Herbert Fiedler: Bombardement von Rotterdam [The Bombing of Rotterdam] (1940)
The bombing of Rotterdam by the German Air Force on 14 May 1940, four days after the invasion of the neutral Netherlands by the German Armed Forces, led to the surrender of the poorly equipped armed forces followed the next day. The exile, Herbert Fiedler, and the Dutchman, Henk Chabot, both immortalised the events of 1940 in an oil painting.
Herbert Fiedler: M.J. Kosterstraat im Winter [M.J. Kosterstraat in Winter] (1942)
The fascination of the painter, Herbert Fiedler, for the city with all its facets was revived in Amsterdam. “Strolled along the Singel to Central Station this evening.
Hermann Broch: Der Tod des Vergil (The Death of Virgil) (1945)
Hermann Broch's novel “The Death of Virgil” (Der Tod des Vergil) (1945) is set during the collapse of the Roman Republic and reflects on two themes that greatly preoccupied the author during his time of exile: the psychology of the masses and the crisis of art.The poet Virgil is returning from Athens to Brindisi.
Hermann Broch: Letter to Volkmar von Zühlsdorff (6 Mai 1942)
The light-hearted tone of this letter from Hermann Broch to Volkmar von Zühlsdorff reflects the author’s relief at the prospect of a stable income, at least for a while.In April 1942, Broch had won the American Academy of Arts and Letters award for the third version of his manuscript for the novel “Tod des Vergil” (The Death of Virgil).
Hermann Kesten: Letter to Annette Kolb (18 May 1940)
In mid-April 1940, Hermann Kesten planned to travel to the United States on a U.S.
Hermann Kesten: Letter to Eric Isenburger (1941)
During his detention in Les Milles Eric Isenburger had already contacted the Emergency Rescue Committee to apply for a visa for the United States, but for a long time nothing happened. Even after fleeing from the camp, there were months of waiting during which the Isenburgers hid in a boarding house in Nice.
Hermann Kesten: Letter to Ernst Toller (23 March 1933)
Hermann Kesten's letter to Ernst Toller dated 23 March 1933 was probably Kesten's first letter from exile. He had left Berlin two days earlier, on 21 March, with several suitcases for Paris.
Hermann Kesten: Letter to Klaus Mann (27 May 1939)
Exile turned the acquaintance between Hermann Kesten and Klaus Mann into a close friendship. Hermann Kesten was one of the first who, in May 1933, invited Klaus Mann to contribute to his magazine Die Sammlung.
Hermann Kesten: Letter to Walter Landauer (3 June 1938)
On 3 June 1938 Hermann Kesten wrote a dismayed letter to his friend and publishing colleague Walter Landauer about the death of Ödön von Horváth, who had been killed two days earlier on the Champs Elysées in Paris by a falling branch during a storm. One year previously Ödön von Horvath's novel Jugend ohne Gott had been published by Allert de Lange.
Hermann Landshoff: Max Ernst at Peggy Guggenheim’s townhouse, New York (1942)
At his first place of exile in Paris and later on in New York, the photographer Hermann Landshoff mainly earned his living taking photographs for large fashion magazines, however, after emigrating he nevertheless portrayed many important personalities from the art scene, among them numerous artists in exile. The artists’ portraits that Landshoff took in those years focused on the fates of European emigrants.
