Benjamin Prins
Dutch painter (1860-1934)
Benjamin Liepman Prins (1860–1934) was a Dutch genre artist.
Biography
Benjamin Liepman Prins was born in Arnhem, the Netherlands on 21 January 1860. He was the second of eight children to Eliezer Liepman Philip Prins' first wife, Henrietta Prins-Jacobson (1836–1885). Prins showed an early talent for art and went to study with Professor August Allebé in the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam, where his family had recently moved from Arnhem. Prins joined Allebé’s class around 1877 and studied with him for five years.
His father, Liepman Philip Prins (1835–1915), worked in the family's carpet business for many years. After reaching middle age, Liepman decided to devote the rest of his life to serious and exhaustive Torah study; as part of his investigation he corresponded with many scholars of his generation. These scholarly interests and associations would later have great impact on Benjamin's life. In 1885 Liepman Philip Prins took his family to Frankfurt, where he continued to study and write on a variety of Jewish and general subjects. During a visit to the family there, Benjamin met Rosa Benari, the niece of the famous Jewish painter and sketcher of Jewish holiday scenes, Moritz Oppenheim.
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