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    Title

  • Karl Wolfskehl : portrait photograph

  • Physical Description

    1 photograph : black-and-white

  • Date

    circa 1940?

  • Place of Publication

    [Auckland, N.Z.]

  • Depicted

    Wolfskehl, Karl, 1869-1948

  • Subject

    Portraits, Men; Authors

  • Genre

    Photographs

  • Part Of

    Erich Kahler collection, AR 2141

  • Accession Number

  • URL

Biographical/Historical Information

The German Jewish author Karl Wolfskehl - born in Darmstadt in 1869 - wrote poetry, prose, and drama. In the early 20th century, he was a central personality in the literary and artistic life of Munich, associating with writers (Rainer Maria Rilke and Thomas Mann); artists (Paul Klee, Alfred Kubin); and philosophers (Martin Buber). He also worked as a translator, working with French, English, Italian, Hebrew, Latin, and Middle High German texts. Wolfskehl left Nazi Germany in 1933 for Switzerland and then Italy, and settled 1938 in New Zealand, where he died in 1948.

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Citation

Karl Wolfskehl : portrait photograph, Leo Baeck Institute, F 3507A.