Reciept
Category
Ephemera
Date
16 Jan 1973
Materials
Paper
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Mr Straw's House, Nottinghamshire
NT 3131300.2
Summary
White paper receipt, taken from a carbon copy pad, the typed front can be seen through the back of the paper. The receipt is for the book in which it is kept 'Yorkshire . York & the East Riding' by Nikolaus Pevsner (record 3131300). ' No 11176 r. William Straw, 16th January, 73 7 Blyth Grove, Worksop, Notts. 1 Pevsner Yorkshire: York & the East Riding 2. 10 Plus Post & Packing 0. 12 --------- £ 2. 22.'. Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner CBE FBA (30 January 1902 – 18 August 1983), was a German, later British scholar of history of art and, especially, of history of architecture. He is best known for his 46-volume series of county-by-county guides, The Buildings of England (1951–74), often simply referred to by his surname. The son of a Russian-Jewish fur haulier, Nikolaus Pevsner was born in Leipzig, Saxony. He attended the Thomas School and went on to study art history at the Universities of Leipzig, Munich, Berlin, and Frankfurt/Main, completing a PhD in 1924 on the baroque merchant houses of Leipzig. In 1923, he married Carola ("Lola") Kurlbaum, the daughter of distinguished Leipzig lawyer Alfred Kurlbaum, one year earlier than they had planned after she had become pregnant. He worked as an assistant keeper at the Dresden Gallery (1924–28). During this period he became interested in establishing the supremacy of German modernist architecture after becoming aware of Le Corbusier's Pavillon de l'Esprit Nouveau at the Paris Exhibition of 1925. In 1928 he contributed the volume on Italian baroque painting to the Handbuch der Kunstwissenschaft, a multi-volume series providing an overview of the history of European art. He taught at the University of Göttingen (1929–33), offering a specialist course on English art and architecture.