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Lot #    25884
Auction End Date    2/16/2010 10:40:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Miniature portrait of Nanette Heine, nee Kaula
Author    Joseph Karl Stieler
City    [Europe]
Publication Date    c. 1920
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Miniature reproduction (80:64) of original in ivory frame (135:116). Not examined outside frame.
          
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Description		    Nanette Heine, nee Kaula 1812-1876 (the subject of our portrait) was painted by Joseph Karl Stieler in 1829 and hangs in the Nymphenburg Palace in Munich. In the 18th century, Caroline Kuala and her brother Jakob became officials in the court of the Duke of Wurstenberg. Their descendants expanded commercial and banking business in Germany and established public institutions. their sense of belonging in Germany is reflected in the inscription on Caroline's tombstone, "Here lies a great woman of her people and her homeland". Following the Nazi rise to power, most of the Kaula family left Germany. The ones who remained converted to Christianity and believed that as such the race laws of Nuremberg didn't apply to them. Among them were Johanna Kaula and her daughter Margaret. The latter appealed to the Nazi legal authorities for formal recognition as Christians. Both were deported to concentration camps as Jews where they perished. In 1820 he was appointed court painter to Ludwig I, King of Bavaria (reg 1825–1848), and painted several portraits of him. Stieler, was commissioned by King Ludwig I to paint a portrait gallery of 36 of the most beautiful ladies in the land for the Schoenheitsgalerie (1827–1842). The subjects include Nanette Kaula, 17, daughter of the head of the Jewish community, who was married to a nephew of Heinrich Heine. Stieler was not only technically highly accomplished, but has also left a document of the ideal of beauty of his time.
          
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20th Century:    Checked
  
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Other:    Europe
  
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