Kiper Winemaker Opatowski, Sampling old wine Print of a Jewish wine merchant inspecting wine

The Katz Ehrenthal Collection is a collection of more than 900 objects depicting Jews and antisemitic and anti-Jewish propaganda from the medieval to the modern era, in Europe, Russia, and the United States. The collection was amassed by Peter Ehrenthal, a Romanian Holocaust survivor, to document the pervasive history of anti-Jewish hatred in Western art, politics and popular culture. It includes crude folk art as well as pieces created by Europe's finest craftsmen, prints and periodical illustrations, posters, paintings, decorative art, and toys and everyday household items decorated with depictions of stereotypical Jewish figures. 

The print was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2016 by the Katz Family. 

Kiper Winemaker Opatowski, Sampling old wine Print of a Jewish wine merchant inspecting wine 

overall: Height: 18.000 inches (45.72 cm) | Width: 13.250 inches (33.655 cm) 

Zincograph print of a Jewish winemaker by Jan Felix Piwarski (Piwarskiego) (1794-1859). He wears a spodik, a tall, fur hat worn by Hasidic Jews in 19th century Poland, and stands amid wine barrels examining a glass of wine. This image was one of the Warsaw types included in Piwarski's unfinished series, Kram malowniczy warszawski, of finely detailed portraits of peddlers and merchants conducting their business in times gone by. The prints, or zincographs, were made from engraved zinc plates, a technical innovation made by Piwarski, who studied drawing and languages before moving to Warsaw in 1816. In 1818, he became curator of the Print Room at Warsaw University Library until 1834 when the University was closed by Czar Nicholas I of Russia in the wake of the suppressed Polish November Uprising. Piworski then had a successful career as a teacher and artist. He invented new lithographic techniques, most notably zincography, which gave his work a delicate, painterly quality. He was know for his carefully observed landscapes, and for his numerous series depicting people, of today and yesteryear, involved in their daily activities. The print is one of more than 900 items in the Katz Ehrenthal Collection of antisemitic artifacts and visual materials. 

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Zincograph portrait of a mature Jewish man in a spodik, a tall, black fur hat and black jacket, standing against an open wine barrel. He is examining a partially filled glass wine goblet which he holds up in his right hand, His left hand rests on the barrel and holds a a syringe like extractor tube. Behind him are stacked wine barrels and to the left are ascending stone stairs.