Leopold Horowitz (1838 - 1917)

Leopold Horowitz

Leopold Stefan Horowitz was a Polish painter of the second half of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries of Jewish origin. He is known as a portrait painter and genre painter.

Horowitz early in his career, in 1860, settled in Paris, where he became a well-known painter of genre paintings and portraits, especially of children. In his work he imitated the style of Rembrandt and later Van Dyck. In 1868, the artist moved to Warsaw, traveling frequently to Budapest, Vienna and Berlin to paint commissioned portraits of ladies from aristocratic circles. In Warsaw he produced paintings depicting life in the Jewish diaspora. In 1891 Horowitz settled in Berlin, where his brilliant technique and elegant style in the spirit of the old masters made him a popular portraitist among the local aristocracy.