First U.S. edition. The diaries of Harry Kessler are considered a major document of nation in crisis. They reveal a full length portrait of Germany and Europe during the twenties and thirties, an era of cultural renaissance and political tragedy. Of course, with information on the Cranach Press. Includes and introduction by Otto Friedrich. Illustrated and indexed. Minor wear to jacket. xviii, 535 pages. cloth, dust jacket.. thick 8vo..

In the Twenties: The Diaries of Harry Kessler

KESSLER, Harry

HOLT. RINEHART AND WINSTON

These fascinating, never-before-published early diaries of Count Harry Kessler—patron, museum director, publisher, cultural critic, soldier, secret agent, and diplomat—present a sweeping panorama of the arts and politics of Belle Époque Europe, a glittering world poised to be changed irrevocably by the Great War. Kessler’s immersion in the new art and literature of Paris, London, and Berlin unfolds in the first part of the diaries. This refined world gives way to vivid descriptions of the horrific fighting on the Eastern and Western fronts of World War I, the intriguing private discussions among the German political and military elite about the progress of the war, as well as Kessler’s account of his role as a diplomat with a secret mission in Switzerland. Profoundly modern and often prescient, Kessler was an erudite cultural impresario and catalyst who as a cofounder of the avant-garde journal Pan met and contributed articles about many of the leading artists and writers of the day. In 1903 he became director of the Grand Ducal Museum of Arts and Crafts in Weimar, determined to make it a center of aesthetic modernism together with his friend the architect Henry van de Velde, whose school of design would eventually become the Bauhaus. When a public scandal forced his resignation in 1906, Kessler turned to other projects, including collaborating with the Austrian writer Hugo von Hofmannsthal and the German composer Richard Strauss on the opera Der Rosenkavalier and the ballet The Legend of Joseph, which was performed in 1914 by the Ballets Russes in London and Paris. In 1913 he founded the Cranach-Presse in Weimar, one of the most important private presses of the twentieth century. The diaries present brilliant, sharply etched, and often richly comical descriptions of his encounters, conversations, and creative collaborations with some of the most celebrated people of his time: Otto von Bismarck, Paul von Hindenburg, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Richard Strauss, Igor Stravinsky, Sergei Diaghilev, Vaslav Nijinsky, Isadora Duncan, Ruth St. Denis, Sarah Bernhardt, Friedrich Nietzsche, Rainer Marie Rilke, Paul Verlaine, Gordon Craig, George Bernard Shaw, Harley Granville-Barker, Max Klinger, Arnold Böcklin, Max Beckmann, Aristide Maillol, Auguste Rodin, Edgar Degas, Éduard Vuillard, Claude Monet, Edvard Munch, Ida Rubinstein, Gabriele D’Annunzio, Pierre Bonnard, and Walther Rathenau, among others. Remarkably insightful, poignant, and cinematic in their scope, Kessler’s diaries are an invaluable record of one of the most volatile and seminal moments in modern Western history.

Journey to the Abyss: The Diaries of Count Harry Kessler, 1880-1918

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KNOPF

These fascinating, never-before-published early diaries of Count Harry Kessler—patron, museum director, publisher, cultural critic, soldier, secret agent, and diplomat—present a sweeping panorama of the arts and politics of Belle Époque Europe, a glittering world poised to be changed irrevocably by the Great War. Kessler’s immersion in the new art and literature of Paris, London, and Berlin unfolds in the first part of the diaries. This refined world gives way to vivid descriptions of the horrific fighting on the Eastern and Western fronts of World War I, the intriguing private discussions among the German political and military elite about the progress of the war, as well as Kessler’s account of his role as a diplomat with a secret mission in Switzerland. Profoundly modern and often prescient, Kessler was an erudite cultural impresario and catalyst who as a cofounder of the avant-garde journal Pan met and contributed articles about many of the leading artists and writers of the day. In 1903 he became director of the Grand Ducal Museum of Arts and Crafts in Weimar, determined to make it a center of aesthetic modernism together with his friend the architect Henry van de Velde, whose school of design would eventually become the Bauhaus. When a public scandal forced his resignation in 1906, Kessler turned to other projects, including collaborating with the Austrian writer Hugo von Hofmannsthal and the German composer Richard Strauss on the opera Der Rosenkavalier and the ballet The Legend of Joseph, which was performed in 1914 by the Ballets Russes in London and Paris. In 1913 he founded the Cranach-Presse in Weimar, one of the most important private presses of the twentieth century. The diaries present brilliant, sharply etched, and often richly comical descriptions of his encounters, conversations, and creative collaborations with some of the most celebrated people of his time: Otto von Bismarck, Paul von Hindenburg, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Richard Strauss, Igor Stravinsky, Sergei Diaghilev, Vaslav Nijinsky, Isadora Duncan, Ruth St. Denis, Sarah Bernhardt, Friedrich Nietzsche, Rainer Marie Rilke, Paul Verlaine, Gordon Craig, George Bernard Shaw, Harley Granville-Barker, Max Klinger, Arnold Böcklin, Max Beckmann, Aristide Maillol, Auguste Rodin, Edgar Degas, Éduard Vuillard, Claude Monet, Edvard Munch, Ida Rubinstein, Gabriele D’Annunzio, Pierre Bonnard, and Walther Rathenau, among others. Remarkably insightful, poignant, and cinematic in their scope, Kessler’s diaries are an invaluable record of one of the most volatile and seminal moments in modern Western history.

Journey to the Abyss: The Diaries of Count Harry Kessler 1880-1918

Vintage

Count Harry Kessler (1868-1937), the son of a German banker and an Irish beauty, was a diplomat and publisher who moved easily among the worlds of art, politics, and society. He lived in Berlin but traveled throughout Europe, always with a keen eye for the political climate of the times. His diaries encompass an extraordinary variety of people: Einstein engages him in long discussions on his theories; Josephine Baker dances naked in Kessler's drawing room; Lloyd George presides over the farcical Genoa conference in 1922. Kessler had dinner with Max Reinhardt, George Grosz, Virginia Woolf, Jean Cocteau, and Andre Gide, lunch with Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill, and Erik Satie. His diaries encapsulate this tumultuous time frame, recording at first hand the agonizing collapse and death of Weimar Germany and the arrival of the Nazis.

Berlin in Lights: The Diaries of Count Harry Kessler, 1918-1937

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Kessler, Charles

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Grove Pr

Boxing. A fine hardcover copy. Light wear. Tight binding. Clean, unmarked pages. Very good jacket; light wear and rubbing. NOT ex-library. 371pg. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Sports History; ISBN: 0960860002. ISBN/EAN: 9780960860005. Inventory No: 013866.

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Walther Rathenau: His Life And Work (LARGE PRINT EDITION)

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Walter Rathenau: His Life and Work

WALTHER RATHENAU: HIS LIFE AND WORK. CONTENTS: INTRODUCTION 3 I. FATHER AND SON 5 II. THE WAY OF THE INTELLECT 21 III. SOCIAL INTERLUDE 43 y IV. THE REPUDIATION OF THE INTELLECT 55 V. FRIENDSHIPS 64 VI. THE REALM OF THE SOUL 74 VII. THE PATH TO THE ABYSS 117 VIII. IN DAYS TO COME 169 IX. ISOLATION 222 X. THE NEW FOREIGN POLICY THE FIGHT FOR PEACE 268 XI. THERE IS NO DEATH 34 APPENDIX 365 INDEX TO RATHENAUS WORKS 371 INDEX 373 ILLUSTRATIONS WALTHER RATHENAU IN THE CAR IN WHICH HE WAS ASSASSINATED WALTHER AND ERICH RATHENAU 1 8 WALTHER RATHENAU, FROM THE PORTRAIT BY EDVARD MUNCH 5 2 EMIL RATHENAU 6O THE C BREVIARIUM MYSTICUM 7 WALTHER RATHENAU BEFORE THE WAR IO4 ROOM IN THE SCHLOSS FREIENWALDE .138 WALTHER RATHENAUS MOTHER 3 2 WALTHER RATHENAU

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