Ludwig Goldscheider

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Ludwig Goldscheider (born June 3, 1896 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; died June 26, 1973 in London ) was an English art historian and publisher of Austrian origin. His parents were the watchmaker Wilhelm Goldscheider from Galicia and his first wife Julie (Itte) born. Lifschitz.

Life

After the First World War , in which he participated as an officer, Goldscheider studied at the University of Vienna a . a. Art history . He began to work for various publishing houses and made his debut in 1921 with his poetry anthology Die Wiese .

Two years later he founded the Phaidon publishing house together with Béla Horovitz and Fritz Ungar . By 1938 the publisher was able to make a name for itself almost all over Europe with inexpensive books on art and architecture. Forced by the annexation of Austria , Goldscheider emigrated to London in 1938 together with Horovitz and Ungar. There he re-founded his publishing house as Phaidon Press during the Second World War . In 1946 he was granted British citizenship.

Fonts (selection)

  • Michelangelo. Paintings, sculpture, architecture . Phaidon Press, London 1996, ISBN 0-7148-3296-0 .
  • Rodin. Sculptures . Phaidon Press, Oxford 1988, ISBN 0-7148-9000-6 .
  • Roman portraits . Phaidon Press, London 2004, ISBN 0-7148-4436-5 .
  • Timeless art. Contemporary works from distant epochs . Phaidon Verlag, Vienna 1934, 2nd revised edition 1937
  • The most beautiful poems in world literature. A house book of world poetry, from the beginning until today . Phaidon Verlag, Vienna 1934
  • The meadow. Poems . Amalthea-Verlag, Vienna 1921.

literature

  • Friedrich Stadler (ed.): The expelled reason. Emigration and exile of Austrian science 1930–1940 . LIT publishing house, Münster
  1. 2004, ISBN 3-8258-7372-2 , p. 528
  2. 2004, ISBN 3-8258-7373-0 , pp. 523-1106
  • Ulrike Wendland: Biographical handbook of German-speaking art historians in exile. Life and work of the scientists persecuted and expelled under National Socialism. Part 1: A – K. Saur, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-598-11339-0 , pp. 208-210.
  • Goldscheider, Ludwig , in: Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 . Volume 2.1. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 392

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personal data
SURNAME Goldscheider, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English art historian and publisher of Austrian origin
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH June 26, 1973
Place of death London