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Stephen Games:
Pevsner: The Early Life:
Germany and Art
LF104
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Booking opens 1st July 2010
The Hampstead & Highgate Literary Festival is sponsored by BDO. Today's events are sponsored by FIBI Bank (UK) Plc.
Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, who lived for 50 years in Hampstead, was the best known and most important architectural historian of the twentieth century. He arrived at England after being forced from teaching by the Nazis. In this session, based on the first volume of his biography Pevsner - The Early Life: Germany and Art, Stephen Games reviews the early career of Pevsner who, against the backdrop of Hitler, had to rethink his entire career and outlook when Germany no longer offered him a home.
Stephen Games is an author and editor. His books include John Betjeman's Trains and Buttered Toast; Tennis Whites and Teacakes; Sweet Songs of Zion and most recently Betjeman's England. He is the author of Behind the Facade and editor of Pevsner on Art and Architecture, the collection of Nikolaus Pevsner's radio talks in which he first revealed some of the great art historian's German past.
The Hampstead & Highgate Literary Festival is sponsored by BDO. Today's events are sponsored by FIBI Bank (UK) Plc.
Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, who lived for 50 years in Hampstead, was the best known and most important architectural historian of the twentieth century. He arrived at England after being forced from teaching by the Nazis. In this session, based on the first volume of his biography Pevsner - The Early Life: Germany and Art, Stephen Games reviews the early career of Pevsner who, against the backdrop of Hitler, had to rethink his entire career and outlook when Germany no longer offered him a home.
Stephen Games is an author and editor. His books include John Betjeman's Trains and Buttered Toast; Tennis Whites and Teacakes; Sweet Songs of Zion and most recently Betjeman's England. He is the author of Behind the Facade and editor of Pevsner on Art and Architecture, the collection of Nikolaus Pevsner's radio talks in which he first revealed some of the great art historian's German past.