Together, Lion and Marta hosted regular meetings at their house and hosted the who-is-who of the German exile community, but they also had many American and British friends.Īfter Lion's death in 1958, Marta dedicated her life to preserving her husband's legacy and the legacy of the German-speaking exiles in Southern California. She was a devoted gardener, athlete, but also an important consultant to her husband Lion as well as Bertolt Brecht. They bought Villa Aurora, a Spanish-style house on 520 Paseo Miramar, in 1943 which Marta quickly turned into a comfortable home.

In Los Angeles, Marta built a home for the couple yet again.

Together, the couple escaped Vichy France to Portugal in 1940 where they boarded ships to the United States. Marta was briefly interned in camp Gurs before she helped Lion escape from Les Milles internment camp. Together with her husband Lion, she first moved to Berlin Grunewald in the 1920s but had to leave Germany in 1933 for Sanary-sur-Mer due to the growing persecution of Jews. MARTA FEUCHTWANGER (née Löffler 21 January 1891 - 25 October 1987) married Lion Feuchtwanger in 1912. It also housed his valuable collection of rare books, which he acquired for their beauty, their bibliographic importance, and as resources for his historical research. His lavish home in Pacific Palisades, called Villa Aurora today, became a Mecca for European writers, artists, and musicians during the war years. With the income from his writings he was able to assist many other German-Jewish and anti-Fascist writers-in-exile. Unlike many of his fellow emigrants and escapees, Lion Feuchtwanger already had a large overseas audience for his novels in translation. Feuchtwanger escaped from Nazi Germany on the eve of World War II, living first in Southern France and ultimately fleeing Europe in 1940 to spend his final years in Los Angeles. Many of his works attempted to come to terms with the Jewish experience in different eras and settings. Known worldwide for his historical studies of Benjamin Franklin, the Spanish painter Goya, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and such subjects as the Salem witch hunt, the French Revolution and Rome during the first century. American, Sculptor, painter.LION FEUCHTWANGER was a famous German novelist who lived from 1884 to 1958. Lived in Paris, working in the studios of Bourdelle and Zadkine and exhibited at the Salon (1923). Sculptor 1876 Scotland 1958 Scotland 1912 - 1931 Born in Paisley, studied at the Paisley School of Design and at Glasgow School of Art. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland United Kingdom Spanish painter, sculptor, and printmaker, born 1857īritish botanist, botanical collector, artist and scientific illustrator Portraits, genre scenes, interiors, still-lifes Slovenia Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslaviaĭaughter of Jean-Martin Charcot's wife, half-sister of the explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot, married with Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau, the legislator (1854-1936)īorn in Lyons. Edits made within the list area will be removed on the next update! name This list is automatically generated from data in Wikidata and is periodically updated by Listeriabot.

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