Max Beerbohm

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Max Beerbohm, 1901

Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm (born August 24, 1872 in London , † May 20, 1956 in Rapallo , Italy ) was an English parodist and cartoonist .

Life

He was born in London , England , the youngest of nine children of Lithuanian grain trader Julius Ewald Edward Beerbohm (1811-1892). His mother was Eliza Draper Beerbohm (around 1833–1918), the second wife and sister of his father's deceased first wife. One of his older half-brothers was the actor and producer Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree . He attended Charterhouse School and Merton College ; he started writing while still at school. Some of his works appeared in the Yellow Book (1894). As a young man he traveled through the United States as a press officer for his brother's theater company.

His first book, The Works of Max Beerbohm (dt. The works of Max Beerbohm ), appeared in 1896. In 1898 he replaced George Bernard Shaw as an acting critic for the Saturday Review (an English magazine), where he remained under contract until 1910. From 1935 he worked irregularly as a radio presenter.

His best known works are A Christmas Garland (1912), a parody of literary styles. Also known is Seven Men (1919), which contains Enoch Soames (English), the tale of a poet who makes a pact with the devil to find out how posterity will remember him. In 1911 he wrote his only novel, Zuleika Dobson . Other work is collected in The Happy Hypocrite (1897). In 1939 he was raised to the nobility as a Knight Bachelor ("Sir").

In 1910 Beerbohm married the actress Florence Kahn , an American Jew. Widowed after their death in 1951, he married there on April 20, 1956, already sick to death, the Jew and former secretary Gerhart Hauptmanns and later Rudolf G. Binding Elisabeth Jungmann , who emigrated from Upper Silesia to England , in order to secure her legally and financially. The Beerbohm couple had been on friendly terms with her for decades.

In 1943 he was elected an honorary foreign member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters .

Books from Max Beerbohm's works

Written works

  • The Works of Max Beerbohm, with a Bibliography by John Lane. 1896
  • More. 1899
  • Yet again. 1909
  • Zuleika Dobson; or, An Oxford Love Story. 1911
  • A Christmas Garland, Woven by Max Beerbohm. 1912
  • Seven Men. 1919
  • Herbert Beerbohm Tree: Some Memories of Him and of His Art. 1920, ed. by Max Beerbohm
  • And Even Now. 1920
  • A peep into the past. 1923
  • Around theaters. 1924
  • A variety of things. 1928
  • The Dreadful Dragon of Hay Hill. 1928
  • Lytton Strachey: The Rede Lecture. 1943
  • Mainly on the Air. 1946; extended edition 1957
  • The Incomparable Max: A Collection of Writings of Sir Max Beerbohm. 1962
  • Max in Verse: Rhymes and Parodies. 1963, ed. by JG Riewald
  • Letters to Reggie Turner. 1964, ed. by Rupert Hart-Davis
  • More Theaters, 1898-1903. 1969, ed. by Rupert Hart-Davis
  • Max and Will: Max Beerbohm and William Rothenstein: Their Friendship and Letters. 1975, ed. by Mary M. Lago and Karl Beckson
  • Letters of Max Beerbohm: 1892-1956. 1988, ed. by Rupert Hart-Davis
  • Last theaters. 1970, ed. by Rupert Hart-Davis
  • A Peep into the Past and Other Prose Pieces. 1972
  • Max Beerbohm and "The Mirror of the Past". 1982, ed. by Lawrence Danson
    • Max Beerbohm: Dandies & Dandies. Selected essays and stories. Edited and translated by Eike Schönfeld. Haffmans Publishing House. Zurich 1989

Cartoon collections

  • Caricatures of Twenty-Five Gentlemen. 1896
  • The Poets' Corner. 1904
  • A Book of Caricatures. 1907
  • Cartoons: The Second Childhood of John Bull. 1911
  • Fifty Caricatures. 1913
  • A survey. 1921
  • Rossetti and His Circle. 1922
  • Things New and Old. 1923
  • Observations. 1925
  • Heroes and Heroines of Bitter Sweet. 1931 (five drawings in a portfolio)
  • Max's Nineties: Drawings 1892-1899. 1958, ed. by Rupert Hart-Davies and Allan Wade
  • Beerbohm's Literary Caricatures: From Homer to Huxley. 1977, ed. by JG Riewald
  • Max Beerbohm Caricatures. 1997, ed. by N. John Hall

Secondary literature

  • SN Behrman: Portrait of Max. 1960
  • David Cecil: Max: A Biography of Max Beerbohm. 1964, reprint 1985
  • Lawrence Danson: Max Beerbohm and the Act of Writing. 1989
  • John Felstiner: The Lies of Art: Max Beerbohm's Parody and Caricature. 1973
  • AH Gallatin: Bibliography of the Works of Max Beerbohm. 1952
  • AH Gallatin: Max Beerbohm: Bibliographical Notes. 1944
  • Ira Grushow: The Imaginary Reminiscences of Max Beerbohm. 1984
  • N. John Hall: Max Beerbohm: A Kind of a Life. 2002
  • Rupert Hart-Davis: A Catalog of the Caricatures of Max Beerbohm. 1972
  • Bohun Lynch: Max Beerbohm in perspective . Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf New York, 1922
  • Bruce J. McElderderry: Max Beerbohm. 1971
  • JG Riewald: Sir Max Beerbohm, Man and Writer: A Critical Analysis with a Brief Life and Bibliography. 1953
  • JG Riewald: The Surprise of Excellence: Modern Essays of Max Beerbohm. 1974
  • Robert Viscusi: Max Beerbohm, or the Dandy Dante: Rereading with Mirrors. 1986
  • Max Beerbohm in: Twenty-four portraits . Text and drawings by William Rothenstein. Publisher: George Allen, London, 1920

Web links

Commons : Max Beerbohm  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ FLORENCE RAHN TO WED ?; Report That Actress Will Become Bride of Max Beerbohm. The New York Times . May 2, 1910.
  2. ↑ Honorary Members: Max Beerbohm. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed March 5, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Beerbohm, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beerbohm, Sir Henry Maximilian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English parodist and cartoonist
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH May 20, 1956
Place of death Rapallo , Italy