Professor Hermann Cohen with the young Pasternak in Marburg, signed lithograph by Leonid Pasternak. [Marburg, 1912].

Handwritten dedication in Russian in margin of plate to pianist and composer David Solomonovich Schor (Давид Соломонович Шор; 1867-1942), dated – Berlin, 19.1.27.

Alongside Hermann Cohen, the illustration depicts (on the left) writer Boris Pasternak (son of the artist Leonid Pasternak), who studied under Cohen in the summer of 1912 at the University of Marburg.

38.5 cm. Mounted on cardboard. Good-fair condition. Stains, abrasions and blemishes to margins. Small open tear to edges of cardboard mount.

Leonid Pasternak (Леонид Осипович Пастернак; 1862-1945), a Russian-Jewish Impressionist painter, father of Boris Pasternak. Born to an Orthodox Jewish family in Odessa, he studied law and medicine before turning to art and training at the Academy of Arts in Munich. He was a friend of Leo Tolstoy, illustrated several of his books, and painted a number of his portraits; in 1905, the was elected to the Imperial Academy of Arts and taught at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. In 1921, he traveled to Berlin for eye surgery and never returned to live in Russia. He passed away in Oxford, England.