Artist

Isidor Kaufmann

Portrait of Isidor Kaufmann
Portrait of Isidor Kaufmann

Austrian, 1853–1921

Isidor Kaufmann was an Austrian Naïve art artist. 3 works are cataloged here, principally at Israel Museum. Isidor Kaufmann was born in Arad.

Isidor Kaufmann (Hungarian: Kaufman(n) Izidor, Hebrew: איזידור קאופמן; 22 March 1853 in Arad – 1921 in Vienna) was an Austro-Hungarian painter of Jewish themes. Having devoted his career to genre painting, he traveled throughout Eastern Europe in search of scenes of Jewish, often Hasidic life. The artist's life and work was featured by the Jewish Museum Vienna 1995 in a show curated by Tobias G. Natter.

Works by Isidor Kaufmann

Collections represented

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