Eva Neurath

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.^[1]

Biography

 

Grave of Walter and Eva Neurath in Highgate Cemetery (west side)

She was born in Berlin, the youngest of Rudolf Itzig, a Jewish clothier's five daughters. He died when she was eight.^[2]

With the rise of the Nazis, she came to England with her second husband, Wilhelm Feuchtwang (son of David Feuchtwang, chief rabbi of Vienna),^[3] and their son Stephan Feuchtwang.^[1]

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).

References

1. Plante, David (6 January 2000). "Eva Neurath". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 June 2016.
2. "Neurath [née Itzig], Eva Urvasi (1908–1999)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/73686. Retrieved 18 June 2016. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
3. Peter Unwin (31 January 2013). Newcomers' Lives: The Story of Immigrants as Told in Obituaries from The Times. A&C Black. pp. 149–150. ISBN 978-1-4411-5917-5.
4. Plante, David (6 January 2000). "Eva Neurath". the Guardian. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
5. Unwin, Peter (2013). "Eva Neurath". Newcomers' Lives: The Story of Immigrants as Told in Obituaries from The Times. A & C Black.
6. W. Rubinstein; Michael A. Jolles (27 January 2011). The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History. Palgrave Macmillan UK. p. 718. ISBN 978-0-230-30466-6.