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  • Chapter 2 - From Vienna to The Hague

  • Christopher Burke, University of Reading, Adam Tamas Tuboly, HUN-REN Research Centre for the Humanities
  • Book:
    Otto Neurath in Britain
    Published online:
    09 January 2025
    Print publication:
    23 January 2025, pp 32-64

  • Summary

    Neurath’s first port of exile after the fascist takeover in Austria was the Netherlands. With the aid of existing connections there, he set up the International Foundation for Visual Education in The Hague, providing an official haven for the work of the Social and Economic Museum. It also acted as a base for the International Institute for the Unity of Science, through which Neurath organized its congresses during the 1930s. Neurath’s Dutch period was marked by increasing contacts with England and the USA: he wrote books in C. K. Ogden’s Basic English and for New York publisher Knopf; he also became editor-in-chief of the International Encyclopedia of Unified Science. On several visits to the USA, he secured high-profile contracts for Isotype work, while also exploring the possibility of a foothold in Britain.