Ernst Weiss

Ernst Weiss, born in 1882 in Brünn, Moravia in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, was a trained physician. His years as a ship’s doctor are apparent in much of the detail in Georg Letham. Weiss’ work emerges from an expressionist background but belongs with the modernist classics.

  • Georg Letham
    Georg Letham
    Georg Letham Ernst Weiss
    Archipelago Books
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