Foreman-Lewis, Elisabeth.

Jung Fu wird Kupferschmied [Third German Edition of “Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze, 1932”]. Leben und Abenteuer eines wackeren Chinesenjungen von Elisabeth Foreman-Lewis. Zeichnungen und Buchschmuck von Kurt Wiese.

Salzburg-Lepizig, Pustet, o.J. ca. 1940. 8°. 248 Seiten. Original Hardcover (without dustjacket). Minor signs of foing to the binding only. Interior in excellent condition.

Kurt Wiese (April 22, 1887 – May 27, 1974) was a German-born book illustrator, who wrote and illustrated 20 children’s books and illustrated another 300 for other authors.
Kurt Wiese was born on April 22, 1887, in Minden, Germany. He aspired to be an artist but was discouraged by his community. He had at least one sibling, Ella Wiese, later Ella Barnberg.
Wiese was sent to Hamburg to “learn about the export trade to China.” From 1909 to 1915, Wiese lived, worked, and traveled in China, selling merchandise as a young man. At the outbreak of World War I, he was captured by the Japanese, and turned over to the British. He spent five years as a prisoner, most of them in Australia, where his fascination with the animal life inspired him to start sketching again. After his release at the end of the war, Wiese returned briefly to Germany and then moved to Brazil, where he began illustrating.

In 1927, Wiese moved to the United States. His first critical success was with the illustrations for Felix Salten’s Bambi in 1928. From his farm in Kingwood Township, New Jersey, he worked with German master printmaker Theodore Cuno of Germantown, Pennsylvania, to create some of his lithographs.

In 1930, Wiese married Gertrude Hausen, a realtor, with whom he lived on a farm in Kingwood Township, New Jersey (or Frenchtown). Kurt Wiese died age 87 on May 27, 1974, in Idell, Kingwood Township near Flemington, New Jersey. (Wikipedia)

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Elizabeth Foreman Lewis (May 24, 1892 – August 7, 1958) was an American children’s writer. She received the Newbery Award and the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award.
Elizabeth Foreman was born in Baltimore, Maryland, May 24, 1892. She studied art at the Maryland Institute of Fine Arts from 1909 to 1910. Of that time, she has said,

“My sister and I grew up in a world of books, country life, horses, dogs, and a variety of other pets, a background threaded by colorful strands of wit, hearty laughter, singing, hospitality, and naturally in Maryland, good food. Our chief instruction, beside that of school and church, came from the proverbs in the home. Sometimes I think these brief, pungent expressions of man’s age-old wisdom have had more influence than anything else in shaping my life. When editors and secretaries weary of my endless re-writing, they do not guess that I am still at the mercy of ten words which accompanied every girlhood task: ‘If worth doing at all, it is worth doing well !’ “

She attended a secretarial school in Baltimore from 1916 to 1917, preparatory to travel to China for the Methodist Women’s Board. Later in 1917, she received religious instruction at the Bible Seminary in New York.

After her education, Foreman became a Methodist missionary and teacher in China, initially as the associate mission treasurer for the Women’s Foreign Missionary Society in Shanghai (1917–1918). During the next two years, she was a teacher in the schools of Nanjing, and a district supervisor of schools in Chongqing. In Nanjing, she taught at two schools – a girls boarding school and a boys academy. She met her husband, John Abraham Lewis, who was also a Methodist Missionary in the Upper Yangtze for many years. They got married in 1921. They had one son, John Fulton Lewis, who grew up to become a newspaper editor and author.

After several years, due to illness, she had to leave China. Once back in the United States, she used her Chinese experiences as inspiration for novels and short stories. Her first book, Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze, based on her time as a director of schools in Chungking (Chongqing), won the 1933 Newbery Award and the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1960. She died in Baltimore, Maryland. (Wikipedia)

Publications:

Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze, 1932
Ho-Ming, Girl of New China, 1934
China Quest, 1937
Portraits from a Chinese Scroll, 1938
Test Tubes and Dragon Scales, 1940, in collaboration with Dr. George C. Basil
When the Typhoon Blows, 1942
To beat a Tiger, One Needs a Brother’s Help, 1956

• Keywords: Children’s Books · Children’s Books Illustrator · Children’s Books Rare · Foreman-Lewis, Elizabeth · Kinderbuch · Wiese, Kurt (Children’s Book Illustrator)
• Language: Deutsch
• Inventory Number: 3924AB

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