8 âThe Craftsmanâs Sympathyâ: Bernhard Baer, Ganymed and Oskar Kokoschkaâs King Learââ150

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8 âThe Craftsmanâs Sympathyâ: Bernhard Baer, Ganymed and Oskar Kokoschkaâs King Learââ150

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004395107_010

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Drawing primarily on the Ganymed papers in the Victoria and Albert Museum archives, the Bernhard Baer papers in the Wiener Library archives in London, and interviews with Mrs Ann Baer, this chapter explores the significant but overlooked contribution to the applied arts in postwar Britain by German-Jewish Ã©migrÃ© Bernhard Baer, who came to England in 1938: as director of the Ganymed Press in London, and, from 1961 onwards, of Ganymed Original Editions, the company set up on his initiative to print (by a variety of methods) and publish graphic works by living artists in signed limited editions. By inclination and experience, Baer was a meticulous and sympathetic craftsman, who combined technical knowledge with an acute aesthetic sensibility and oversaw every stage of production. This chapter focuses on his partnership in 1962â63 with Austriaâs best-known Ã©migrÃ© artist and the leading exponent of Expressionism, Oskar Kokoschka, whom he commissioned to create sixteen original lithographs for a deluxe limited edition of Shakespeareâs King Lear, which Kokoschka afterwards called his âmost beloved work in printâ. This project, commended by Kokoschka as a âgreat British productionâ, was executed in both Switzerland and England, then disseminated through Marlborough Fine Art in London by Viennese-born gallerist Harry Fischer, bringing together the final strands of this remarkable Ã©migrÃ© collaboration.

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Applied Arts in British Exile from 1933

Changing Visual and Material Culture

Series:Â Yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies, Volume: 19

Cover Applied Arts in British Exile from 1933

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Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 05 Apr 2019

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