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Reimann School
The Reimann School of Art and Design was a private art school which was founded in Berlin in 1902 by Albert Reimann, and re-established in Regency Street, Pimlico, London in January 1937 after persecution by the Nazis. It was the first commercial art school in Britain. The school closed at the outbreak of World War II and its premises were subsequently destroyed by bombing. Notable staff Staff in Berlin included Walter Peterhans, Werner Graeff. In London, (Florence) Louise Clarke Aldred (1910–1997) was head of textiles from 1939. Stanley Herbert taught poster design and another poster designer, Austin Cooper, was principal. Other staff included Walter Nurnberg (a student from the Berlin school), Richard Hamilton, Leonard Rosoman, Eric Fraser, Milner Gray and Merlyn Evans. Alumni The school's alumni included : Berlin * Jacqueline Diffring * Natasha Kroll * Elisabeth Meyer * Walter Nurnberg * Alma Siedhoff-Buscher * Henry Talbot * Mauricio Amster London ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berlin
Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constituent states, Berlin is surrounded by the State of Brandenburg and contiguous with Potsdam, Brandenburg's capital. Berlin's urban area, which has a population of around 4.5 million, is the second most populous urban area in Germany after the Ruhr. The Berlin-Brandenburg capital region has around 6.2 million inhabitants and is Germany's third-largest metropolitan region after the Rhine-Ruhr and Rhine-Main regions. Berlin straddles the banks of the Spree, which flows into the Havel (a tributary of the Elbe) in the western borough of Spandau. Among the city's main topographical features are the many lakes in the western and southeastern boroughs formed by the Spree, Havel and Dahme, the largest of which is Lake Müggelsee. Due to its l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elisabeth Meyer (photographer)
Elisabeth Meyer (1899 – 1968) was a Norwegian photographer and journalist who is best known for her photo-journalistic work from travels through Iran and India in the 1920s and 1930s, among them early photographs of Mahatma Gandhi. Meyer traveled through Iran on her own and may have been the first Western woman to travel through Iran in this way. There was a total ban on photographing in Iran at the time and she was arrested several times, but released with a warning. In Turkey she visited Kemal Atatürk in his private residence and his bedroom covered in pink silk. In Irak she interviewed king Faisal in his "palais just outside Baghdad". In India the young Indira Nehru helped Meyer visit the imprisoned Mahatma Gandhi, and she described the meeting like this: «Any other man would appear ridiculous in that outfit, but with regard to Gandhi all criticism is silenced. I was never particularly enthusiastic about Gandhi, but now I am completely converted. He is one of the most symp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1902 Establishments In Germany
Nineteen or 19 may refer to: * 19 (number), the natural number following 18 and preceding 20 * one of the years 19 BC, AD 19, 1919, 2019 Films * ''19'' (film), a 2001 Japanese film * ''Nineteen'' (film), a 1987 science fiction film Music * 19 (band), a Japanese pop music duo Albums * ''19'' (Adele album), 2008 * ''19'', a 2003 album by Alsou * ''19'', a 2006 album by Evan Yo * ''19'', a 2018 album by MHD * ''19'', one half of the double album ''63/19'' by Kool A.D. * ''Number Nineteen'', a 1971 album by American jazz pianist Mal Waldron * ''XIX'' (EP), a 2019 EP by 1the9 Songs * "19" (song), a 1985 song by British musician Paul Hardcastle. * "Nineteen", a song by Bad4Good from the 1992 album ''Refugee'' * "Nineteen", a song by Karma to Burn from the 2001 album ''Almost Heathen''. * "Nineteen" (song), a 2007 song by American singer Billy Ray Cyrus. * "Nineteen", a song by Tegan and Sara from the 2007 album '' The Con''. * "XIX" (song), a 2014 song by Slipknot. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marianne Steiner (nee Esberg)
Marianne () has been the national personification of the French Republic since the French Revolution, as a personification of liberty, equality, fraternity and reason, as well as a portrayal of the Goddess of Liberty. Marianne is displayed in many places in France and holds a place of honour in town halls and law courts. She is depicted in the ''Triumph of the Republic'', a bronze sculpture overlooking the Place de la Nation in Paris, as well as represented with another Parisian statue on the Place de la République. Her profile stands out on the official government logo of the country, appears on French euro coins and on French postage stamps. She was also featured on the former franc currency and is officially used on most government documents. Marianne is a significant republican symbol; her French monarchist equivalent is often Joan of Arc. As a national icon Marianne represents opposition to monarchy and the championship of freedom and democracy against all forms of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iris Birtwistle
Iris Mary Birtwistle (29 May 1918 – 22 June 2006; also known as Lilla and IM Birtwistle) was an English lyric poet and gallery ownerObituary , '''', 23 June 2006 who nurtured young artists despite eventually losing her sight. Life & career Born near , on 29 May 1918, the ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Arnold Rothholz
Hans Arnold Rothholz (1919–2000) was a poster designer and graphic artist born in Dresden, Germany who immigrated to Britain in 1933. As a friend and colleague of Tom Eckersley, George Him and Abram Games, Rothholz belonged to a generation of designers who transformed visual communication in Britain. Rothholz's posters are featured in many public collections, including the Imperial War Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the London Transport Museum,Breakell, Sue and Whitworth, Lesley"Émigré Designers in the University of Brighton Design Archives" ''Journal of Design History'', 2013 and his archive is located at University of Brighton Design Archives. Education Rothholz began his artistic training at Willesden School of Art, then studied commercial art and display design at the Reimann School, London (1938-9) - a successor of the renowned Reimann Schule in Berlin. He was one of the few students to receive the Reimann School Diploma. Career 1940s During the Second ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jon Miller (TV Presenter)
Jon Miller (born John Miller, 14 July 1921 – 30 July 2008) was a British television presenter who was best known for his appearances on the educational children's television science programme ''How (TV series), How'' between 1966 and 1981 with Jack Hargreaves, Bunty James and Fred Dinenage. Early life Born in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, in 1921, Miller was a cousin of classical violinist Yehudi Menuhin. His mother, Edie, was a concert pianist and his father, Jack, established a chain of kiosks and shops in London selling tobacco, sweets and fishing tackle. Miller was brought up in London and on the West Sussex coast where, at the family's holiday home, an early fascination for marine life was nurtured. Career Miller attended Bedales School and studied photography at the Reimann School in London between 1939 and 1941. In World War II he served in the RAF as an aerial photographer. In 1947 he volunteered for the brigade working on the post-war Youth work actions, Yugoslav Youth Rail ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anneliese Juda
Anneliese (, ) is a female given name of either German, Dutch or Nordic origin. It is a compound form of "Anna" and "Liese", a short form of "Elisabeth". It may refer to: *Anneliese Bauer, East German slalom canoer who competed in the late 1950s and early 1960s * Anneliese Bläsing (1923–1996), German politician * Anneliese Dodds (born 1978), British politician *Anneliese Dørum (1939–2000), Norwegian politician for the Labour Party *Anneliese Dressel, broadcaster on C103 FM. C103 FM from Cork, Ireland *Anneliese Groscurth (1910–1996), wife of Georg Groscurth, member an antifascist German resistance group in Berlin during the Nazi era * Anneliese Heard (born 1981), Welsh triathlete from Bassaleg near Newport, Wales * Anneliese Maier (1905–1971), German historian of science * Anneliese Michel (1952–1976), German Catholic woman, supposedly disturbed with demons, who underwent an exorcism *Anneliese Rothenberger (1924–2010), German operatic soprano *Anneliese Schuh-Proxa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eileen Evans
Eileen Margaret Evans (8 November 1921 - August 2006) was a British graphic designer who co-founded the Mount/Evans design studio with graphic designer, Reginald Mount after World War II. Biography Evans studied commercial art at the Reimann School in London, graduating in 1939. Evans selected this school expressly due to its reputation for providing good employment opportunities. Shortly afterwards, she joined the Ministry of Information (which later became the Central Office of Information or COI). During the war Evans and Mount worked together at the Ministry of Information designing many public information and propaganda posters. Evans also created posters independently of Mount, including at least one recruitment poster for farm workers, plus several for the ''Lend A Hand on the Land '' campaign which encouraged city families to take working holidays to help with wartime harvests. Evans is one of the featured artists in the National Archives 'The Art of War' collecti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorrit Dekk
Dorrit Dekk, born Dorothy Karoline Fuhrmann, (18 May 1917 – 29 December 2014) was a Czech-born British graphic designer, printmaker and painter. Early life Dekk was born in Brno, Margraviate of Moravia and trained at the Kunstgewerbeschule, Vienna from 1936 to 1938. There she was taught by Otto Niedermoser, the stage designer, and contributed to designs for the theatre and for film director Max Reinhardt. Following the Anschluss in 1938, Dekk escaped to London, where she took up a place at the Reimann School through a scholarship arranged by Niedermoser and specialised in graphic design. Career Following the closure of the Reimann School in 1939, Dekk joined the Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS) and as a linguist became a radio intelligence officer listening to U-boat communications. As a Y-station 'listener', she intercepted coded messages sent to German naval forces with her hand-written transcripts then being sent to Bletchley Park for deciphering. At the end of the war ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agatha Christie
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, (; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. She also wrote the world's longest-running play, the murder mystery ''The Mousetrap'', which has been performed in the West End since 1952. A writer during the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction", Christie has been called the "Queen of Crime". She also wrote six novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. In 1971, she was made a Dame (DBE) by Queen Elizabeth II for her contributions to literature. ''Guinness World Records'' lists Christie as the best-selling fiction writer of all time, her novels having sold more than two billion copies. Christie was born into a wealthy upper middle class family in Torquay, Devon, and was largely home-schooled. She was initially an unsuccessful writer with six co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce Angrave
Bruce Angrave (6 December 1912 – 8 July 1983) was an English illustrator and poster artist. He designed many posters for the large railway companies, as well as posters and cartoons for Ministry of Information during World War II. Biography Angrave was born on 6 December 1912, in Leicester, England, son of graphic designer and photographer Charles F. Angrave and Elsie, née Letts, living in Westcotes. He was a cousin of Trafford Smith, Governor of Malta. His father was a lithograph artist and he was educated by Austin Cooper at Reimann School of Art and Design. He also studied at the Chiswick School of Art in Bedford Park and the Central School of Art and Design, London. As well as Cooper, Angrave took influence from Tom Eckersley, Lewitt-Him and Abram Games. Angrave was commissioned by the main railway companies to create posters in the 1930s, as well as British Railways in the 1950s. One of his posters, advertising "Newquay: Cornwall's finest Atlantic resort" for Great Wes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
