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25. The Coffee MAKER

Artist: Ludwig DEUTSCH, Austrian, (1855 - 1930)
Execution date (approximate): 1896
Téchnique: Oil on Canvas, (signer lower lefth)
Measures: 46 x 33 cm.
Description: A man preparing the Coffee outside a tavern in the streets of Cairo-Egypt.

Biography
Ludwig Deutsch (Vienna, 1855 - Paris, 1935) was an Austrian painter who settled in Paris.
Deutsch came from a well-established family. His father was a financier at the Austrian
court. He studied at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts 1872-1875, then, in 1878, moved to
Paris where he became strongly associated with Orientalism. He was on good terms with
another Austrian Orientalist in Paris, Rudolf Ernst.
References on Deutsch:
Les orientalistes des écoles allemande et autrichienne: Martina Haja, Günther Wimmer -
2000 “Par leur caractère inachevé, elles nous placent au cœur du processus de création
de Deutsch. Né à Vienne le 13 mai 1855, Ludwig Deutsch est issu d’une famille juive ; son
père était changeur à la Cour impériale. Après le lycée, il entra à .”
Orientalism: Delacroix to Klee Roger Benjamin, Mounira Khemir, Ursula Prunster - 1997
“Rudolph Ernst, like his friend Ludwig Deutsch, was a Viennese-born Orientalist who
settled in Paris during the 1870s.”
Hali, The international magazine of antique carpet and textile art: Volume 8 1986 “Ludwig
Deutsch is perhaps the Austrian Orientalist most sought after by collectors. One of his
works on show, ‘The Scholar’, is a fine example of the artist at his very best. Dated 1901
and painted in Paris, like the vast majority of his works, it has ...”

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