Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy spielt vor Goethe (1830 in dessen Haus in Weimar)

Oppenheim, Moritz Daniel (1800-1882)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1864
Height:
85.0 cm  (33 7/16 in.)
Width:
62.0 cm  (24 7/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas

    Item location

  • Jüdisches Museum (Frankfurt am Main)
    Loan of Alexander Tesler

Description

The canvas depicts Felix Mendelssohn playing the grand piano, and Johann Wolfgang Goethe listening to the music. Music sheets and scores are lying on the lid of the piano. The canvas was painted long after Goethe's and Mendelssohn's death.

People as subjects

Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix (1809-1847) (Composer portrait)
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832) (Non-musician/dancer)

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Grand pianoforte [2284]

Musical works

Image URLs

image link 1
Picture embedded in a article on Moritz Daniel Oppenheim in Jewish Heritage Online Magazine (http://jhom.com/arts/oppenheim/genre_painting.htm, last access: 10. Oct. 2013).

Bibliographic references

Heuberger, Georg, Merk, Arnold, Moritz Daniel Oppenheim - Die Entdeckung des jüdischen Selbstbewußtseins in der Kunst. (Köln: Wienand Verlag 1999).

Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Karl. Goethe und Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. Reprint ed. Manja Lippert (Düsseldorf: Staccato-Verlag, 2008).

Todd, R. Larry. Mendelssohn: A life in music (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003).

Wasserman, Janet J. "Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy & Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel: Portrait iconographies", Music in art, 33/1-2 (2008) 317-371. RILM 2008-07435.

Conway, David. Jewry in music: Entry to the profession from the enlightenment to Richard Wagner (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012) 30.

RIdIM record id

1583