Wolfgang Born (1893-1949), half-brother of the physicist and Nobel laureate Max Born, worked as an artist, art historian, and art critic in Munich and Vienna before emigrating to America. His correspondence with Thomas Mann revolves around a previously unknown early series of watercolors (1916) that served as a precursor to the lithograph portfolio "Death in Venice" (1921), to which Thomas Mann contributed a letter, and continues in their respective exiles between Vienna, Zurich, and America. The highlight is Born's assertion in 1936 that Germany is where Thomas Mann is. Thomas Mann's famous saying "Where I am, is Germany," which emphasizes his arrival in America in 1938, thus serves as a call to resistance against the Nazi regime in Germany, coming from a German-Jewish cultural tradition. After a parallel study of art at the Munich Academy and art history.