Neue Galerie Event

Reading and Book Signing

Thursday, November 17 | 5 to 6 p.m.

Historian Tim Bonyhady an award-winning art historian, curator, and lawyer. His book, Good Living Street: Portrait of a Patron Family, Vienna 1900, tells the story of his family's experiences in Vienna in the early twentieth century. Bonyhady will read from his book and autograph copies for members.

Not since the publication of Carl Schorske’s Fin-De-Siècle Vienna has a book so brilliantly given us a close-up portrait of turn-of-the-century Vienna, as seen through the lives of an eminent family, the Gallias, among the city’s great patrons of the early twentieth century: their upper-class life; their rarefied collections of art and design; their religious life; and their daring flight from the Nazi Anschluss. Tim Bonyhady, great-grandson of the Gallias, tells the story of the family’s middle-class prosperity from the provinces of Central Europe where they grew up to their arrival in Vienna, following the emperor’s proclamation that Jews had freedom of movement and residence, and shows how for the next two decades, the Vienna that became theirs was at the center of art, music, and ideas in all of Europe.

About the author:

Tim Bonyhady is an award-winning art historian, curator, and environmental lawyer. He is the director of the Centre of Climate Law and Policy at the Australian National University. He lives in Canberra, Australia.

Advance praise for GOOD LIVING STREET:

“Bonyhady has delved deeply into his forebears’ concert books, travel logs, letters, and death certificates in an effort to reconstruct his family’s identity and, for his mother, to place ‘a value on her life that she did not.’ The result is a lucid, poignant generational tale of loss of material wealth and cultural identity that provides new perspective and insight into both Holocaust and immigration studies.” —Booklist

Political, economic and art history effectively combine with memoir to create a compelling story. —Kirkus Reviews

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