Metadata: Art collection
Collection
- Country:
- Austria
- Holding institution:
- Jewish Museum of Hohenems
- Holding institution (official language):
- Jüdisches Museum Hohenems
- Postal address:
- Schweizerstrasse 5; 6845 Hohenems
- Phone number:
- +43 5576 739890
- Web address:
- http://www.jm-hohenems.at/
- Email:
- office@jm-hohenems.at
- Reference number:
- G
- Title:
- Art collection
- Title (official language):
- Kunstarchiv
- Date(s):
- 1475/2006
- Extent:
- 194 paintings, drawings etc.
- Type of material:
- Photographic images
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection comprises a large number of paintings, drawings, photographs and similar works, including originals as well as copies. It contains, for example, several portraits of members of Jewish families in Hohenems, which are dated between the late 18th and the late 19th century. Portrayed are men and women of the Levi, Landauer, Rosenthal, Guggenheim, Bollag, Burgauer, Löwengard, Bernheimer, Moos, Elkan and Reichenbach families. The collection holds watercolours of the synagogue and the cemetery as well.
Furthermore, the collection includes designs of a planned renovation of the synagogue of Hohenems from 1865, designs of a planned construction of a poorhouse, the construction plans for the Jewish school and of other planned ventures as well as lithographies and engravings of people (Rabbi Abraham Kohn), nature (especially mountains), religious objects (tallit) and ceremonies of Jews from other countries such as the Netherlands (circumcisions, burials and so on).
The collection also contains maps (e.g. a map of Tirol and Vorarlberg from 1871), photographies, prints (St. Gallen in the 19th century), woodcuts (mainly antisemitic imagery such as host desecrations, ritual murders and the like), silhouettes, etchings (portraits and stylised motifs), graphics and posters. Finally, it includes copies of, for example, a portrait of Markus Sitticus and of members of the Jewish community such as Aron Tänzer and Hirsch Levi Hohenemser.
- Archival history:
- The collection was created in 1991 and is still being added to.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The art collection of the Jewish museum in Hohenems was created to document the variety of paintings, drawings, photographs and so on that were donated to the museum by individuals or institutions.
- Access points: locations:
- Augsburg
- Frankfurt am Main
- Hohenems
- Innsbruck
- Lviv
- Nuremberg
- St. Gallen
- Steinach
- Vienna
- Access points: persons/families:
- Bernheimer
- Bollag
- Burgauer
- Daniel
- Elkan
- Guggenheim
- Hohenemser
- Hohenemser, Hirsch Levi
- Kohn
- Kohn, Abraham
- Landauer
- Levi
- Löwengard
- Moos
- Oppenheim
- Rosenthal
- Sitticus, Marcus
- Steiner
- Sulzer
- Tänzer
- System of arrangement:
- The collection comprises 194 items that are marked with a G (Gemälde; painting) and a number.
- Access, restrictions:
- No restrictions on access.
- Finding aids:
- The only way to access the documents in the archive is to contact or visit the Jewish Museum in Hohenems. There you can ask staff for help or consult the electronic catalogue locally.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Hohenems
- Author of the description:
- Severin Holzknecht, Jewish Museum of Hohenems, 2017
