Johann Andreas Benjamin Nothnagel

[1] Some of this artist's paintings have become identified with famous rabbis from decades before his time, for which he drew imaginary portraits.

[2] They have been printed in Jewish history books, and in the past 100 years or so have become part of the Sukkah ornaments, with the writing of Isaiah's prophecy (30:20) '...and your eyes shall see those who show you the way'.

[4] Another, of Rabbi Naphtali Katz (Cohen Zedek) is shown at the Jewish Museum in Frankfurt, Germany.

[5] Cropped and reversed on a vertical axis, this image became identified with the rabbi, who fled the town after he was arrested and falsely accused of burning down the crowded Jewish section of Frankfurt.

He had been released after proved innocent in trial, but still held to blame by the Christian public, documented in antisemitic writings, accusations later replicated by the Jewish Haskallah movement, and even modern day Researchers[6] His picture of a bearded man (probably depicting a German rabbi) is thought to be "a type more than a picture".