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    Title

  • Photograph of Lion Feuchtwanger

  • Physical Description

    1 photograph : black-and-white

  • Date

    1958

  • Summary

    The photograph of Lion Feuchtwanger was taken by Lotte Walter, daughter of the conductor Bruno Walter.

  • Depicted

    Feuchtwanger, Lion, 1884-1958

  • Subject

    Authors; Portraits, Men

  • Genre

    Photographs

  • Accession Number

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Biographical/Historical Information

The author Lion Feuchtwanger (1884-1958) was a prominent figure in the literary world of Weimar Germany, where he excelled in historically based novels with a strong anti-fascist and cultural-Jewish message. He left Nazi Germany for France, where he was interned, and after a most difficult escape he found asylum in the United States, renewing his fame there with further writings. Lion Feuchtwanger died in Los Angeles, California.

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Citation

Photograph of Lion Feuchtwanger, Leo Baeck Institute, F 2153B.