Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Pencil portrait drawing of Victor Gruder, part of a collection relating to the Victor Gruder and Jeanette Schestopal Gruder family.
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Catherine Drake
- Signature
- front, lower right, pencil, handwritten : L.B.
Physical Details
- Classification
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Art
- Category
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Drawings
- Object Type
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Portrait drawing (lcsh)
- Genre/Form
- Art.
- Physical Description
- Pencil portrait drawing on paper depicting a man in left-facing profile from the shoulders up. His dark hair is combed back a high forehead. He claps a cigarette holder between his thin lips as smoke tendrils rise from the lit tip of the cigarette he is smoking. He wears a collared jacket with a tie. The artist's initials are in the man's shoulder, on the lower right of the image.
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 10.630 inches (27 cm) | Width: 7.874 inches (20 cm)
- Materials
- overall : pencil, paper
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- There are no known restrictions on access to this material. Museum staff are currently unable to copy, digitize, and/or photograph collection materials on behalf of researchers. Researchers are encouraged to plan a research visit to consult collection materials themselves.
- Conditions on Use
- The Museum has made reasonable efforts but is not able to determine the copyright status of some or all of the material(s) in this collection, or identify and/or locate the potential copyright owner(s). The Museum therefore places no restrictions on use of this material, but it cannot provide any information to the user about the status of the copyright(s). The user is solely responsible for making a determination as to if and how the material may be used.
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The portrait was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2024 by Catherine Drake, the stepgranddaughter of Victor Gruder.
- Record last modified:
- 2025-07-21 08:56:05
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- http://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn768688
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Pencil portrait drawing of Isaac Ignaz Gruder mounted on board
Object
Pencil portrait drawing of of Isaac Ignaz Gruder, Victor Gruder's father, dated 1939. The portrait is part of a collection relating to the Victor Gruder and Jeanette Schestopal Gruder family.



