At 608 pages, this fully bilingual volume (English and German) reproduces for the first time the two extraordinary guestbooks kept by the Hess family from 1907 to 1965. The books document the family's journey from their prosperous Erfurt household of Jewish heritage through the cultural ferment of the Weimar Republic to forced exile in Britain following the rise of fascism.
The Hess family home became a meeting point and exhibition space for the artistic avant-garde of the 1920s. Some of the most significant figures of modern art left their unique imprint in the guestbooks, including Kandinsky, Feininger, Klee, Pechstein, Nolde, Rohlfs and Molzahn, alongside Kurt Weill and Charlie Chaplin. Their contributions range from small drawings and watercolours to inscriptions, poems and musical scores, frequently alluding to the artists' larger works.
The two original guestbooks, now held by the Bauhaus-Archiv, contain contributions by some 455 individuals. Each entry required original research, explanatory text and copyright checking. The volume presents them in full, accompanied by authoritative scholarly commentary with contributions by past Director of the Bauhaus-Archiv Dr Annemarie Jaeggi, Hans Hess’s daughter Anita Halpin, Marine Picard, Prof Henry Keazor, Dr Tomas Flierl, cultural critic and art historians Nick Wright and Conrad Landin and Dr Lucy Burke.
A team of some 25 people contributed to this landmark project, including writers and editors, designers, translators, proofreaders, audio-visual engineers, archivists, experts in social media and communications, and noted contributors, some of whom are world leaders in their subject.
The publication follows three previous volumes of Selected Writings of Hans Hess, each with a detailed and highly professional audio edition. A fifth volume, a biography, is in planning. The book is published by Manifesto Press in association with the Hans Hess Foundation and the Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung, Berlin.
At 608 pages, this fully bilingual volume (English and German) reproduces for the first time the two extraordinary guestbooks kept by the Hess family from 1907 to 1965. The books document the family's journey from their prosperous Erfurt household of Jewish heritage through the cultural ferment of the Weimar Republic to forced exile in Britain following the rise of fascism.
The Hess family home became a meeting point and exhibition space for the artistic avant-garde of the 1920s. Some of the most significant figures of modern art left their unique imprint in the guestbooks, including Kandinsky, Feininger, Klee, Pechstein, Nolde, Rohlfs and Molzahn, alongside Kurt Weill and Charlie Chaplin. Their contributions range from small drawings and watercolours to inscriptions, poems and musical scores, frequently alluding to the artists' larger works.
The two original guestbooks, now held by the Bauhaus-Archiv, contain contributions by some 455 individuals. Each entry required original research, explanatory text and copyright checking. The volume presents them in full, accompanied by authoritative scholarly commentary with contributions by past Director of the Bauhaus-Archiv Dr Annemarie Jaeggi, Hans Hess’s daughter Anita Halpin, Marine Picard, Prof Henry Keazor, Dr Tomas Flierl, cultural critic and art historians Nick Wright and Conrad Landin and Dr Lucy Burke.
A team of some 25 people contributed to this landmark project, including writers and editors, designers, translators, proofreaders, audio-visual engineers, archivists, experts in social media and communications, and noted contributors, some of whom are world leaders in their subject.
The publication follows three previous volumes of Selected Writings of Hans Hess, each with a detailed and highly professional audio edition. A fifth volume, a biography, is in planning. The book is published by Manifesto Press in association with the Hans Hess Foundation and the Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung, Berlin.
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