`...the elegant joy with which she lived her life came to her so
naturally - in the delight she took in the highest forms of
culture, especially music, in her house in Italy surrounded even in
the hottest summer by its cool green lawn, in her always
beautifully styled appearance, but above all in producing at Thames
and Hudson books that attested to her great respect for high
culture - one might have imagined nothing had happened to her to
cause anything but total delight in the world' David Plante Eva
Neurath, co-founder of Thames & Hudson, wrote this memoir for
her granddaughters, and it is a private story of a remarkable
20th-century life. The youngest child of a principled and
avant-garde mother and a Jewish father, she was born in Berlin and
grew up there in the Twenties, in the world of Marlene Dietrich and
Leni Riefenstahl, when anything was possible. Her wide knowledge of
the fine arts was the result not of any formal education but of her
work for art dealers, at a time when great collections were
changing hands. Her mother for a time had a gallery for
contemporary artists, and through other relatives she knew the
world of music. But this was a world in the grip of traumatic
change. Pursued by the Gestapo, Eva, her second husband Wilhelm
Feuchtwang and their baby son Stephan left Berlin in 1938, first
for Rotterdam, then London. Wilhelm was interned in the Isle of
Man, and Eva was at her wits' end. Then came another change: she
was visited with a message from her husband by Walter Neurath, an
Austrian art historian and publisher who had come to England
earlier and also been interned, but was soon released to continue
his publishing of books for Adprint, where he had created the
`Britain in Pictures' series. Offered a job by Walter, Eva grasped
the opportunity to re-create herself in her own right as picture
researcher, layout designer and art director. In 1949 they founded
a new publishing house, Thames & Hudson, and married in 1953.
Her life with Walter moved in circles of art, archaeology and
history, among friends including Henry Moore, Harold Acton, John
Julius Norwich and Roy Strong. The memoir ends in 1981, but Eva's
work continued until 1999, the year she died, and the story is
filled out by her son, Stephan Feuchtwang. The book is illustrated
with photographs from Eva Neurath's family albums.
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