Eva Neurath Explained

Eva Urvasi Neurath (née Itzig; 22 August 1908 – 27 December 1999) was a British publisher, the co-founder in 1949, with her husband, Walter Neurath, of Thames & Hudson.

Biography

She was born in Berlin, the youngest of Rudolf Itzig, a Jewish clothier's five daughters. He died when she was eight.[1]

With the rise of the Nazis, she came to England with her second husband, Wilhelm Feuchtwang (son of David Feuchtwang, chief rabbi of Vienna),[2] and their son Stephan Feuchtwang.[3]

In 1949, she founded art publishing house Thames & Hudson and was one of the pioneers of the so-called integrated spread, in which text and images were integrated with each other in compositions. An expertise of hers was reproducing colours of art in high-quality prints, with one of her last efforts being the coverage of the 1985 Francis Bacon Tate Gallery. [4]

In 1953, she married Walter Neurath. He was her third husband,[5] and she was his third wife.[6] They are buried together in Highgate Cemetery (west side).

Notes and References

  1. Neurath [née Itzig], Eva Urvasi (1908–1999)]. 2004 . 10.1093/ref:odnb/73686 . 18 June 2016.
  2. Book: Peter Unwin. Newcomers' Lives: The Story of Immigrants as Told in Obituaries from The Times. 31 January 2013. A&C Black. 978-1-4411-5917-5. 149–150.
  3. News: Plante. David. Eva Neurath. 18 June 2016. The Guardian. 6 January 2000.
  4. Web site: Plante . David . 2000-01-06 . Eva Neurath . 2022-10-10 . the Guardian . en.
  5. Book: Unwin . Peter . Newcomers' Lives: The Story of Immigrants as Told in Obituaries from The Times . 2013 . . Eva Neurath.
  6. Book: W. Rubinstein. Michael A. Jolles. The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History. 27 January 2011. Palgrave Macmillan UK. 978-0-230-30466-6. 718.