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Levi Strauss (1829-1902)
Levi Strauss was one of the best-known beneficiaries of California's gold rush economic boom. He was born in Bavaria and came to San Francisco in 1850, one of the thousands hoping to stike it rich.[...] |
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Karl Baedeker
The son of a book printer, Baedeker was born in Essen, then in the Kingdom of Prussia, and started his publishing company in 1827 in Koblenz. Baedeker's company in 1832 bought another Koblenz publisher (Friedrich Röhling) which had in 1828 published a handbook for travellers by J. A. Klein, under the title Rheinreise von Mainz bis Köln (travelling the Rhine from Mainz to Cologne).[...] |
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Michael Ballhaus (1935- )
You’ve seen his work many times, but probably didn’t know it. Michael Ballhaus was the director of photography for many Hollywood films, including Working Girl (1988), Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992), Air Force One (1997), The Color of Money (1986), and The Departed (2006, his last Hollywood film). [...] |
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Albert Ballin (1857-1918)
Albert Ballin (15 August 1857 – 9 November 1918) was a German businessman. He was born into a modest Jewish family of Hamburg with origins in Denmark.[...] |
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Peter Behrens
Peter Behrens is one of the most influential 20th-century German designers. At the beginning of the century, he brought forth outstanding works in painting, architecture, graphic design and industrial design, which exerted a paramount influence in all these various fields, opening up uncharted territory for the generations to come.[...] |
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