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FROM LEIPZIG TO LONDON: THE LIFE AND WORK OF THE ÉMIGRÉ ARTIST HELLMUTH WEISSENBORN.
Nyburg, Anna
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German-born artist Hellmuth Weissenborn (1898-1982) spent the first half of his life in his native Leipzig and the second in London. He was forced to flee his homeland in early 1939 in the face of Nazi terror and found refuge in Britain. Unlike many of his fellow refugees, he never lost his sense of German heritage. In this biography, the cultural baggage that he brought with him is explored: life in Weimar Germany, especially in the book arts, is the cultural context of his early life.
After his conscription into service in World War I he returned home with diaries and sketchbooks and enrolled at the world-famous Leipzig Academy of Graphic and Book Arts, studying art, typography, and printmaking. Artistic success came early, and soon he moved up into the staff, becoming one of the Academy's youngest professors. When the Nazis took power, he lost his post for marrying a Jewish woman and was forced to leave Germany.
In Britain, the 40-year-old Weissenborn struggled to find work, and was interned for six months on the Isle of Man in 1940. This resulted in an intensively productive artistic output but also led to the end of his first marriage. On release he embarked on a new phase in his career as printmaker, teacher, and publisher. His second marriage proved to be a creative partnership: he and his wife ran the Acorn Press together.
New unpublished material in the form of Weissenborn's World War I diary, letters from his first wife, and interviews with his former students and colleagues help to give an impression of the man and his life in this first full biography of the artist. Family photographs that survived his exile underpin the narrative of his life, while his versatile artistic output is reflected in the many illustrations.
Anna Nyburg is a lecturer in German at Imperial College London. She completed an MA in 1974 at the University of East Anglia in European Literature, and in 2009 she was awarded a PhD in Exile Studies at the University of London, the subject of which was the German-speaking refugees from Nazism to Britain who either created art publishing companies, or who made contributions as book artists, typographers, or designers.
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THE STANDARD GUIDE. ST. AUGUSTINE.
by Reynolds, Charles B.
This guide to St. Augustine, Florida was intended to "give such practical information and intelligent descriptions as it is hoped may add to the convenience and pleasure of the tourist in St. Augustine." It contains 58 beautiful illustrations of places around St. Augustine, including four fold-out illustrations of the Hotels Ponce de Leon, Alcazar, and Cordova, and the Memorial Presbyterian Church. The book also contains a map of Florida revised from 1890, a map and ready reference to St. Augustine, and plans of the Hotel Ponce-de-Leon and Fort Marion. Twenty-five pages of advertisements for Florida businesses precede and follow the main text. The whole is bound in the original paper wrappers. Upper wrapper loose, some paper loss at head and tail of spine, wrappers tanned and soiled in places, spine sunned, edges worn with three small open tears on upper wrapper at lower corner, tail, and fore-edge and one closed tear at fore-edge.
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