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Hannah Arendt

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Object Details

Artist

Fred Stein, 3 Jul 1909 - 22 Sep 1967

Sitter

Hannah Arendt, 14 Oct 1906 - 4 Dec 1975

Exhibition Label

Born Linden-Limmer, Hanover, Germany
Hannah Arendt came to the United States via France in 1941 as a refugee from Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich. Having earned a doctorate in philosophy at the University of Heidelberg, she spent the next several years working as a freelance journalist and research director for the Conference on Jewish Relations in New York City. By the late 1940s, Arendt had begun writing a book on the conditions that had fostered the dictatorships of Hitler in Germany and Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union. The result was The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951), which established Arendt as a leading political theorist and historian. Following the appearance of a collection of her essays, Between Past and Future, in 1961, an admirer declared her “one of the most brilliant . . . of living political philosophers.” In 2013, the award-winning German film Hannah Arendt fascinated audiences in the United States.
Nacida en Linden-Limmer, Hanover, Alemania
Hannah Arendt llegó a los Estados Unidos de Francia en 1941 como refugiada del Tercer Reich de Adolf Hitler. Con un doctorado en filosofía en la Universidad de Heidelberg, trabajó por años como reportera independiente y directora de investigación para la Conferencia sobre las Relaciones Judías en Nueva York. Hacia finales de los años 40, Arendt había comenzado a escribir un libro sobre las condiciones que promovieron la dictadura de Hitler en Alemania y de Joseph Stalin en la Unión Soviética. El resultado fue Los orígenes del totalitarismo (1951), que estableció a Arendt como una teórica e historiadora política líder. Su colección de ensayos, Entre el pasado y el futuro, de 1961 la posicionó “entre los más brillantes… de los filósofos políticos con vida”. En 2013, la galardonada película alemana Hannah Arendt fascinó al público en los Estados Unidos.

Credit Line

National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Peter Stein

Date

1944 (printed 1987)

Object number

NPG.88.200

Restrictions & Rights

Usage conditions apply

Copyright

© Estate of Fred Stein

Type

Photograph

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions

Image/Sheet: 35.1 × 27.8 cm (13 13/16 × 10 15/16")
Mat: 71.1 × 55.9 cm (28 × 22")

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National Portrait Gallery Collection

Location

Currently not on view

Data Source

National Portrait Gallery

Topic

Interior
Equipment\Smoking Implements\Cigarette
Equipment\Smoking Implements\Ashtray
Hannah Arendt: Female
Hannah Arendt: Arts and Culture\Literature\Writer
Hannah Arendt: Arts and Culture\Education and Scholarship\Educator\Professor\University
Hannah Arendt: Arts and Culture\Education and Scholarship\Scholar\Philosopher
Portrait

Metadata Usage

Usage conditions apply

Link to Original Record

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm4fe73ee63-07a0-44d0-813e-efc11234b818

Record ID

npg_NPG.88.200

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