Nikolaus Pevsner: The Life
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Born Nikolai Pewsner into a Russian-Jewish family in Leipzig, Nikolaus Pevsner lived through turbulent years in Germany as a child. Despite his early ambitions to be an artist, he embarked on a promising career as a young academic in Dresden during the crisis years of the Weimar Republic, before his move to England in 1933. Susie Harries explores the truth about his reported sympathies with elements of Nazi thought, his internment in England as an enemy alien, his mother's suicide in 1942 in a 'Jews' House' in Leipzig and then, in 1946, his return to occupied Germany in a British Uniform. On Pevsner's first visit to England in 1930, he looked in vain for the kind of architectural guide he wanted to read, and would have found in Germany. Fifteen years later, given the chance by Penguin Books, he decided to write one for himself, and so was born the career that would reach its apex with The Buildings of England a series of books that was to make Pevsner's name synonymous with indespensible guides to English architecture. As a 'General Practitioner' of architectural history, Pevsner explored an astonishing range of subjects from Gothic cathedrals and Georgian coffee-houses to
Author: Susie Harries
Format: Hardback, 880 pages, 162mm x 240mm, 1212 g
Published: 2011, Vintage Publishing, United Kingdom
Genre: Biography: The Arts
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Born Nikolai Pewsner into a Russian-Jewish family in Leipzig, Nikolaus Pevsner lived through turbulent years in Germany as a child. Despite his early ambitions to be an artist, he embarked on a promising career as a young academic in Dresden during the crisis years of the Weimar Republic, before his move to England in 1933. Susie Harries explores the truth about his reported sympathies with elements of Nazi thought, his internment in England as an enemy alien, his mother's suicide in 1942 in a 'Jews' House' in Leipzig and then, in 1946, his return to occupied Germany in a British Uniform. On Pevsner's first visit to England in 1930, he looked in vain for the kind of architectural guide he wanted to read, and would have found in Germany. Fifteen years later, given the chance by Penguin Books, he decided to write one for himself, and so was born the career that would reach its apex with The Buildings of England a series of books that was to make Pevsner's name synonymous with indespensible guides to English architecture. As a 'General Practitioner' of architectural history, Pevsner explored an astonishing range of subjects from Gothic cathedrals and Georgian coffee-houses to
Nikolaus Pevsner: The Life