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Hugo Zehder

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 10, 2022
Entity authorityQ104849223 ↗
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Hugo Zehder was a German artist who became a prominent publisher of art journals in Dresden following the First World War. He launched the Neue Blätter für Kunst und Dichtung (The New Journal for Art and Literature) in May 1918. Zehder was an early member of the Dresdner Sezession and placed the journal at its service.

His play Der zweite Schuß was made into a film, The Second Shot in 1943.

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This entry incorporates text from “Hugo Zehder” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.