Thames & Hudson is 75 Years Old

Drawing of Walter and Eva Neurath with George Weidenfeld at Frankfurt Book Fair

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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