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NORMAN NEUERBURG PAPERS REGARDING GETTY VILLA DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION, 1966-1987, bulk 1970-1975
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Title: Norman Neuerburg papers regarding Getty Villa design and construction
Date (inclusive): 1966-1987
Date (bulk): 1970-1975
Collection number: 870517
Creator:
Neuerburg, Norman
Extent:
ca. 11 linear ft.,
(19 boxes, 22 flat file folders, 3 rolls)
Repository:
Getty Research Institute
Research Library
Special Collections and Visual Resources
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, CA 90040-1688
Abstract: The papers of art history professor Norman Neuerburg (1966-1987) relate to his role as the historical consultant in the design
and construction of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, California, also known as the Getty Villa. Files contain correspondence,
lectures, manuscripts, notes, construction reports, sketches and drawings, architectural schema, press clippings, photographs,
and slides. The bulk of the archive dates to 1970-1975.
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Norman Neuerburg papers regarding Getty Villa design and construction, 1966-1987, bulk 1970-1975, Getty Research Institute,
Research Library, Accession no. 870517.
Acquired in 1987.
This collection was initially processed circa 1988, then reprocessed and arranged by Shannon K. Supple, who also wrote the
finding aid, in September through December 2004. The arrangement of Box 7 maintains Dr. Neuerburg's original organization
scheme, but the original order of the remainder of the material is unknown.
The remainder of Norman Neuerburg's personal papers, including his book, art, and 35 millimeter film collections, are located
at the University of California, Berkeley libraries.
Other materials relating to the design and construction of the J. Paul Getty Museum are held by the Institutional Archives
of the J. Paul Getty Trust.
Norman Neuerburg, an art and architecture historian, artist, and university professor, was born in 1926 in Universal City,
California. After serving in the army in Italy during World War II, Dr. Neuerburg received his B.A. in Greek from the University
of California, Los Angeles, in 1953 and his M.A. and Ph.D. in art history from New York University's Institute of Fine Arts,
in 1955 and 1960, respectively. From 1955 to 1957, he was a Fellow at the American Academy in Rome.
Dr. Neuerburg taught art history at many major research institutions, including the University of California, Los Angeles,
University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Riverside, University of Southern California, Indiana University,
the California Institute of the Arts, and California State University, Dominguez Hills. He also acted as an historical consultant
to the J. Paul Getty Museum, California's historic missions, El Pueblo de Los Angeles, and the Santa Barbara Trust for Historical
Preservation, as well as curator of Spanish colonial art at the Southwest Museum. Dr. Neuerburg died of complications from
a stroke in 1997 in his native Los Angeles.
Scope and Content of Collection
The Norman Neuerburg papers regarding the design and construction of the J. Paul Getty Museum contain materials gathered by
the university art history professor in his capacity as historical consultant to the design of the J. Paul Getty Museum, also
known as the Getty Villa. The archive contains correspondence, lecture notes and manuscripts, construction reports and updates,
numerous drawings and design schemes for the Villa, notes on design schemes, press clippings, photographs, slides, and negatives.
The collection begins with the early stages of designing and planning, flows into the period of the Villa's construction,
and extends further to the critical and public response and other issues that arose well after the museum opened to the public.
Arrangement
The papers are arranged in six series:
Series I. Correspondence, 1970-1984 (bulk 1970-1975)
Series II. Lectures and manuscripts, 1970, 1973-1976, 1981, 1983 (bulk 1973-1975)
Series III. Construction reports, 1969-1973
Series IV. Drawings and designs, 1966-1976, 1979-1980 (bulk 1971-1973)
Series V. Press clippings, 1970-1987 (bulk 1974-1975)
Series VI. Photographs, slides, negatives, 1971-1974
Getty, J. Paul (Jean Paul), 1892-1976
J. Paul Getty Museum
Villa of the Papyri (Herulaneum)
Art museums—Design and construction.
Exhibitions—Design
Gardens—Design—California—Malibu
Museum buildings—California—Malibu—Design and construction
Malibu (Calif.)—Buildings, structures, etc.
Architectural drawings
Black-and-white photographs
Blueline prints
Brownline prints
Color photographs
Color slides
Design drawings
Photographs,
Original
Working drawings
Bramlett, Norris
Fredericksen, Burton B.
Garrett, Stephen
Genter, Ed
Getty, J. Paul (Jean Paul), 1892-1976
Gnoli, Raniero
Grazioli Medici, Priscilla
Langdon, Robert
Neuerburg, Norman
Weber, Karl Jakob, 1712-1764
Wemple, Emmett
Wilson, Gillian
Dinwiddie Construction Company
Langdon and Wilson Architects