Anglo-German count, diplomat, writer, and patron of modern art
Harry Graf Kessler
Born
23 May 1868
Paris, Second Empire
Died
30 November 1937
Lyon, French Third Republic
Nationality
German
Education
University of Bonn, University of Leipzig
Known for
being a diplomat and a man of letters
Harry Clemens Ulrich Graf von Kessler (23 May 1868 – 30 November 1937) was an Anglo-German count, diplomat, writer, and patron of modern art. English translations of his diaries "Journey to the Abyss" (2011) and "Berlin in Lights" (1971) reveal anecdotes and details of artistic, theatrical, and political life in Europe, mostly in Germany, from the late 19th century through the collapse of Germany at the end of World War I until his death in Lyon in 1937.
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Harry Clemens Ulrich Graf von Kessler (23 May 1868 – 30 November 1937) was an Anglo-German count, diplomat, writer, and patron of modern art. English...
of Bauhaus, known as "Das Neue Weimar" ("The New Weimar") around HarryGrafKessler. It was a foundation against Prussia's restrictive arts policy favouring...
woodcut illustrations for an edition of Vergil's Eclogues published by HarryGrafKessler in 1926–27. He also illustrated Daphnis and Chloe by Longus (1937)...
of Potiphar's Wife, with a libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal and HarryGrafKessler and music by Richard Strauss. Composed in 1912–14, it premiered at...
artist Lucas Cranach the Younger (c. 1515–1586), German artist Granach HarryGrafKessler (1868–1937), founder of the Cranach Press This page lists people with...
58-80. Oxford University Press, 2013. Kessler, HarryGraf (1990). Berlin in Lights: The Diaries of Count HarryKessler (1918–1937). New York: Grove Press...
Heinrich Wölfflin, Rudolf Kassner, Hermann Graf Keyserling, Karl Wolfskehl, Ludwig Klages, HarryGrafKessler, Alfred Schuler, Georg Simmel, Hjalmar Schacht...
university lecturer Elly Heuss-Knapp (1881–1952), social reformer HarryGrafKessler (1868–1937), art collector and diplomat Erich Koch-Weser (1875–1944)...
Rudolf Goldscheid, Emil J. Gumbel, Paul Guttfeld, Arthur Holitscher, HarryGrafKessler, Gustav Landauer, Otto Lehmann-Rußbüldt, Ernst Meyer, Georg Friedrich...
January 1922, and the club continued into the 1930s. Guests included HarryGrafKessler, Otto Hoetzsch, Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi, Sir Horace Rumbold...
Rosenkavalier (1911), the plot of which he developed together with HarryGrafKessler, Ariadne auf Naxos (1912, rev. 1916), Die Frau ohne Schatten (1919)...
audience includes Gabriele D'Annunzio, Coco Chanel, Marcel Duchamp, HarryGrafKessler and Maurice Ravel. Police are called during the interval. September...
fruit, Hofmannsthal visited HarryGrafKessler in Weimar. Over the course of a few days in February 1909, Hofmannsthal and Kessler drafted a scenario inspired...
Invasion: The Conquest of Serbia, 1915. ISBN 978-1-4408-0092-4. HarryGrafKessler: Das Tagebuch 1906-1914. Jörg Schuster. 2004. p. 1029. ISBN 9783768198141...
audience includes Gabriele D'Annunzio, Coco Chanel, Marcel Duchamp, HarryGrafKessler and Maurice Ravel. May 30 – First Balkan War: The Treaty of London...
December 1998, the German Artist Federation awarded him the honorary HarryGrafKessler Award for his life work. Stankowski's work is noted for straddling...
Kultur Sachbuchpreis is a literary prize of Germany. 2010 Diaries by HarryGrafKessler 2020 Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men...
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