Portrait of Leo Kopf.

Leo Kopf is portrayed as an older man, sitting down and leaning toward one elbow as he looks to the left. He wears a white shirt, brown pants, and belt. A book sits in his lap, one hand turning a page. In the background is a plant on a windowsill and red curtains. The work is signed in the lower left corner.Ms. Ruth Kopf, New YorkLeo Kopf was a German conductor and composer. He was born in 1888 in Torgovicz and died in New York in 1953.Gertrud Sax-Bernhard (1885-1962) was a painter of still lifes, landscapes and portraits. She received her initial training with Martin Brandenburg and Leo von König in Berlin and was a member of the Association of Women Artists and the Association of Visual Artists in Germany. She emigrated to Paris after the Nazis came to power in 1933. She had numerous exhibits in Paris as well as Nice and participated in shows organized by the artists' organization Artistes Libres together with Eugene Spiro and other prominent émigré artists. In 1939 she married Georg Bernhard, the noted journalist, who was interned in the internment camp of Bassens near Bordeaux the following year. She and her husband came to New York in 1941 with the help of Varian Fry, who secured a visa for them. Further information on Sax-Bernhard's activities after her emigration to the U.S. could not be ascertained.Updated record.Digital imag