Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Historical note
Scope and Content
Access Terms
Descriptive Summary
Title: East German art collection,
Date (inclusive): 1946-1992
Collection number: M0772
Extent:
21 linear ft.
(ca. 1300 items)
Repository:
Stanford University. Libraries. Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Access Restrictions
None.
Publication Rights
Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights
reside with the creators of the documents or their heirs. To
obtain permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the
Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections.
Provenance
Purchased, 1995.
Preferred Citation:
East German art collection. M0772. Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Historical note
The collection was put together by Jurgen Holstein, a Berlin bookseller. He included different internal views of East German
art including the central establishment and allied artists, socialist aesthetics, collections devoted to approved artists,
unusual topics (postcards, science fiction), material culture, and artists active during the 1980s.
Scope and Content
Books, catalogs, posters, and ephemera documenting the history of East German art. The largest segments of the collection
are KUNSTLERKATALOGE (411 titles), catalogs of exhibits held in East Berlin (174 titles), and catalogs of exhibits held elsewhere
in the GDR (285 titles). The remainder of the collection is divided into thematic areas: Kunstgewerbe, Buchwesen und Gebrauchsgrafik,
Plakatliterature, Foto un Film, Kunsttheorie und Kunst politik, Architektur, Plastik und Bildhauer, and Allgemeines, each
with between 27 and 98 titles.
Access Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Art, Modern--East Germany--20th century.