Jakob Schlesinger [SEP] place of death
Jakob Schlesinger
Jakob Schlesinger, also "Johann Jakob Schlesinger" (born January 13, 1792, in Worms; died May 12, 1855, in Berlin) was a German painter and restorer.
Early years.
Johann Jacob Schlesinger was born the son of the painter Johann Adam Schlesinger (1759-1829) and his wife Catharina Barbara, née Becker. His father, also a renowned painter, came from Ebertsheim, the mother from Grünstadt. The couple lived for some time in Worms, the birthplace of their
construction of the synagogue started. Jakob Schlesinger, a wealthy wholesaler and the owner of the steam mill in Vinkovci, gave the largest financial contribution to the construction.
The Second Vinkovci Synagogue was built under the architect Frank Funtak in the Aleksandar street (today the Zvonimir street 18-20). The total cost of construction was 4,5 million krones. Funtak turned to classicism when choosing styles for the Vinkovci Synagogue. Although this style dominated, the building also had elements of the 19th-century synagogue architecture and of art deco