jewish themes

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After the painting by Knaus called 'Salomonische Weisheit' (1878), in the Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

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