Ludwig Goldscheider

Ludwig Goldscheider ( born June 3, 1896 in Vienna, † 26 June 1973 in London ) was an English art historian and publisher of Austrian origin. His parents were originally from Galicia watchmaker Wilhelm Goldscheider and his first wife Julie ( Itte ) born Lifschitz.

Life

After the First World War, in which he participated as an officer, Goldscheider studied at the University of Vienna, among others Art history. He started various publishers to work and could make his debut in 1921 with his poetry anthology The meadow.

Two years later he founded together with Béla Horovitz and Fritz Ungar the Phaidon. Until 1938, the publisher could almost make a name in Europe with inexpensive books on art and architecture. Forced by political events, emigrated Goldscheider 1938 together with Horovitz and Hungary to London. He even founded during the Second World War, his publisher as Phaidon Press again.

Works (selection)

  • Michelangelo. Paintings, sculpture, architecture. Phaidon Press, London 1996, ISBN 0-7148-3296-0.
  • Rodin. Sculptures. Phaidon Press, Oxford, 1988, ISBN 0-7148-9000-6.
  • Roman portraits. Pres Phaidon, London 2004, ISBN 0-7148-4436-5.
  • The most beautiful poems of world literature. A House Book of World Poetry, from its beginnings to today. Phaidon Verlag, Wien 1934
  • The meadow. Poems. Amalthea -Verlag, Vienna, 1921.
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