Behind the glass : the Villa Tugendhat and its family /

Behind the glass : the Villa Tugendhat and its family /

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Author / Creator:Lambek, Michael, author.
Imprint:Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2022]
Description:x, 425 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language:English
Subject:
Tugendhat family -- History -- 20th century.
Tugendhat family -- Homes and haunts -- Czech Republic -- Brno -- History -- 20th century.
Tugendhat family.
Tugendhat House (Brno, Czech Republic) -- History -- 20th century.
Tugendhat House (Brno, Czech Republic)
Jewish families -- Czech Republic -- Brno -- History -- 20th century.
Jews -- Czech Republic -- Brno -- History -- 20th century.
Homes.
Jewish families.
Jews.
Brno (Czech Republic) -- Genealogy.
Czech Republic -- Brno.
Genealogy.
History.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12777364
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ISBN:9781487542191
1487542194
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Issued also in electronic format.
Summary:"The Villa Tugendhat, designed by Mies van der Rohe in 1928, is an icon of architectural modernism. Behind the Glass tells the true story of the large family connected to it, who rose to prominence through industrial textile manufacturing. The book traces the transformations in the life of the family, from their roots in a Jewish ghetto to part of the wealthy bourgeoisie in the Austro-Hungarian Empire to adaptation in interwar independent Czechoslovakia and flight in the face of Nazi invasion. Michael Lambek examines the generation born in the first decade of the twentieth century, especially Grete Tugendhat--Lambek's maternal grandmother--who commissioned, inhabited, championed, and relinquished the distinctive modern house. An exploration of life in and surrounding the Villa Tugendhat offers a factual portrait that runs counter to the fictional one portrayed in Simon Mawer's The Glass Room. The book also provides unpublished correspondence between Martin Heidegger and Ernst Tugendhat, Grete's son, as well as a description of the impact of a 2017 family reunion. Behind the Glass reflects on the meaning of a "family" and suggests that it is more than a nuclear household--a family reproduces itself over generations, a product of how it represents itself and is represented by others."--
Other form:Online version: Lambek, Michael. Behind the glass. Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2022 1487542224 9781487542221
Table of Contents:
  • List of Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Part I. House and Family
  • 1. People Who Live in Glass Houses
  • 2. Writing the Family
  • Part II. Family and Firm
  • 3. Before Löw-Beers
  • 4. Founding the Firm
  • 5. The Patriarch and His Siblings
  • 6. The Wiedmann Sisters
  • 7. The Double Cousins, before the War
  • 8. Departures and After
  • 9. The Patriarch's Son
  • Part III. Grete and Her World
  • 10. Grete and Her Family, in Former Times
  • 11. Grete and Her Family, the War Years
  • 12. Grete and Her Family, after the War
  • 13. The Philosophers: Helene Weiss, Käte Victorius, Ernst Tugendhat, Martin Heidegger
  • 14. Tugendhat, after Heidegger
  • Part IV. The Family Regrouped and Represented
  • 15. The Reunion
  • 16. Reconciliations in Brno
  • 17. Looking Back: Conundrums of Identity and Representation
  • Acknowledgments
  • Timeline
  • Notes
  • Index
Purchased by the Francis H. Dowley Endowed Library Fund bookplate

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