Christopher Isherwood; W.H. Auden
1 portrait by Keystone Press Agency Ltd
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Christopher Isherwood; W.H. Auden
by Keystone Press Agency Ltd
bromide press print, 1938
7 in. x 5 in. (178 mm x 128 mm) image size
Purchased, 2013
Photographs Collection
NPG x137621
Sittersback to top
- Wystan Hugh ('W.H.') Auden (1907-1973), Poet. Sitter in 44 portraits.
- Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood (1904-1986), Novelist. Sitter in 29 portraits.
Artistback to top
- Keystone Press Agency Ltd, Photographers. Artist or producer associated with 190 portraits.
Linked publicationsback to top
- Tinker, Christopher, Speak its Name! - Quotations by and about Gay Men and Women, 2016, p. 1
Subjects & Themesback to top
Events of 1938back to top
Current affairs
Britain pursues its policy of appeasement. At the Munich Agreement, Britain, France and Italy agreed to allow Hitler to seize the Sudetenland area of Czechoslovakia. The agreement was seen at the time as a triumph for peace, with Neville Chamberlain returning home brandishing the paper agreement and saying 'peace for our time.' Within six months Germany had occupied the rest of Czechoslovakia.Art and science
Graham Greene publishes Brighton Rock. The novel follows the descent of Pinky, a teenage gang leader in Brighton's criminal underworld. The book examines the criminal mind and explores the themes of morality and sin - recurrent concerns for the Roman Catholic Author.Glasgow hosts the Empire Exhibition; an £11 million celebration of the British Empire visited by 13 million people.
International
In its pursuit of 'Lebensraum' (living space), Germany annexes Austria and parts of Czechoslovakia with little opposition from the League of Nations. At home, the Nazis continued their escalating persecution of the Jews with 'Kristallnacht' (the Night of Broken Glass), attacking Jewish homes, shops, businesses and synagogues, and taking Jewish men to concentration camps.Comments back to top
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