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Fotografie: Harry Graf Kessler, 1917 by Rudolf Dührkoop (1848–1918)

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Tagebücher 1918 - 1937 (1979) 30 exemplaren
Notizen über Mexiko (1998) 7 exemplaren
Erinnerungen eines Europäers (2019) 3 exemplaren
Millionaire Referee (1982) 3 exemplaren

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Officiële naam
Kessler, Harry Clément Ulrich
Geboortedatum
1868-05-23
Overlijdensdatum
1937-11-30
Geslacht
male
Nationaliteit
Germany
Geboorteplaats
Paris, France
Plaats van overlijden
Lyon, France
Beroepen
diplomat
writer
art patron

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This is another excellent diary of a German aesthete who knew everybody and did everything, covering his life from the end of World War l to his death in 1937. Unfortunately, the editing of this book is an abomination; not only are there errors of fact (Nicolai Nabokov was born in 1913?) but the footnotes are at the end of the book, forcing one to turn pages frequently rather than at the bottom as in the volume Journey to the Abyss.
Finally, vast tracts of French are interposed in the text because the count was multilingual. Unfortunately I don't read French so this was useless.… (meer)
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annbury | 1 andere bespreking | Jun 20, 2012 |
One of the most interesting commentaries ever on the beaux monde during the last decades of the nineteenth and first years of the twentieth century. Kessler was an artist and loved art, but that didn't stop him from killing Belgians at the start of WWl. He knew everybody and went everywhere.
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annbury | 1 andere bespreking | Jun 15, 2012 |
 
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Werken
33
Ook door
2
Leden
405
Populariteit
#60,014
Waardering
4.2
Besprekingen
5
ISBNs
44
Talen
5

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