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Von Sternberg

John Baxter

Print publication date: 2010

Print ISBN-13: 9780813126012

Published to Kentucky Scholarship Online: September 2011

DOI: 10.5810/kentucky/9780813126012.001.0001

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An Artist’s Life

An Artist’s Life

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(p.15) An Artist’s Life
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Von Sternberg
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John Baxter

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University Press of Kentucky
DOI:10.5810/kentucky/9780813126012.003.0004

Von Sternberg's life in Vienna ended in 1908, when Moses, who became a U.S. citizen in 1906, decided that the family should rejoin him in the United States. He had found steady work in the clothing business. His naturalization application lists his profession as “furrier” and the 1910 census as “lace worker.” Fiction did not figure in Von Sternberg's curriculum, which favored philosophy, history, and particularly art. His first discovery about cinema was his most important. Von Sternberg defined art as “the compression of infinite spiritual power into a confined space,” and his particular skill was bringing his subjects into “a dramatic encounter with light.”

Keywords:   Vienna, naturalization, furrier, fiction, philosophy

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