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Leo Mielziner (8 December 1869 – 11 August 1935) was a noted portrait artist.
Leo was the son of Dr.
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*Henderson, Mary C., ''Mielziner: Master of Modern Stage Design'', 2001
Leo Mielziner (8 December 1869 – 11 August 1935) was a noted portrait artist.
Leo was the son of Dr. Moses Mielziner Moses Mielziner (August 12, 1828 in Schubin, Grand Duchy of Posen, Prussia - February 18, 1903 in Cincinnati) was an American Reform rabbi and author.
Life
Mielziner received his first instruction in Talmudic literature from his father, Benjamin, w ...
(1828-1903), Rabbi
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, and Rosette Mielziner Levald of Copenhagen
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who had married in 1861. His father taught at Hebrew Union College
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and was a noted Talmud
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ic scholar, publishing among other works, ''An Introduction to the Talmud''.
Leo and his twin sister Bella Mielziner were born in New York City
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at 22 Jefferson Street, but then moved as children with their family to settle in Cincinnati
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, Ohio
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. They were two of ten children, one of whom died in infancy. When Moses Mielzinger died in 1903, Leo was an artist in Paris and beside his brother Jacob — who was a rabbi in Helena, Montana — one of the seven children who survived Moses.
Leo Mielziner would marry Ella Friend McKenna and become the father of the noted actor and MGM Story Director, Kenneth MacKenna
Kenneth MacKenna (born Leo Mielziner Jr.; August 19, 1899 – January 15, 1962) was an American actor and film director.
Family
MacKenna was born as Leo Mielziner Jr. in Canterbury, New Hampshire, to portrait artist Leo Mielziner (Decembe ...
(1899–1962) and of the five-time Tony Award winning stage designer, Jo Mielziner
Joseph "Jo" Mielziner (March 19, 1901 – March 15, 1976) was an American theatrical scenic, and lighting designer born in Paris, France. He was described as "the most successful set designer of the Golden era of Broadway", and worked on both sta ...
(1901-1976).
Sources
*« Mielziner, Leo », In : William H. Ingram, ''Who’s who in Paris Anglo-American colony : a biographical dictionary of the leading members of the Anglo-American colony of Paris'', The American Register, Paris, 1905, p. 63online
*Henderson, Mary C., ''Mielziner: Master of Modern Stage Design'', 2001
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