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Thomas Mann: The Ironic German

STEICHEN, EDWARD MANN, THOMASBiblio.com

Thomas Mann New York

19342522New York: n.p. 1934. Very Good. POWERFUL STEICHEN PORTRAIT OF THOMAS MANN FROM CHANCE MEETING IN NEW YORK. Edward Steichen was one of the early pioneers of photographic art leading the movement of photography from its established position as a utilitarian medium to a mode of creative expression. As a major contributor to Alfred Stieglitz's Camera Work magazine in the first decades of the twentieth century Steichen had cemented his reputation as a new kind of photographer enjoying both artistic and commercial success-working as chief photographer for Condé Nast and later heading the Met's photography department. In 1959 having completed the first decade in his tenure as director of the Museum of Modern Art's photography division Steichen was approached by Tas Toth about curating a new display to serve as a counterpart to Steichen's astronomically successful The Family of Man-a MoMA exhibition that would become and remains to-date the most-viewed photographic exhibition. Toth's exhibition to be called Das menschliche Antlitz Europas The Human Face of Europe would mirror The Family of Man's thematic emphasis on shared humanity principally by showcasing images by distinguished figures including Cartier-Bresson Boubat Brassai and Doisneau alongside works by lesser-known artists. Initially the renowned artists were hesitant to contribute towards this unique concept and it was only after Steichen endorsed Toth by allowing him to exhibit his portrait of Thomas Mann that a large number of eminent photographers agreed to contribute to the group exhibition. Steichen's impactful photograph is the work present here. Steichen had taken the image in the United States where Mann would emigrate in 1939 to avoid mounting persecution in his native Germany and where Mann would remain until 1952. It was in 1934 that Mann to promote his Jospeh series made his first journey to America- embarking on RMS Volendam and arriving in New York to great fanfare-"scarcely dreaming" writes biographer Nigel Hamilton "he would one day become an American citizen" p. 283. The image of Mann follows in a line of portraits by Steichen of leading world figures from Churchill and FDR to Chaplin and Gershwin. Furthermore the present photograph preserves in addition to Mann's likeness the providential meeting of two of the most impactful twentieth century creatives who would both make their homes in the New World. Provenance: -Donated by Steichen to the original owner when he worked on the organization of the exhibition 'Das Menschliche Antlitz Europas'. -Christie's lot 218 Sale 7415 21 Nov. 1996 Exhibited: 'Das Menschliche Antlitz Europas' Municipal Museum of Munich 1959. STEICHEN EDWARD. Thomas Mann New York 1934. Gelatin silver print before 1959. 23.8 x 18.8 cm 9 ⅜ x 7 ⅜ in. Mounted on paperboard signed on the reverse in what does not appear to be Steichen's hand: "Edward Steichen" and numbered in pencil. With a tiny amount of touch-up at extreme top corner almost entirely beneath the matte. Handsomely framed. References: Hamilton Nigel The Brothers Mann New Haven: Yale University Press 1979 Steichen Edward A Life in Photography New York: Bonanza 1984. n.p. unknown

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Thomas Mann Writes of Penning ""Buddenbrooks"" in Solitude and Reflects Philosophically on the Impact of his Work Worldwide

16041818816/04/1936. <blockquote>An incredibly rare and unpublished letter relating to his perhaps most famous work</blockquote>1936 was a momentous year for Mann. That year his escalated attacks on the Nazi government led to his German citizenship being revoked. He traveled to Argentina his maternal homeland for a PEN International Conference which was organized to bring peace and understanding between cultures using literature.In 1900 at the age of 25 Thomas Mann wrote and in 1901 published Buddenbrooks chronicling the decline of a wealthy north German merchant family over the course of four generations. Mann drew deeply from the history of his own family the Mann family of LÃ¼beck and their times. It was Mann's first novel and it made him a major literary figure. The work led to a Nobel Prize in Literature for Mann in 1929; although the Nobel award generally recognizes an author's body of work the Swedish Academy's citation for Mann identified ""his great novel Buddenbrooks"" as the principal reason for his prize. Mann began writing the book in October 1897 when he was twenty-two years old. The novel was completed three years later in July 1900 and published in October 1901.Henry Hart was an American publisher who worked mainly for Scribner's in New York. He was working with Mann on the publication of English-language versions of his works including Nocturns.Typed letter signed in German to Hart April 16 1936.""I am hurrying to acknowledge receipt of your check from August 25th and am happy that sales of the â€œNocturnesâ€ are gradually progressing.""You have added some very personal notes to your letter hat I would like to address with a few words. The trip to Moscow I will definitely make but will have to postpone it for now since I have travel plans to Vienna and Budapest in the immediate future. For the summer I have agreed to travel to Bueno Aires for the PEN Club Congress. I had committed to this trip a while ago and therefore have to travel there first. This trip is especially enticing to me since it will take me to Rio de Janeiro. It is the home of my mother who often told me about the beauty of the coast when I was a child.""I was very touched about what you told me regarding your repeated studies of the novel of my youth. I finished it when I was 25 years old. The young man who wrote that book in his solitude could not have dreamed that it would be his calling in life to influence the intellectual life of people in a foreign continent in a educating and encouraging way. From the bottom of my heart I wish you have happy and beautiful ideas for your work and am repeating my request to please send me a copy your book once it is printed."" unknown

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Thomas Mann In Exile from Nazi Germany On His Decision Not to Endorse the Communist Declaration of the First American Writers Congress: ""It is an act of good conscience of what is my duty and what is not""

19352132622/04/1935. <blockquote>This letter was acquired from the family of the recipient and has never been offered for sale before</blockquote>In 1900 at the age of 25 Thomas Mann wrote and in 1901 published Buddenbrooks chronicling the decline of a wealthy north German merchant family over the course of four generations. Mann drew deeply from the history of his own family the Mann family of LÃ¼beck and their times. It was Mannâ€™s first novel and it made him a major literary figure. The work led to a Nobel Prize in Literature for Mann in 1929; although the Nobel award generally recognizes an authorâ€™s body of work the Swedish Academyâ€™s citation for Mann identified â€œhis great novel Buddenbrooksâ€ as the principal reason for his prize. Mann began writing the book in October 1897 when he was twenty-two years old.Henry Hart was an American publisher who worked mainly for Scribnerâ€™s in New York. He was working with Mann on the publication of English-language versions of his works including Nocturns.The League of American Writers was established by the First American Writers Congress a gathering held from April 26â€“28 1935. It was an association of American novelists playwrights poets journalists and literary critics launched by the Communist Party USA in 1935. The group included Communist Party members and so-called ""fellow travelers"" who closely followed the Communist Party's political line without being formal party members as well as individuals sympathetic to specific policies being advocated by the parrty.In 1933 after the takeover of the Nazi party while travelling in the South of France Mann heard from his eldest children Klaus and Erika in Munich that it would not be safe for him to return to Germany. The family except these two children emigrated to KÃ¼snacht near ZÃ¼rich Switzerland but received Czechoslovak citizenship and a passport in 1936.Typed letter signed April 22 1935 to Hart his publisher. ""It is not easy for me to answer your suggestion in regards to this business news. I have read very carefully the appeal of the American writerâ€™s congress. However I have unsurmountable concerns about contributing a statement to the congress. In the second half of the appeal there is mention of â€˜civil libertiesâ€™. It stands in logical contradiction to all previous statements which have a purely communist character. A telegram on my part as you have asked me to send would be a clear support of communism which I am not able to force myself to give. I have a true love of civil liberties as much as I am against fascism and war. I much prefer the communist revolution to that of the fascists. Nevertheless the wording of this appeal and the political orientation it lends to this congress does not allow me to follow your wishes to send a note of unrestricted sympathy to the congress. I beg you to understand and not interpret my position as a lack of courage. It is an act of good conscience of what is my duty and what is not.""Earlier than planned my wife and I will have the opportunity to see you again. In June a little bit later than last time we will come to America and stay for a short while in New York.""This letter was acquired from the family of the recipient and has never before been offered for sale. unknown

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Tom Mann [Thomas Mann] (1856-1941), trade unionist, socialist and communist [A G L Rogers]:Biblio.com

Thomas Mann trade unionist and communist. Two Autograph Letters Signed both ‘Tom Mann’ as Secretary of London Reform Union one endorsing a ‘scheme’ which will reduce the death rate; the other about ‘Douglas’ and a meeting of the Stepney Branch

2399012 and 30 May 1993; both on letterhead of London Reform Union Granville House 3 Arundel Street W.C. London. See the entry for Thomas Mann in the Oxford DNB. From the papers of Arthur George Liddon Rogers 1864-1944 son and editor of the economist Thorold Rogers James Edwin Thorold Rogers 1823-1890 for information regarding whom see his entry in the Oxford DNB. The second letter in good condition lightly aged and folded once; the first in fair condition folded three times with a number of short closed tears along creases. Mann is writing in his capacity as Secretary of the London Reform Union for whose ‘Object’ see the end of this entry. ONE: 12 May 1893. 2pp 4to. He has ‘just returned from Hall’ to find Rogers’ letter ‘giving resolutions carried at last Fridays meeting of Stepney Branch of L. R. U. at which I am very much surprised as I had definatly sic fixed the evening for Stepney & the only reason for my not attending was the receipt of the enclosed wired from Douglas’. He explains that he has not received ‘the letter referred to in the wire’. He is ‘very sorry that any disappointment should have been caused the Branch’ and will be ‘glad to attend any meeting that they may think well to arrange’. He surmises that Douglas ‘is annoyed that he has been discharged from the Central Office this was decided upon by the Finance Committee when a reorganisation of the Office was carried out by them’. TWO: 30 May 1893. 2pp 4to. He apologises for the delay in sending on the promised item which he had mislaid and only found that morning. ‘I am of opinion that the scheme is well worthy of adoption & believe that the deathrate would be materially reduced if applied all over London as already applied in part of Chelsea’ He has been to Chelsea ‘to see the thing as applied & there is nothing unsightly in the whole thing’. He hopes to see him on the coming Friday. Both letters have the ornate illustrated letterhead of the London Reform Union whose ambitious ‘OBJECT’ is stated in block capitals: ‘To reform the existing administration of the river docks and wharves the markets water supply means of lighting locomotion police the city funds hospitals and other charities to disseminate knowledge concerning the unfavourable conditiosn under which vast numbers of the working population live owing to defective and insanitary dwellings and working accommodation irregular and ill-paid labour the competition of alien immigrants the harshness of the poor law the unjust incidence of taxation the adulteration of food and other grave disadvantages and to obtain for London full powers of municipal government.’ 12 and 30 May 1993; both on letterhead of London Reform Union, Granville House, 3 Arundel Street, W.C. [London]. unknown

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