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Julius Rosenbaum
Julius Rosenbaum
(b. 1879 Neuenbürg, Germany – immigrated to Great Britain 1939 – d. 1956 The Hague, Netherlands)
Boy with a Basket, 1904 Drypoint etching on paper 16.5 x 11.5 cm Signed (lower right) ‘Julius Rosenbaum’ Ben Uri Collection Presented by the Artist
Born in West Prussia, Rosenbaum studied in Paris at the Académie Julien. In 1905 he went to Italy, then Breslau, eventually moving to Berlin where he studied under Lovis Corinth. After immigration, Rosenbaum repaired Blitz-damaged houses, and worked as a china restorer, before he established an art school with his wife Adèle Reifenberg (their students exhibiting as “The Belsize Group”). He died in Holland, on a visit to see a Rembrandt exhibition, and was buried in England.
Julius Rosenbaum
(b. 1879 Neuenbürg, Germany – immigrated to Great Britain 1939 – d. 1956 The Hague, Netherlands)
Portrait of Charlotte, 1945 80 x 52 cm Signed (lower left) ‘Julius Rosenbaum’ Ben Uri Collection Presented by Dr. Alec Lerner and Lord Marks 1950
The sitter, Charlotte Melnikov (née Nissen), wife of Russian-born sculptor Avram Melnikov, was also a painter and exhibited with Ben Uri in 1948.
