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    Title

  • Portrait of Gustav Landauer dedicated to Fritz Mauthner

  • Physical Description

    1 photograph : sepia ; 20 x 13 cm

  • Date

    1916

  • Summary

    Autographed dedication on verso: "Dem Freunde Fritz Mauthner zum Geburtstag 22. November 1916 Gustav Landauer"

  • Depicted

    Landauer, Gustav, 1870-1919

  • Subject

    Portraits, Men; Authors; Philosophers; Politicians

  • Genre

    Photographs

  • Part Of

    Fritz Mauthner Collection, AR 3392

  • Accession Number

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Biographical/Historical Information

Born in Karlsruhe in 1870, Landauer was a philosopher, literary critic, Shakespeare scholar, and anarchist-socialist writer and politician. In November 1918, he became a member of the central council of the revolutionary government of Kurt Eisner in Munich. After Eisner's assassination, Landauer served briefly as Minister of Public Enlightenment in the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republic. He was murdered while imprisoned on May 2, 1919 during the suppression of the revolutionary government.

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Citation

Portrait of Gustav Landauer dedicated to Fritz Mauthner, Leo Baeck Institute, F 5390.