Artist

Moritz Daniel Oppenheim

1800–1882 · born in Hanau · died in Frankfurt

Moritz Daniel Oppenheim was born in Hanau, Germany, to a Jewish family and trained in Munich, Paris and Rome. He lived mostly in Frankfurt, where he became a favorite painter of the Rothschild family. He is best known for warm pictures of traditional Jewish family life. He died in Frankfurt in 1882.