The couple on the left established one of the world’s finest art book publishers after coming to the UK when the Nazis took power in Austria.
Must have been strange – at first, anyway – to go to Frankfurt after the war.
This drawing is based on the only photograph I can find of the couple together on the whole of the Internet. The photo is black-and-white but I decided to do the picture in colour.
I would very much like to have the publishing company they founded – still family owned – accept me as a kind of artist in residence, to continue the series I started recently at Sort Of books.
Plainly, it would help if I actually asked the company first (!), so I am posting this to make myself accountable.
Walter and Eva Neurath are shown here talking to – well, I didn’t know for sure until I asked their son, who confirmed that the figure on the right is another German Jewish refugee and publishing legend, George Weidenfeld.
Drawn on iPad, using the splendid Procreate app.
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Thank you for looking.
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