Nine drawings, from the original works of Moritz Oppenheim. First edition published in Frankfurt A.M., by Henrich Keller. 1866-1868.
Moritz Oppenheim was born in 1820 in the Ghetto outside Frankfurt, and died in Frankfurt in 1882.
He is considered to be first Jewish artist to depict traditional Jewish life. The drawings that we have here are the only ones printed during his lifetime and were produced under his supervision (this catalogue features another album of Moritz Oppenheim, published posthumously). The printer, Heinrich Keller of Frankfurt, asked Oppenheim to create these pictures especially for him, using gray colors so that they could reproduced with the technology existing at the time. Altogether 12 reproductions were printed in Frankfurt. Six were published in 1866, along with two large leaves with a preface by Leopold Stein. English and German versions of these leaves were printed.
Here are ten drawings from the two series of twelve pictures. Along with the two leaves, with English text, printed in Frankfurt in 1886.
The pictures measure 18.5:22 cm. Pasted to cardboard measuring 33:48 cm. Two pictures on slightly smaller cardboard. Very fine condition. Light tear in one cardboard. Then ten pictures are housed within a red cloth portfolio, reconditioned, integrated with the original binding. 34:48.5 cm. Very fine condition. Very rare.