Portrait of Max Broedel, Professor of Art as Applied to Medicine, Johns Hopkins University

1916–1922

Medium

Platinum print

Dimensions

20.8 × 15.8 cm

Status

In Museum Collection

Collect24 Art ID

C24-414891

Doris Ulmann and Dr. Charles Jaeger (1875-1942) were married early in the second decade of this century. As he was a surgeon on the faculty of Columbia University Medical School, their circle of friends no doubt included many people in the medical profession (see also: [87.XM.89.93](https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/62377/doris-ulmann-doctor-in-lab-coat-holding-scapel-to-patient's-head-american-1916-1922/)). These associations and Ulmann's increasing interest in portraiture probably led her to compile her first publication, a portfolio of twenty-four portraits entitled *The Faculty of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University* (1919). This was followed by a second collection of photogravures, *A Book of Portraits of the Medical Faculty of The Johns Hopkins University* (1922). The latter, appearing under Ulmann's maiden name, includes an image of the art professor Max Broedel (1870-1941) in a white smock posed next to one of his drawings depicting a surgeon in the midst of an operation. The artist holds drawing pencils as if at work, but directs his serious gaze at the photographer instead of his medical subject. In contrast, the Getty print shows Broed…