Eva Herrmann: dust jacket design for Lion Feuchtwanger’s book: Exil (presumably January 1939)
Eva Herrmann: dust jacket design for Lion Feuchtwanger’s book: Exil (presumably January 1939)
This drawing is from a series of cover designs by the painter Eva Herrmann. The long-time friend of author Lion Feuchtwanger designed the book covers for his novel Exil. She developed sketches for the English, Russian and German editions. This book, which is the third volume of Feuchtwanger's Wartesaaltrilogy, was published in 1940 by the exile publishing house Querido in Amsterdam. The English edition, entitled Paris Gazette, was published by Viking Verlag in 1940 with a book cover designed by Eva Herrmann.
The vividness of the Paris Gazette version makes it stand out prominently among the various cover designs. In this work, Herrmann offers visions of the challenges those in exile had to face. Two hands tugging on the outer edge of a newspaper page, nearly tearing it apart. Yet the paper withstands the tensile test. In Feuchtwanger's novel there is a tug-of-war between the Nazi party headquarters and his compatriots living in exile in Paris.
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