THAMES & HUDSON - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Group Director for Sales and Business Development
Eva Neurath became chairman. Walter's son, Thomas, who with his sister Constance had joined the company in 1961, became managing director; Constance later served as art director for several decades. Both Thomas and Constance remain on the Board at Thames & Hudson, as do Thomas's daughters, Johanna and Susanna.
Job Titles:
- Head of International Sales
- International Sales Contacts
Job Titles:
- Senior Key Accounts Manager
Walter Neurath was born in Vienna in 1903. In 1938, he left his home city - where he ran an art gallery and published illustrated books - for London. He initially worked as production director of Adprint, a business established by fellow Viennese émigré Wolfgang Foges. Neurath and Foges went on to pioneer the concept of what is today known as book packaging (or co-edition publishing), in which book ideas are conceived, commissioned, produced and sold to publishers operating in different markets and in different languages in order to create large print-runs and thereby lower unit production costs. Neurath's concept was the first of many innovations that through Thames & Hudson he would introduce to the world of publishing.
Wishing to take co-edition book packaging further, and recognizing the need to amortize the high production costs of illustrated books, Neurath established his own publishing house, incorporating offices in London and New York in the autumn of 1949. Eva Neurath, who had arrived in London from Berlin in 1939, was co-founder.