Portrait Salomon Sulzer

Condition:
The painting was cut up/torn, possibly with destructive intention. In its center, a hook-shaped rip is branching out over chin, neck, and upper body of the depicted person. Alongside are several tears, some of them elongated, and holes as if punctured. Multiple detached canvas threads appear along the tears. In the areas around the tears and deformations there are extensive losses extending to the canvas as well as delaminations of the ground- and surface layers. The canvas is deformed and not properly stretched. The varnish layer is severely yellowed. Widespread surface accretions.

Measures:
Transportation safety, stabilization of paint layer, surface cleaning, weaving in of loose canvas threads, individual, microscopically precise, gluing of torn thread ends, removal of deformations in canvas support, tension adjustment, filling and surface structuring of losses, reduction of varnish layer, gouache inpainting (retouching), application of varnish layer, resin-oil retouching, reverse side protection, written and photographic documentation.

Required working hours:
140

Costs:
€ 6,750.-

In 1826, Salomon Sulzer (1804 Hohenems - 1891 Vienna) obtained an appointment to the new temple on Seitenstettengasse in Vienna, where he held the office of chief cantor for fifty-six years. He studied composition with Ignaz von Seyfried and later held the chair for Vocal Music at the Vienna Conservatory. Concurrently with Mannheimer's moderate reformation of the ritual, Sulzer shaped synagogue music in new ways more suitable to the times and circumstances without compromising its specific Jewish character. With Shir Zion he published in 1838 for the first time his liturgical chants, a work that made him renowned well beyond Austria's borders. Salomon Sulzer was married to Fanni Hirschfeld of Hohenems. The couple had sixteen children.