Mayakovsky, Vladimir, 1893-1930
Person
Dates
- Existence: 18930719 - 19300414
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Foire International du Livre Ancien / Sims Reed ; Arp H ; Burliuk D ; Kruchenykh A ; Mayakovsky V ; Exter A ; Kamensky V ; D'Albisola T ; Apollinaire G ; Duchamp M ; Mallarme S ; Goncharova N ; Johns J ; Beckett S ; Malevich K ; Punin N ; Ray M ; Tzara T ; Miro J ; Crevel R ; Breton A ; Oldenburg C ; Rozanova O ; Ruscha E ; Teige K ; Tilson Ja., 2006
Item
Identifier: CC-45055-47231
Scope and Contents
This catalogue is from the International Book Fair in Paris in May 2006. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Dates:
2006
Podoby / Hoffmeister, Adolf ; Mayakovsky V ; Grosz G ; Cocteau J ; Joyce J ; Tzara T ; Soupault P ; Valery P ; Goll Y ; Aragon L ; Ernst M ; Biebl K ; Nezval V ; Filla E ; Picasso P ; Brod M ; Burian EF., 1961
Item
Identifier: CC-51692-72792
Scope and Contents
This book consists of illustrated interviews and essays about European artistic and literary figures from the 1920s to 1960s written and depicted with caricatures by Hoffmeister.Adolf Hoffmeister (1902-1973) was a poet, novelist, artist, translator and editor. He edited one of the main Czech daily newspapers, Lidove noviny (1928-30) and the main literary paper, Literarnà noviny (1930-32). He was also a talented artist and caricaturist, often illustrating his own work. Hoffmeister set up an anti-fascist magazine, Simplicus, in the 1930s after the German satiric magazine Simplicissimus was banned by the Nazis. He also wrote the libretto for a children's opera, Brundibar, with music by the Czech composer Hans Krasa in 1938; the opera was performed fifty-five times by children in TerezÃn concentration camp where Krasa was interned. Hoffmeister emigrated to France in 1939, but moved on to Morocco when France fell. There, he was arrested but escaped from an internment camp and arrived...
Dates:
1961