The portrait is of a stern looking gentleman, possibly in his sixties with thick white hair. He has deep set dark eyes and is staring out at the viewer.
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Title: Portrait of a Man
Creator: Feist, Herbert
Creator Lifespan: 1903/1981
Date Created: 26/12/1940
Subject: Men in art
Repository: Leo Baeck Institute at the Center for Jewish History
Physical Dimensions: w34 x h43.2 cm
Artist Biography: Herbert Feist was born in Mannheim, Germany. He married Edith Gruenthal in 1934 and immigrated to the United States in 1936. He became a patent attorney and, in the 1960s, opened an art gallery on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. He expressed his life long love of music in his many sketches of musicians and was also an amateur musician. He died in New York in 1981.
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