Known as 'the Red Count' because of his fiercely republican views, Count Harry Kessler was intensely involved in the art, politics and society of Weimar Germany. A writer of sharp perception and boundless curiosity, Harry Kessler wrote down everything as it happened. The diaries encompass an extraordinary variety of people. Josephine Baker dances naked in his drawing-room, Einstein engages him in long discussions about his theories, George Grosz contacts him from underground during the political troubles. Asquith and ...
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Known as 'the Red Count' because of his fiercely republican views, Count Harry Kessler was intensely involved in the art, politics and society of Weimar Germany. A writer of sharp perception and boundless curiosity, Harry Kessler wrote down everything as it happened. The diaries encompass an extraordinary variety of people. Josephine Baker dances naked in his drawing-room, Einstein engages him in long discussions about his theories, George Grosz contacts him from underground during the political troubles. Asquith and Cocteau, Diaghilev and Gide, Lloyd George and Richard Strauss, Rodin and Bernard Shaw, Eric Gill and Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Virginia Woolf and Paul Valery, are among the people he knew and observed. He took a keen interest in politics. Alongside his artistic adventures are accounts of street fighting, the Spartacus uprising, the murder of Rosa Luxemburg, government upheavals, international disputes, elections and assassinations.
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Near Fine in Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" (UK) 1st publication of the second British edition; the book first appeared in Germany in 1961. No markings, there is a very very faint small discoloration to the bottom edge of pages, otherwise about Fine in Fine dust jacket. Boards, xiv, 535pp, index, a few line drawings. 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, This book is taken from his diaries which were only fully discovered in the 1950s. The entries encompass a wide vsriety of people, from Josephine Baker to Einstein. from George Grosz to Hugo von Hofmannsthal, from George Bernard Shaw to Eric Gill. (2.9 JM HOQ 101/a6.
