Ludwig Goldscheider (3 June 1896 – 26 June 1973) was an Austrian-British

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and

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who is known for founding the world-renowned

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Biography

Goldscheider was born in

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, then capital of the

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, to Wilhelm Goldscheider, a

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from Galicia, and his first wife Julie (Itte) Goldscheider, née Lifschitz. After serving as an officer in the

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, Goldscheider studied

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at the

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under

Julius von Schlosser Julius Alwin Franz Georg Andreas Ritter von Schlosser (23 September 1866, Vienna – 1 December 1938, Vienna) was an Austrian art historian and an important member of the Vienna School of Art History. According to Ernst Gombrich, he was "One of th ...

, and began working in various publishing houses. His first book, ''Die Wiese'' ("The Meadow"), an

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, appeared in 1921. Goldscheider co-founded Phaidon Press in 1923 under the German name ''Phaidon Verlag'', with

Béla Horovitz Béla Horovitz (8 April 1898 – 8 March 1955) was a Hungarian-born British publisher, and the co-founder in 1923, with Ludwig Goldscheider, of Phaidon Press. Bela Horovitz was born in Budapest. He was the co-founder in Vienna in 1923, with Lud ...

and Frederick "Fritz" Ungar. Phaidon Verlag became known throughout Europe for its inexpensive high-quality books about art and architecture. Goldschieder had a son with Muriel Breaks in 1941. The son's name is Jupiter 'Peter' Breaks, living in Mountain, Ontario, Canada. Goldscheider emigrated to

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in 1938 due to the

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. He and Horovitz re-established the Phaidon Press in Britain, where they published, among many other art books,

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's famous '' The Story of Art''. Goldscheider stayed with the company for 35 years as author, editor and book-designer. After Horovitz's death Goldscheider took over general management of the company. He was married to Blanca Goldscheider, sister-in-law of Elfriede Geiringer (wife of

Otto Frank Otto Heinrich Frank (12 May 1889 – 19 August 1980) was a German businessman, and the father of Anne Frank. He edited and published the first edition of her diary in 1947 (subsequently known in English as ''The Diary of a Young Girl'') and adv ...

– father of

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Selected works

* ''Michelangelo. Paintings, Sculpture, Architecture''. Phaidon Press, London 1996, . * ''Rodin. Sculptures''. Phaidon Press, Oxford 1988, . * ''Roman Portraits''. Phaidon Press, London 2004, . * ''Die schönsten Gedichte der Weltliteratur. Ein Hausbuch der Weltlyrik, von den Anfängen bis heute''. Phaidon Verlag, Wien 1934 * ''Die Wiese. Gedichte''. Amalthea-Verlag, Wien 1921. His papers are held at the

Getty Research Institute The Getty Research Institute (GRI), located at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, California, is "dedicated to furthering knowledge and advancing understanding of the visual arts".

.Inventory of the Ludwig Goldscheider Papers, 1911-1981
Accessed 9 May 2013.

References

* Stadler, Friedrich (2004): ''Die vertriebene Vernunft. Emigration und Exil österreichischer Wissenschaft 1930–1940''. LIT-Verlag, Münster # 2004, , p. 528 # 2004, , p. 523–1106 * Wendland, Ulrike. (1999) ''Biographisches Handbuch deutschsprachiger Kunsthistoriker im Exil. Leben und Werk der unter dem Nationalsozialismus verfolgten und vertriebenen Wissenschaftler.'' Saur, München, Bd. 1, pp. 208–210

External links

* Ludwig Goldscheider papers, finding aid for archive held at the Getty Research Institute. Includes biographical/ historic note. {{DEFAULTSORT:Goldscheider, Ludwig 1896 births 1973 deaths Austrian Jews Jewish emigrants from Austria after the Anschluss to the United Kingdom Austrian publishers (people) British publishers (people) Austrian art historians British art historians Writers from Vienna Austro-Hungarian military personnel of World War I Anne Frank