INVENTORY OF THE ALBERT RENGER-PATZSCH PAPERS, 1890-1980
(bulk 1924-1966)
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INVENTORY OF THE ALBERT RENGER-PATZSCH PAPERS, 1890-1980
(bulk 1924-1966)
Accession no. 861187
Finding aid prepared by Isabella Zuralski
Getty Research Institute
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Descriptive Summary
Title: Albert Renger-Patzsch papers
Date (inclusive): 1890-1980
Date (bulk): 1924-1966
Collection number: 861187
Creator:
Renger-Patzsch,
Albert
Extent:
ca. 12 linear ft.
(23
boxes, 1 flat file folder)
Repository:
Getty Research Institute
Research Library
Special Collections and Visual Resources
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, CA 90049-1688
Abstract: German photographer associated with the art
movement Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity). The archive documents
Renger-Patzsch's professional life, especially his work on book projects and
commissions for industrial firms. It also includes technical details of his
photographic workshop, and provides insight into his artistic views on
photography as an independent art form, and on the aesthetic trends in
photography in economically prosperous postwar Germany.
Language: Collection material in
German
Administrative Information
Access
Open for use by qualified researchers.
Publication Rights
Preferred Citation
Albert Renger-Patzsch papers, 1924-1966, Accession no. 861187, Getty
Research Institute, Research Library.
Acquisition Information
Acquired by the repository in 1986.
Processing History
Isabella Zuralski processed the collection and wrote the finding
aid.
Alternate Form Available
Pre-war press clippings filed within Series V.A. are available on
microfiche.
Related Material
Albert Renger-Patzsch correspondence and poem,
1918-1948
, Accession no. 2006.M.25.
Correspondence between Albert and Agnes Renger-Patzsch and Hugo
Hertwig, and letters from Albert Renger-Patzsch to Martha Buttmann and her son
Walter.
Biographical Historial Note
The German photographer Albert Renger-Patzsch (1897 -1966) was born in
Würzburg, Bavaria, and died in Wamel near Soest, Westphalia. Son of amateur
photographer Robert Renger-Patzsch, he learned the techniques of photography
early. Following primary education in Sondeshausen in Thuringia, Albert
Renger-Patzsch attended the renowned Kreuzgymnasium in Dresden. After service
in the German Army between 1916 and 1918, he studied chemistry at the
Technische Hochschule in Dresden from 1919 to 1921.
His professional career as a photographer began in the early 1920s at
the Folkwang Verlag in Essen, and at the Folkwang and Auriga Archiv in Hagen,
where he was the head of photographic services. In 1923, he served as head of a
photographic service agency in Berlin. In that same year, he married Agnes von
Braunschweig and moved briefly to Kronstadt (Brasov) in Romania. His daughter
Sabine was born in 1924, his son Ernst Normann in 1926. In 1924 Renger-Patzsch
returned briefly to Darmstadt to work at the Auriga Verlag, the successor of
the Folkwang Verlag. In 1925 he left the Auriga Verlag to become a freelance
photographer, joined the Deutscher Werkbund, and moved with his family to Bad
Harzburg, near Braunschweig. His first exhibition was mounted in his studio.
Between 1924 and 1937, Renger-Patzsch collaborated on several book
projects, including the series
Die Welt der Pflanze, conceived by Ernst Fuhrmann (volumes
Crassula and
Orchideen, both 1924). Other project partners included
Rudolf Schwarz (
Wegweisung der Technik, 1928), Carl Georg Heise (
Lübeck, 1928), and the Auriga Verlag (
Das Chorgestühl von Kappenberg, 1925). His influential
book
Die Welt ist schön appeared in 1928, published by Kurt
Wolff Verlag in Munich; the Einhorn Verlag edition followed in the same year.
In 1927, Carl Georg Heise organized an exhibition of Renger-Patzsch's
photographic work at the Behnhaus in Lübeck. In 1928, Renger-Patzsch
participated in the exhibition
Kunst und Technik at the Museum Folkwang in Essen; he also
held two individual exhibitions, one at the Kunstgewerbemuseum in Zurich and
another at the Grafisches Kabinett in Munich.
In 1929 Renger-Patzsch moved with his family to Essen, where he had a
studio and office at the Museum Folkwang. During this time he worked
intensively with the industrial architect Fritz Schupp, and made architectural
photographs for the architect and director of the Kunstgewerbeschule Aachen,
Rudolf Schwarz. The first retrospective exhibition of his work took place in
1931 at the Museum Folkwang in Essen. His industrial photographs, published in
the book
Eisen und Stahl (1931), won a silver medal at the Milan
Triennale in 1933. During 1933, Renger-Patzsch lectured at the Folkwang School
in Essen, and took over the chair of photography from Max Burchartz.
Between 1938 and 1940, Renger-Patzsch received his first commissions
from the chemical concern C. H. Boehringer Sohn in Ingelheim:
Hospitalbauten in Europa aus zehn Jahrhunderten (first
issued in 1967), a book about hospital buildings in Europe with text by
Dankwart Leistikow, and
Historische Apotheken Deutschlands (year of issue
unknown), a book about historical pharmacies. During the years 1941 to 1944,
Renger-Patzsch worked on the book projects
Paderborn (first issued in 1949) and
Land am Oberrhein (appearing in 1944 in small edition). In
1943, he was commissioned by the Todt Organization to take pictures of the
Western defences of the German forces in Normandy and Brittany. A large part of
Renger-Patzsch's archive in the Museum Folkwang was destroyed during an air
raid on Essen in 1944. Shortly afterwards Renger-Patzsch moved with his family
to Wamel on the Möhnesee, near Soest, where he lived for the remainder of his
life.
Beständinge Welt, a small volume with landscape
photographs with text by Helene Henze, initiated his post-war work in 1947. The
year 1949 marked the start of long-term commission work for the firm Schubert
& Salzer, a spinning machine manufacturer in Ingolstadt, as well as the
continuation of work begun in 1932 for the glass manufacturer Jenaer Glaswerk
Schott & Gen., and the firm C. H. Boehringer Sohn in Ingelheim. He also
undertook commissions for the architects Fritz Schupp in Essen and Hans
Schwippert in Düsseldorf. The Siepman Werke in Belecke commissioned
Renger-Patzsch to produce two publications:
Bilder aus der Landschaft zwischen Ruhr und Möhne (1957)
and
Bauten zwischen Ruhr und Möhne (1959). During the 1950s
and 1960s Renger-Patzsch collaborated with the publisher Mocker & Jahn in
Soest on the book projects
Schloss Cappenberg (1953) and
Soest (1963); he received commissions from numerous
industrial companies in Germany. He also traveled throughout Europe, with
several trips to Italy for the book project
Hohenstaufenburgen in Süditalien (1961). This book, with
text by Hanno Hahn, was commissioned by the firm C. H. Boehringer Sohn, which
also commissioned the books
Bäume (1962) and
Gestein (1966), both with text by Ernst Jünger. A
professional relationship developed between Renger-Patzsch and the German
dendrologist Wolfgang Haber, who accompanied Renger-Patzsch on his trips to
Italy and wrote texts for
Im Wald (1965) and
Bäume.
During the postwar years Renger-Patsch lectured on photography
throughout Germany. His photographic work was recognized and awarded. In 1957,
the Gesellschaft Deutscher Lichtbildner honored Renger-Patzsch with the David
Octavius Hill Medal. In 1960, he received the prestigious culture prize of the
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie. In 1961, he received a gold medal from
the Photographische Gesellschaft Wien for his life's work. In 1963, the
television station Westdeutscher Rundfunk in Cologne broadcast the documentary
Portrait of the Photographer Albert Renger-Patzsch. In
1965, the Minister of Culture awarded to Renger-Patzsch the North
Rhine-Westphalia state prize for artistic achievement. Also in 1965, the German
photographer Lotte Jacobi showed Renger-Patzsch's photographs in her gallery in
Deering, New Hampshire, and the Art Institute of Chicago included his works in
its annual photography exhibition.
Albert Renger-Patzsch died on September 27, 1966 in Wamel. In December
of that year, a memorial exhibition was mounted in the Ruhrland- und
Heimatmuseum in Essen. In 1970 and 1971, commemorative exhibitions were held in
Bremen and Hamburg.
Scope and Content of Collection
The archive documents Albert Renger-Patzsch's professional life and
provides detailed information about his business-related activities, especially
his work on book projects and private commissions for industrial firms. It also
allows insight into his artistic views on photography and the technical details
of his photographic workshop. A small portion of the archive consists of
personal documents and family correspondence. Almost all items are in German;
most are typescripts, or carbon copies of typescripts, especially letters by
Albert Renger-Patzsch. Relatively few are in old German handwriting.
The main portion of the archive consists of post-war correspondence
between Renger-Patzsch and numerous institutions, industrial firms, and
individual correspondents. A relatively small part of the correspondence dates
from the time before the war. Set apart is the predominantly business-related
correspondence of Renger-Patzsch's widow Agnes and his son Ernst, and the
personal correspondence of Albert Renger-Patzsch, mainly letters from his
mother Frieda and other relatives. Two separate groups of correspondence are
organized by topic.
Another significant portion of the archive presents ca. 30 drafts of
mostly unpublished lectures and articles about photography by Albert
Renger-Patzsch.
A large number of ephemeral publications, newspaper clippings and
offprints related to Albert Renger-Patzsch provides information about the scope
and reception of his photographic work before and after the war, his book
projects, exhibitions, and other professional activities. Also included are a
small number of personal documents related to Albert Renger-Patzsch and his
family, a few portrait photographs taken by his daughter Sabine, poems by
unknown authors, and business-related bills and receipts.
The archive includes several drafts of book texts by other authors:
both texts about Renger-Patzsch and texts written to accompany Renger-Patzsch's
books of photographs. Also in the archive are drafts of texts unrelated to
Albert Renger-Patzsch, including 9 unpublished texts by the German ecologist
Hugo Hertwig.
Arrangement
Unidentified items are filed at the end of each series. Oversize
items from various series are filed in Box 24*.
Indexing Terms
Subjects: personal names
Arapoff, Cyril
Barth, Emil,
1890-1958
Brandt, Bill
Erfurth, Hugo,
1874-1948
Fohn, Emanuel,
1881-1966
Freckmann, Karl, b.
1890
Friedmann, Hermann,
1873-1957
Fuhrmann, Ernst,
1886-1956
Fürst, Viktor,
1919-
Gernsheim, Helmut,
1913-
Gosebruch,
Ernst
Greischel,
Walther
Gruber, L.
Fritz
Gurlitt, Hildebrand, b.
1895
Hallensleben,
Ruth
Heise, Carl Georg,
1890-
Hertwig, Hugo
Hesse, Hermann,
1877-1962
Hesse, Ninon
Hill, David Octavius,
1802-1870
Holzmeister,
Gunda
Jacobi, Lotte,
1896-
Jancke, Rudolf
Jünger, Ernst,
1895-
Kerff, Gerhard,
1908-
Klipstein, Editha,
1880-1953
Kozma, Lajos,
1884-1950
Krauss, Friedrich
Emil
Kükelhaus,
Hugo
Mahlau, Alfred,
1894-1967
Mardersteig, Giovanni,
1892-1977
Masclet, Daniel,
1892-1969
Moegle, Willi
Moholy-Nagy, László,
1895-1946
Oliveira, Jaap d',
1908-1978
Padberg,
Magdalena
Portman, Adolf,
1897-
Renger-Patzsch,
Albert
Sander, August
Schneider, Karl,
1892-1945
Schoy, Frida
Schwarz, Rudolf,
1897-1961
Schwippert, Hans,
1899-1973
Smith, Ronald
Gregor
Steffen,
Dieter
Steinert, Otto,
1915-
Stenger, Erich,
1878-
Treskow, Elisabeth,
1898-
Tümpel,
Wolfgang
Virl, Hermann,
1903-1958
Vogelsang,
Marianne
Walther, Pan,
1921-
Weinert,
August
Wigman, Mary,
1886-1973
Woytinsky, Wladimir S.,
1885-1960
Zglinicki, Friedrich
Pruss von, b. 1895
Subjects: corporate bodies
C. H. Boehringer
Sohn
Deutsche Gesellschaft für
Photographie
Deutsche Spiegelglas
A.G.
Deutscher
Spinnereimaschinenbau Ingolstadt
Gesellschaft Deutscher
Lichtbildner
Jenaer Glaswerk Schott
& Gen.
Museum Folkwang
Essen
Verlag Herder
Genres and Forms of Material
Lectures
Letters
(correspondence)
Photographic
prints
Photographs,
Original
Contributors: personal names
Arapoff, Cyril
Barth, Emil,
1890-1958
Bartning, Otto,
1883-1959
Behrens, Peter,
1868-1940
Boje, Walter
Botzenhart, Prof. Dr.
Bourdeau, Robert,
1931-
Brandt, Bill
Ehmke, Rainer
Erfurth, Hugo,
1874-1948
Freckmann, Karl, b.
1890
Fuhrmann, Ernst,
1886-1956
Fürst, Viktor,
1919-
Gernsheim, Helmut,
1913-
Goerttler, Kurt,
1898-
Goldberg, Rube,
1883-1970
Gosebruch,
Ernst
Greischel,
Walther
Gropius, Walter,
1883-1969
Gross, Else R.
Gruber, L.
Fritz
Gundermann,
Leo
Gurlitt, Hildebrand, b.
1895
Haber,
Wolfgang
Hartlaub, Gustav
Friedrich, 1884-1963
Heise, Carl Georg,
1890-
Helfferich,
Daan
Henze, Helene
Hertwig, Hugo
Heyer, Gustav Richard,
1890-
Holzmeister,
Gunda
Hoppé, E. O. (Emil Otto),
1878-1972
Huch, Ricarda Octavia,
1864-1947
Jabobi, Lotte,
1896-
Jaenisch, Hans,
1907-1989
Jancke, Rudolf
Johannsen,
Johann
Jünger, Ernst,
1895-
Kempe, Fritz
Kerff, Gerhard,
1908-
Klingender, F. D.
(Francis Donald)
Klipstein, Editha,
1880-1953
Kösters, Bernd
Kotthoff,
August
Kozma, Lajos,
1884-1950
Krauss, Friedrich
Emil
Kreusch, Felix
Kreutter,
Wolfgang
Lichnowsky, Mechtilde,
1879-1958
Lissitzky, El,
1890-1941
Mahlau, Alfred,
1894-1967
Mann, Thomas,
1875-1955
Marcks,
Gerhard
Mardersteig, Giovanni,
1892-1977
Masclet, Daniel,
1892-1969
Mattaei, Leni
Meyer, Peter,
1894-1984
Moholy-Nagy, László,
1895-1946
Molzahn, Johannes,
1892-1965
Oliveira, Jaap d',
1908-1978
Padberg,
Magdalena
Pécsi, Józef,
1889-1956
Pieper, Paul,
1912-
Redslob, Edwin,
1884-
Renger-Patzsch,
Albert
Richter, Max,
1900-
Riewerts, Theodor,
1907-1944
Roh, Franz,
1890-1965
Rothert,
Liebetraut
Russell, Peter
Schaeffer-Heyrothsberge,
Paul
Scheven, Ilsemarie
von
Schlensker, Ernst,
1908-
Schmoll gen. Eisenwerth,
J. Adolf, 1915-
Schneider, P. F.
Schneider-Esleben, Paul
Schöppe,
Wilhelm
Schott, Erich
Schumacher, Fritz,
1869-1947
Schupp, F. (Fritz),
1896-1974
Schütz-Wolff, Johanna,
1896-
Schwarz, Heinrich,
1894-1974
Schwarz, Rudolf,
1897-1961
Schwippert, Hans,
1899-1973
Smith, Käthe
Steffann, Emil,
1899-
Steffen,
Dieter
Steichen, Edward,
1879-1973
Steinert, Otto,
1915-
Sternberger, Dolf,
1907-
Strelow, Liselotte,
1908-1981
Thorn Prikker, Johan,
1868-1932
Toller, Ernst,
1893-1939.
Trump, Georg,
1896-
Tümpel,
Wolfgang
Virl, Hermann,
1903-1958
Vogelsang,
Marianne
Völckers, Otto, b.
1888
Wackernagel, Martin,
1881-
Wahl, Victor
Walker, Audrey
Wapnewski,
Peter
Weinert,
August
Wackernagel, Martin,
1881-
Wigman, Mary,
1886-1973
Wolf, Gustav
Woytinsky, Wladimir S.,
1885-1960
Wulf, Friedrich,
1908-
Wunder, Franz
Zglinicki, Friedrich
Pruss von, 1895-
Contributors: corporate bodies
C. H. Boehringer
Sohn
Deutsche Bibliothek
(Frankfurt am Main, Germany) Sammlung Buchkunst
Deutsche
Buch-Gemeinschaft
Deutsche Gesellschaft für
Photographie
Deutsche Spiegelglas
A.G.
Deutscher
Kunstverlag
Deutscher
Spinnereimaschinenbau Ingolstadt
Deutscher Werkbund
Berlin
Dr. Karl Thomae
GmbH
Essener
Steinkohlenbergwerke
Fagus-Werk (Alfeld, Lower
Saxony, Germany)
Focal Press
Gesellschaft Deutscher
Lichtbildner
Hans Peters
Verlag
Jenaer Glaswerk Schott
& Gen.
Krupp Stahl AG. Werk
(Rheinhausen, Duisburg, Germany)
Museum Folkwang
Essen
Museum für Photographie
(Dresden, Germany)
Obpacher Kunstverlag
Photo ciné club du Val de
Bièvre
Photographische
Gesellschaft in Wien
Presswerk AG
Riedel & Co.
(Bielefeld, Germany)
Staatliche Kunstakademie
Düsseldorf
Sydslesvigs danske
kunstforening
Werkstätten J.
Dickerhoff
Titles
Foto Prisma
Grubenlampe
International Photo-and Cine
Exhibition
Photoblätter
Photo-Magazin (Munich,
Germany)
Photography Year Book
Popular Photography (Milan,
Italy)
Verbindungsstelle
Landwirtschaft-Industrie (Essen, Germany)
Westdeutsche Allgemeine
Zeitung
Westfalenspiegel
Administrative Information
Bibliography
List of books by Albert Renger-Patzsch, and other books
illustrated with his photographs, discussed or mentioned in the archive. Arranged chronologically.
Fuhrmann, Ernst.
Reich der Inka, in: Kulturen der Erde. Bilderwerke.
Hagen : Folkwang-Verlag, 1922.
Fuhrmann, Ernst.
Peru II, in: Kulturen der Erde. Bilderwerke. Hagen
: Folkwang-Verlag, 1922.
Renger-Patzsch, Albert.
Das Chorgestühl von Kappenberg. Berlin :
Auriga-Verlag, 1925.
Renger-Patzsch, Albert.
Die Halligen. Berlin : Albertus, 1927.
Renger-Patzsch, Albert.
Lübeck. Berlin : E. Wasmuth, 1928.
Renger-Patzsch, Albert.
Die Welt ist schön. München : K. Wolff, 1928.
Renger-Patzsch, Albert.
Die Welt ist schön. München : Einhorn, 1928.
Schwarz, Rudolf.
Wegweisung der Technik. Potsdam : Müller &
Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1928-
Günther, Hanns.
Technische Schönheit. Zürich : Orell Füssli, 1929.
Koelsch, Adolf.
Hände und was sie sagen. Zürich : Orell Füssli,
1929.
Renger-Patzsch, Albert.
Hamburg. Hamburg : Gebrüder Enoch, 1930.
Renger-Patzsch, Albert.
Norddeutsche Backsteindome. Berlin : Deutscher
Kunstverlag, 1930.
Jenaer Glaswerk Schott & Gen.
Jenaer Glas für Laboratorien. Jena : Jenaer
Glaswerk Schott & Gen., 1937.
Jenaer Glaswerk Schott & Gen.
Jena laboratory glassware. Jena : Jenaer Glaswerk
Schott & Gen., 1937.
Fuhrmann, Ernst.
Das Wunder der Pflanze. Starnberg am See : Oeser,
1938.
Renger-Patzsch, Albert.
Paderborn. Paderborn : Ferdinand Schöningh,
1949.
Müller, Otto.
Der Dom zu Aachen. Königstein im Taunus : Verlag
Karl Robert Langewiesche, 1950?
Henze, Helene.
Rund um den Möhnesee. Soest : Mocker & Jahn,
1951.
Renger-Patzsch, Albert.
Lob des Rheingaus. Ingelheim am Rhein : C.H.
Boehringer, 1953.
Botzenhart.
Schloss Cappenberg. Soest : Mocker & Jahn,
1953.
Renger-Patzsch, Albert.
Bilder aus dem Erzgebirge: Berge, Wälder und Felder.
Radebeul : Imago Strahlbild, 1953-1957.
Renger-Patzsch, Albert.
Bilder aus dem Erzgebirge: Dörfer und Städte.
Radebeul : Imago Strahlbild, 1953-1957.
Renger-Patzsch, Albert.
Höxter und Corvey. Soest : Mocker & Jahn,
1954.
Renger-Patzsch, Albert.
Villa Hügel. Essen : Krupp AG, 1954.
Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung.
WAZ Ein Druk- und Verlagshaus im Ruhrgebiet.
Essen :
WAZ -Druck, 1954.
Westfalen, schaffendes Land. Oldenburg : G. Stalling
AG, 1955.
Schnack, Friedrich.
Dresden wie es wurde und war. München : Knorr &
Hirth, 1956.
Renger-Patzsch, Albert.
Deutsche Wasserburgen. Königstein im Taunus :
Langewiesche, 1957.
Bilder aus der Landschaft zwischen Ruhr und Möhne.
Belecke (Möhne) : Siepmann-Werke AG,1957.
Schwartz, Hubertus.
Soest. Soest : Mocker & Jahn, 1957.
Fischer, Wend.
Bau, Raum, Gerät. München : R. Riper, 1957.
Schubert & Salzer Maschinenfabrik A.-G., Ingolstadt.
75 Jahre Textilmaschinenbau, das Porträt eines
Industriebetriebes.
Ingolstadt : Schubert & Salzer Machinenfabrik
A.-G., 1958.
Koch, Alexander.
Restaurants, cafés, bars. Stuttgart : A. Koch,
1959.
Meier, Michael.
Oberrhein: Elsass, Breisgau, Ortenau. München :
Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1959.
Renger-Patzsch, Albert.
Hohenstaufenburgen in Süditalien. Ingelheim am Rhein
: C.H. Boehringer, 1961.
Renger-Patzsch, Albert.
Bäume. Ingelheim am Rhein : C.H. Boehringer,
1962.
Renger-Patzsch, Albert.
Im Wald, Aufnahmen aus dem Naturpark Arnsberger Wald.
Wamel-Möhnesee : Druckwerkstatt Hermann Kätelhön, 1965.
Renger-Patzsch, Albert.
Gestein. Ingelheim am Rhein : C.H. Boehringer, 1966.
Müller, Otto.
Der Dom zu Aachen. Königstein im Taunus : Karl
Robert Langewiesche Nachfolger Hans Köster, 1966?
Leistikow, Dankwart.
Hospitalbauten in Europa aus zehn Jahrhunderten.
Ingelheim am Rhein : C.H. Boehringer, 1967.
List of photocopies of articles by or about Albert
Renger-Patzsch available in the Getty Research Library's research files. Arranged chronologically.
Renger-Patzsch, Albert.
"My philosophy on photography, in: Photorama, international
review of photography." Morstel-Antwerp : Geavert, 1958. October 1958,
p. 626-632.
Renger-Patzsch, Albert.
"Versuch einer Einordnung der Photographie," in:
Schrift 6
der Folkwangschule für Gestaltung Essen
. München : Prestel Verlag,
1958. Lecture held on Jan. 27, 1956 at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität in
Freiburg, Breisgau.
Renger-Patzsch, Albert.
"Versuch einer Einordnung der Photographie," in:
Veröffentlichungen der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Photographie. Köln :
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie, 1960. 4. Heft, Dezember 1960, p.
3-8.
Renger-Patzsch, Albert.
"Over de grenzen der fotografie," in:
Foto : universeel
tijdschrift voor fotografie
. Antwerp, Netherlands : C. Misset, 1961.
August 1961, p. 396-401.
Kempe, Fritz.
"Der Vater der modernen Fotografie: über Albert
Renger-Patzsch," in:
Foto Prisma. Düsseldorf : K. Knapp, 1964. Heft 9,
September 1964, p. 451-457.
Kleinstra, Hille.
"Foto's van bossen en bomen van Albert Renger-Patzsch," in:
Foto : universeel tijdschrift voor fotografie. Antwerp, Netherlands :
C. Misset, 1964. September 1964, p. 412-419.
Series I.
Correspondence,
1924-1966
Physical Description:
ca. 7 lin. ft.
Scope and Content Note
This series is organized in two subseries: pre-war correspondence
1924-1936, and post-war correspondence 1943-1966.
Series IA.
Pre-war correspondence,
1924-1936
Physical Description:
ca. 250 letters
Scope and Content Note
Most of the letters are address to Renger-Patzsch, dating from
1924 to 1936, the time when Renger-Patzsch was working as a freelance
photographer in Bad Harzburg and Essen and as instructor at the Folkwangschule
in Essen. Included are primarily professional and business letters to Albert
Renger-Patzsch from publishers, editors of photographic journals, literary
authors, art critics, artists and other photographers. A few unidentified items
are filed at the end of Box 1. The letters offer insight into the aesthetic
appreciation of Renger-Patzsch's photographic work, and especially the
reception of his book
Die Welt is schön. Included is the unedited version
of Thomas Mann's review of
Die Welt is schön. The letters also provide
information about Renger-Patzsch's participation in various photography
exhibitions held in Germany and abroad. Also present is correspondence with
various art schools, including the Folkwangschule in Essen and the Staatliche
Bauhochschule Weimar, concerning offers of employment for Renger-Patzsch.
Nearly half of the letters are typed.
Box 1
Abendroth-Friedrich Pruss von Zglinicki, and
unidentified pre-war correspondence
Box 1 , Folder 1
Abendroth-D'Oliveira en Spies
Box 1 , Folder 1
Abendroth, Hermann,
1932
Scope and Content Note
1 postcard.
Box 1 , Folder 1
Agfa I.G. Farbenindustrie
Aktiengesellschaft,
1929
Scope and Content Note
1 business letter inviting R.P. to write an article on
photography; with a mention of an article on New Objectivity by Adolf
Eyermann.
Box 1 , Folder 1
Ahrlé, René,
1932
Scope and Content Note
3 items: 2 typescript business letters from Ahrlé and 1
letter by R.P. discussing details of an advertisement for Ford.
Box 1 , Folder 1
Arapoff, Cyril,
1933
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to R.P. concerning Arapoff's work as a
photographer in Oxford, England.
Box 1 , Folder 1
Arts et métiers graphiques (Paris, France),
1931
Scope and Content Note
2 items: a postcard and a business letter, both signed by
Michel Girard.
Box 1 , Folder 1
Bartning, Otto,
1932
Scope and Content Note
1 postcard to R.P. with the letterhead of the Bauatelier
Weimar, Staatliche Hochschule für Handwerk und Baukunst, requesting a
photograph.
Box 1 , Folder 1
Basse, Wilfried,
1932
Scope and Content Note
1 postcard sent from Berlin to R.P., containing a
satirical allusion to the current economic conditions and political climate,
also mentioning a well-known art dealer K. (Daniel Henry Kahnweiler?).
Box 1 , Folder 1
Bedall, Carl,
1927
Scope and Content Note
1 personal letter to R.P. by a pharmacist and amateur
photographer.
Box 1 , Folder 1
Behrens, Peter,
1932
Scope and Content Note
1 letter by the architect to R.P. discussing details of
R.P.'s commission to photograph the smeltery Gutehoffnungshütte near
Oberhausen, Germany.
Box 1 , Folder 1
Bondi, Felix,
1926
Scope and Content Note
1 postcard from the German lawyer, asking for
photographs.
Box 1 , Folder 1
The British Journal of Photography,
1929
Scope and Content Note
Carbon copy of a business letter by the editor George G.
Brown, asking R.P. for reprints for the
British Journal Almanac. Annotated by R.P.
Box 1 , Folder 1
Burmeister, Werner,
1929
Scope and Content Note
A letter to Werner Burmeister in which R.P. expresses his
anger and frustration about the layout of the book
Norddeutsche Backsteindome [1930].
Box 1 , Folder 1
Daimer, Josef,
1929
Scope and Content Note
1 personal letter to R.P.; Daimer was a photographic
chemistry teacher at the Graphische Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt in Vienna,
Austria. [Other letters by Daimer are filed with Post-war correspondence in Box
3].
Box 1 , Folder 1
Deutscher Camera-Almanach,
1925
Scope and Content Note
1 letter rejecting an article offered by R.P. because it
would offend the journal's readers.
Box 1 , Folder 1
Deutscher Werkbund Berlin,
1926
Scope and Content Note
2 professional letters concerning R.P. membership.
Box 1 , Folder 1
d'Oliveira, A. E.,
1930-1931
Scope and Content Note
2 letters to R.P. concerning the apprenticeship of
d'Oliveira's son with R.P. and some technical details of photography.
Box 1 , Folder 2
Feininger, Nona,
1932
Scope and Content Note
1 personal letter to R.P. by the photographer Nona
Feininger.
Box 1 , Folder 2
Fischer, Albert,
1930
Scope and Content Note
1 letter with comments on R.P.'s photography, also
mentioning Ernst Fuhrmann and an exhibition of Van Gogh in Stuttgart.
Box 1 , Folder 2
Fischer, Otto,
1929
Scope and Content Note
1 personal letter to R.P.
Box 1 , Folder 2
Folkwangschule für Gestaltung,
1933-1934
Scope and Content Note
2 letters on official letterhead of Der Oberbürgermeister
der Stadt Essen, regarding R.P. employment as a teacher at the Handwerker- und
Kunstgewerbeschule in Essen [Folkwangschule für Gestaltung]. The letter dated
Nov. 23, 1933 is annotated by R.P. on verso.
Box 1 , Folder 2
Fuhrmann, Ernst,
1923-1926
Scope and Content Note
4 letters to R.P.: an attestation to R.P.'s employment at
Folkwang-Verlag in Hagen-Darmstadt (1923), and three professional letters
(1925, 1926 and 1 undated), two of them with drawings and notes in pencil by
R.P. [Post-war correspondence between R.P. and Ernst Fuhrmann is filed in Box
6, F. 8].
Box 1 , Folder 2
Garthmann, Ilse,
1930
Scope and Content Note
1 personal letter.
Box 1 , Folder 2
Gorny, Hein,
1930
Scope and Content Note
1 personal letter to R.P. from the photographer Hein
Gorny, with humorous content.
Box 1 , Folder 2
Gesellschaft Deutscher Lichtbildner,
1928-1930
Scope and Content Note
7 letters on 8 leaves: six typescript letters with G. L.
D. letterhead, three signed by Franz Grainer, three by Hugo Erfurth, and one
carbon copy of a response by R.P. to Grainer; all letters are regarding R.P.'s
membership in G. D. L. and his participation in exhibitions, especially in 1929
in Eisenach which focused on "neues Sehen und Darstellen" (letter from July 1,
1929 by Grainer). Of Grainer's letter from April 21, 1931 only page 2 exists in
the archive.
Box 1 , Folder 2
Gewerbeschule und Kunstgewerbemuseum der Stadt
Zürich,
1928
Scope and Content Note
1 postcard regarding an upcoming exhibition in Zurich.
With a mention of Carl Heise's text for the catalog.
Box 1 , Folder 2
Gies, Ludwig,
1931-1935
Scope and Content Note
4 letters by the sculptor Ludwig Gies to R.P. concerning
R.P.'s photographs of Gies's work in Bonn.
Box 1 , Folder 2
Goldsmidt, Adolf,
1927
Scope and Content Note
1 postcard: business.
Box 1 , Folder 2
Buergel Goodwin, H. (Heinrich),
1929
Scope and Content Note
2 letters from the Swedish photographer to R.P.; regarding
Goodwin's book
Kamerabilden [1929].
Box 1 , Folder 2
Guardini, Romano,
1937
Scope and Content Note
1 letter by the theologian Romano Guardini, who mentions
his recent book
Der Engel in Dante's Göttlicher Komödie
[1937].
Box 1 , Folder 2
Gurlitt, Cornelius ,
1927
Scope and Content Note
1 thank-you note by Gurlitt [1850-1938] to R.P.
Box 1 , Folder 3
Heise, Carl Georg,
1927-1934
Scope and Content Note
36 items (on 46 leaves): discussions of photographic work by
R.P. , Moholy-Nagy, the Bauhaus and Emil Otto Hoppé. Heise mentions Aby
Warburg' s interest in the photographic work by R.P; book projects with
Wasmuth-Verlag; exhibitions and other professional activities. Included is a
copy of Heise's letter to Kurt Tucholsky asking him to influence the
Ullstein-Verlag on behalf of R.P.'s
Die Welt ist schön, with a drawing on verso.
Heise writes about difficulties encountered by Gustav Friedrich Hartlaub, Karl
With, [Hanns?] Swarzenski and Ernst Gosebruch in the context of the changing
political climate in Germany. Also included is an undated poem by Heise
entitled
Wunderglaube, two undated letters to R.P. and
one letter to Agnes Renger-Patzsch. [Post-war correspondence with Carl Georg
Heise is filed in Box 8, F. 1-4]
Box 1 , Folder 4
Ernst Heimeran Verlag-Ricarda Octavia
Huch
Box 1 , Folder 4
Heimeran, Ernst,
1933
Scope and Content Note
1 item: business letter to R.P. by Ernst Heimeran. On
Ernst Heimeran Verlag letterhead.
Box 1 , Folder 4
Heyer, Gustav Richard,
1928,
undated
Scope and Content Note
2 items, including 1 by R.P.: a business letter from R.P.
to the psychiatrist Gustav Richard Heyer , with Heyer's response on verso, in
which R.P. mentions an exhibition of his work at Graphisches Kabinett München.
Heyer relates the artistic value of R.P.'s photography to Adolf Portmann's
concept of "Innerlichkeit des Organischen" [
Von der Idee des Humanen in der gegenwärtigen
Biologie
[1948]]. [See also post-war correspondence between R.P. and
Heyer in Box 8, F. 7].
Box 1 , Folder 4
Höhere Graphische Fachschule der Stadt
Berlin,
,
1933
Scope and Content Note
2 business letters to R.P., signed by the typographer
Georg Trump, concerning the possibility of a teaching position. [See also the
school curriculum filed in Box 20, F. 3].
Box 1 , Folder 4
Hoppé, E. O. (Emil Otto),
1928-1929
Scope and Content Note
6 items (8 leaves): professional letters from the
photographer Hoppé to R.P. regarding an exhibition of work by R.P. at the
Kestner Gesellschaft in Hannover and the newly published book
Die Welt ist schön. Included is a copy of
Hoppé's review in English and a linocut Christmas and New Year's card by Hoppé.
Box 1 , Folder 4
Huch, Justizrat,
1928-1929
Scope and Content Note
4 items: personal correspondence, including one letter to
Agnes R.P.
Box 1 , Folder 4
Huch, Ricarda Octavia
1929
Scope and Content Note
1 personal letter to R.P.
Box 1 , Folder 5
G. de Jongh - Kunst und Künstler
Box 1 , Folder 5
Jongh, Gaston de,
1931
Scope and Content Note
1 professional letter to R.P. by the Swiss photographer
Gaston de Jongh, commenting on
Die Welt ist schön.
Box 1 , Folder 5
Klingender, L. H. W.,
1926
1929
Scope and Content Note
3 personal/professional letters to R.P.
Box 1 , Folder 5
Kozma, Lajos,
undated [1925?]
Scope and Content Note
1 personal letter to R.P. by the Hungarian architect and
designer Lajos Kozma [1884-1948] complaining about the difficult cultural
climate in Hungary, recommending to R.P. the publisher E. F. Hübsch in Vienna,
mentioning Ö. Gábor Pogány and the publication
Ars una, also his books: one on ex-libris [
Szignetkönyve (1925)] and one with fairy
tales.
Box 1 , Folder 5
Krander,
1927
Scope and Content Note
1 postcard to R.P. asking for zoo photos.
Box 1 , Folder 5
Krauss, Friedrich Emil,
undated
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to R.P. by the photographer Krauss, with a
letterhead design featuring the trademark of Krausswerke Schwarzenberg. Krauss
plans to visit R.P. in Essen.
Box 1 , Folder 5
Kroner,
1925
Scope and Content Note
1 personal letter to R.P.
Box 1 , Folder 5
Kunstgewerbe-Museum der Stadt Köln,
1928
Scope and Content Note
1 letter concerning an exhibition of photographs by R.P.
Box 1 , Folder 5
Kunstgewerbemuseum Zürich,
1928
Scope and Content Note
1 letter concerning an exhibition ofphotographs by R.P. ,
annotated.
Box 1 , Folder 5
Kunst und Künstler,
1928
Scope and Content Note
1 business letter to R.P. signed by the Austrian
photographer Alfred Steffen; with a mention of an article by Heise.
Box 1 , Folder 6
Otto Lasius-László Moholy-Nagy
Box 1 , Folder 6
Lasius, Otto,
1925
Scope and Content Note
1 postcard from the Swiss artist Otto Lasius reproducing
his lithograph
Dolorida. Lasius provides information about
the original art work.
Box 1 , Folder 6
Lexer, Ehrich,
1937
Scope and Content Note
1 item: a thank-you letter from the German surgeon Ehrich
Lexer from Solln near Munich.
Box 1 , Folder 6
Lexer, Gunda,
1933
Scope and Content Note
1 item: letter from the daughter of Ehrich Lexer,
accepting apprenticeship with R.P. Annotated, upper corner missing. [See also
Box 1, F.7 under: Petersen, Ernst and Box 9, F.1 under: Holzmeister, Gunda]
Box 1 , Folder 6
Lichnowsky, Mechtilde,
1925
Scope and Content Note
1 thank-you letter by the German literary author Mechtilde
Lichnowsky, praising R.P.'s photographic work.
Box 1 , Folder 6
Das Lichtbild,
1930
Scope and Content Note
1 item: invitation to R.P. to participate in the
exhibition
Das Lichtbild, planned in Stuttgart for the
summer of 1930; signed by Renner [the Bauhaus typographer Paul Renner?].
Box 1 , Folder 6
Lüppo-Cramer, Hinricus ,
1924
Scope and Content Note
1 item: letter concerning technical aspects of photography
by the author of
Negativ-Entwicklung bei hellem Lichte
Safraninverfahren
[1922].
Box 1 , Folder 6
Lissitzky, El,
undated (1930?)
Scope and Content Note
1 letter by El Lissitzky asking R.P. to photograph
pavilions and objects of the Soviet Union at the Internationale Hygiene
Ausstellung in Dresden [1930] and the IPA [Internationale Photographische
Ausstellung?] in Leipzig.
Box 1 , Folder 6
Mahlau, Alfred,
1928-1935
Scope and Content Note
8 items: 6 letters and 2 post cards to R.P. from the
painter Alfred Mahlau. Includes humorous sketches by Mahlau who also comments
on R.P.'s photographic work.
Box 1 , Folder 6
Mann, Thomas,
1928
Scope and Content Note
2 items (4 leaves): included are a letter to R.P. by Mann
who announces that his review of
Die Welt ist schön will soon be published in
Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung, and the
typescript of the review (3 leaves). The typescript presents the original
version of Thomas Mann's text, i.e. before editorial changes by the
Berlier Illustrierte Zeitung [see this archive
Box 7, F. 7 under: Gritz, L. Gruber, letter by R.P. from July 1, 1960].
Box 1 , Folder 6
Marcks, Gerhard,
1936
Scope and Content Note
1 letter asking R.P. for photographs of the
Osthaus-Monument [i.e. : "Sitzender Knabe", 1931, in Folkwang-Museum, Essen;
commemorating the art historian and collector Karl Ernst Osthaus].
Box 1 , Folder 6
Masclet, Daniel,
undated [1928?]
Scope and Content Note
1 letter by the French photographer and author Daniel
Masclet asking R.P. to send photographs to be included in Masclet's
Histoire de l'art photographique and
expressing his artistic opinion on R.P.'s work, especially the photographs
published in
Die Welt ist schön. Masclet lists his own
professional affiliations, including the Groupe des XV.
Box 1 , Folder 6
Mauritius-Verlag,
1932
Scope and Content Note
1 letter from Ernst Meyer at the Mauritius-Verlag in
Berlin, asking R.P. to take initiative against a fraud case.
Box 1 , Folder 6
Merseburg,
1924-1925
Scope and Content Note
1 personal letter to R.P.
Box 1 , Folder 6
Meyer, Peter,
1928
Scope and Content Note
3 letters from the Swiss architect to R.P. asking for
photographs and proposing to include R.P.'s photographic work in an exhibition
at the Kunstgewerbemuseum Zürich and at the Technikum Winterthur
Ingenieurschule.
Box 1 , Folder 6
Moholy-Nagy, László,
1925-1926
Scope and Content Note
2 letters to R.P.; Moholy-Nagy describes the current
financial problems experienced at the Bauhaus and by many publishers, as well
as his own difficult financial situation, and mentions his book
Film und Photographie [
Malerei, Photographie, Film, 1925].
Box 1 , Folder 6
Molzahn, Johannes,
1927
Scope and Content Note
2 letters by the German painter and graphic artist
regarding letterhead and other stationary designed by Molzahn for R.P. The
letetrs are typed on a sample copy of the letterhead. Molzahn also writes about
his relocation to Breslau .
Box 1 , Folder 7
Neue Kunst Fides-Preussische Staatsbibliothek,
Handschriften-Abteilung
Box 1 , Folder 7
Galerie Neue Kunst Fides,
1928
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to R.P. from Rudolf Probst regarding photographs
of the Hallig Islands, proposing an exhibition of R.P.'s photographic work at
Galerie Neue Kunst Fides in Dresden, with a mention of Emil and Ada Nolde.
Box 1 , Folder 7
Die Neue Linie,
1929
Scope and Content Note
1 letter by the editor Werner, asking R.P. to contribute
photographs for the newly founded journal of the Beyer-Verlag. With a reference
to Hildebrandt Gurlitt.
Box 1 , Folder 7
Niemann, Wilhelm,
1933
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to R.P. regarding R.P.'s participation in the
exhibition
Die Kamera in Berlin. Pencil drawings and
annotations by R.P. on verso. [See also announcement filed in Box. 20, F. 3.
]
Box 1 , Folder 7
Karl Ernst Osthaus-Bund,
1928
Scope and Content Note
2 letters from Karl With, planning exhibitions of R.P.'s
photographic work at the Karl Ernst Osthaus-Bund in Hagen, and mentioning the
possibility of a teaching position for R.P.
Box 1 , Folder 7
Pécsi, Józef,
1927-1930
Scope and Content Note
4 items: 3 letters and 1 postcard from the Hungarian
photographer and editor of the magazine
Magyar Fotografia; asking for permission to
publish a Hungarian translation of R.P.'s text "Photographie und Kunst" in
Magyar Fotografia, also commenting on
Die Welt ist schön.
Box 1 , Folder 7
Petersen, Ernst,
1933
Scope and Content Note
1 letter recommending Gunda Lexer for an apprenticeship
with R.P.; with a mention of Prof. Wever. [See also under: Lexer, Gunda]
Box 1 , Folder 7
Petschow, Robert,
1930
Scope and Content Note
1 business letter from the editor of the magazine
Luftfahrt in Berlin.
Box 1 , Folder 7
Photographische Korrespondenz,
1926,
1927
Scope and Content Note
2 letters from the editors regarding R.P.'s text
"Photographie und Kunst" in the March 1, [1930?] issue of
Photographische Korrespondenz.
Box 1 , Folder 7
Porza, Landeszentrale für Deutschland
e.V.,
1930
Scope and Content Note
2 items: a letter from the Porza Association asking R.P.
to join as Germany's representative for photography. Also included is a
typescript list of the members of the committee. Signed by Wa. von Alvensleben.
Box 1 , Folder 7
Preussische Staatsbibliothek,
1928
Scope and Content Note
1 professional letter to R.P. from the Department of
Manuscripts [Handschriften-Abteilung] of the Preussische Staatsbibliothek in
Berin.
Box 1 , Folder 8
Erwin Quadenfeldt-Heinrich Schwarz
Box 1 , Folder 8
Quadenfeldt, Erwin,
1927
Scope and Content Note
1 professional letter from the portrait photographer in
Vienna.
Box 1 , Folder 8
Redslob, Edwin,
1927
Scope and Content Note
1 professional letter to R.P. from the art historian on
Der Reichskunstwart letterhead.
Box 1 , Folder 8
Riess, Th.,
1931
Scope and Content Note
1 professional letter to R.P., with a mention of a
photograph of the writer Jakob Wassermann (1873-1934).
Box 1 , Folder 8
Royal Photographic Society of Great
Britain,
1934
Scope and Content Note
2 letters inviting R.P. to a one man show at the society's
gallery in London, planned for March 1935.
Box 1 , Folder 8
Santeul, Claude de,
1930
Scope and Content Note
2 letters by the amateur photographer regarding an
exhibition of R.P.'s work held Feb. 28-March 14, 1930 at Société française de
photographie in Paris. With a mention of an article by Heinrich Schwarz about
R.P. issued in
Bulletin de la Société française de
photographie
; also thanking R.P. for a copy of
Hamburg [1930].
Box 1 , Folder 8
Schmeil, Prof. Dr.
1924
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to R.P. regarding photographs of plants for a
natural science textbook.
Box 1 , Folder 8
Schellbach, Siegfried,
1930
Scope and Content Note
1 postcard to R.P. concerning North German Gothic
architecture.
Box 1 , Folder 8
Schmitt, Cornel,
1929
Scope and Content Note
1 letter; commenting on
Die Welt ist schön.
Box 1 , Folder 8
Schmölz, Hugo,
1929
Scope and Content Note
1 professional letter from the photographer.
Box 1 , Folder 8
Schule Reimann (Berlin, Germany),
1932
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to R.P.; regarding a teaching position.
Box 1 , Folder 8
Schumacher, Fritz,
1928
Scope and Content Note
A letter by the architect and art historian to Aby Warburg
suggesting architectural sites in Hamburg to be photographed by R.P.
Box 1 , Folder 8
Schulze-Thurn, Walter,
1928
Scope and Content Note
1 personal letter.
Box 1 , Folder 8
Schurer, Di U.,
1927-1931
Scope and Content Note
3 business letters.
Box 1 , Folder 8
Schwarz, Heinrich,
1929-1930
Scope and Content Note
2 letters from the art historian proposing to present
R.P.'s work in France and recommending that Claude de Santeul select the
photographs. Schwarz also comments on a review by Julius Meier-Graefe in
Frankfurter Zeitung of his book on the
Scottish photographer Hill [
David Octavius Hill, der Meister der
Photographie
, 1931].
Box 1 , Folder 9
Rudolf Schwarz-Franz Josef Steinen
Box 1 , Folder 9
Schwarz, Rudolf,
1927-1933,
undated
Scope and Content Note
13 items: business correspondence to R.P. from the
architect and director of Kunstgewerbeschule Aachen concerning R.P.'s
photographs for Schwarz's book
Wegweisung der Technik [1928- ]. Schwarz also
mentions articles about R.P. in
Die Form and in
Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung; and
photographs by R.P. of the Corpus Christi [Fronleichnam] Church in Aachen. He
also presents his plan to design a house for R.P.
Box 1 , Folder 9
Staatliche Hochschule für Handwerk und Baukunst
in Weimar,
1927
Scope and Content Note
1 professional letter from the Bauhaus architect Ernst
Neufert regarding R.P.'s employment at the Staatliche Bauhochschule Weimar.
Typed in lower case only.
Box 1 , Folder 9
Städtische Handwerker- und Kunstgewerbeschule
(Braunschweig, Germany),
1926
Scope and Content Note
1 business letter to R.P. concerning employment and
salary.
Box 1 , Folder 9
Städtische Kunstgewerbebibliothek (Frankfurt am
Main, Germany),
1928
Scope and Content Note
1 letter from the director's office concerning an
acquisition of photographs by R.P.
Box 1 , Folder 9
Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim,
1928
Scope and Content Note
1 letter by the director of Städtische Kunsthalle
Mannheim, Gustav Friedrich Hartlaub asking R.P. to send photographs of Lübeck;
and seeking R.P.'s opinion regarding Burkhardt Meyer's plan to publish a book
about R.P. with the title
Gesicht der Zeit and text by Hartlaub.
Box 1 , Folder 9
Steinen, Franz Josef,
1927
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to R.P by the winegrower concerning wine
care.
Box 1 , Folder 10
Jan Thorn-Prikker - Friedrich Pruss von
Zglinicki
Box 1 , Folder 10
Thorn Prikker, Jan,
1931
Scope and Content Note
1 postcard sent from Köln-Bayenthal: professional
correspondence regarding photographs of the windows of the
Auferstehungskirche.
Box 1 , Folder 10
Ons Eigen Tijdschrift, Oosterbeek,
1924
Scope and Content Note
1 letter by the editor D. J. van der Ven concerning
photographs of cactus plants and an article about R.P.
Box 1 , Folder 10
Toller, Ernst,
1929
Scope and Content Note
1 letter in which Toller agrees to write the introduction
for a book by R.P.
Box 1 , Folder 10
Urban, Paul, Hofrat,
1925
Scope and Content Note
2 letters, including 1 by R.P. Hofrat Paul Urban comments
on R.P.'s article "Ketzergedanken über künstlerische Photographie", published
in
Photographie für Alle. R.P. responds by
writing about photographic vision ("Sehenlernen und Sehenkönnen") and expresses
his opinion about contemporary photography and the relationship between
photography and art.
Box 1 , Folder 10
Wackernagel, Martin,
1930
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to R.P. by the art historian Martin Wackernagel,
concerning photographs for Wackernagel's
Die Baukunst des 17. und 18. Jahrhunders,
published within the series
Handbuch der Kunstwissenschaft. [See also
post-war correspondence with Martin Wackernagel filed in Box 14, F. 11].
Box 1 , Folder 10
Weinert, August,
1926-1928
Scope and Content Note
9 items (on 23 leaves). Weinert, chief surgeon at the
Chirurgische Klinik Sudenburg, discusses and partially illustrates with pencil
drawings an article for which R.P. took the photographs ["Das Problem der
Fussleiden und seine Lösung", in:
Die Medizinische Welt, Heft 1; see also:
offprint filed in Box 19, F. 3]. ]. Weinert mentions that he has shown R.P.'s
photographs to Benscheidt and [Ernst] Neufert from the new Bauhaus in Weimar;
and discusses details of R.P.'s commission to photograph the vineyard of [Franz
Josef] Steinen. Weinert also mentions a photomontage by Adler [Samuel Adler?]
and art work by Albert Frisch [printer in Berlin?]. Annotated by R.P.
Box 1 , Folder 10
Woytinsky, Wladimir S.,
1924
Scope and Content Note
1 letter. The exile Russian economist Woytinsky mentions
the political upheaval in Georgia [Soviet Union] and his book on statistics [
Zehn Jahre neues Deutschland, 1929].
Box 1 , Folder 10
Verlag Ernst Wasmuth,
1928
Scope and Content Note
1 letter from the Verlag Ernst Wasmuth in Berlin, inviting
R.P. to contribute photographs for the magazine
Atlantis.
Box 1 , Folder 10
Wigman, Mary,
1931-1934
Scope and Content Note
8 items, including 7 letters and one poem by Mary Wigman
written on the occasion of R.P.'s 40th birthday. The letters concern R.P.'s
photographs for Mary Wigman's book [
Deutsche Tanzkunst, 1935].
Box 1 , Folder 10
Kurt Wolff Verlag,
1928
Scope and Content Note
1 business letter from the publishing house in Munich and
a postcard to R.P. from Kurt Wolff, asking R.P. to publish a book [
Die Welt ist schön]. With a mention of Carl
Georg Heise.
Box 1 , Folder 10
Zglinicki, Friedrich Pruss von ,
1930
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to R.P. Zglinicki asks for permission to use the
title
Die Welt ist schön for an experimental movie
without a plot. With a mention of the producer Arnold Fanck (1889-1974) and
Joachim Gerstenberg, the owner of Foto-Atelier Dührkoop in Berlin.
Box 1 , Folder 11
Unidentified pre-war correspondence
Box 1 , Folder 11
Collage,
1925?
Scope and Content Note
1 leaf with images pasted on both sides, and captions in
green ink. One of the captions refers to April 1, 1925. The captions include
names: Ernst Fuhrmann and [Albert] Lange.
Box 1 , Folder 11
Personal letter,
undated
Scope and Content Note
1 personal letter, dated May 1st, signed; Vater [?], with
a pencil drawing of a flower.
Box 1 , Folder 11
Unidentified correspondent from London,
1929
Scope and Content Note
1 typed personal letter, dated June 8, 1929, sent from
London, 23, Brunswich Square; signed by hand: "Drn." or "Dru." Experimental
typography. The author comments on recent elections in England.
Series I.B.
Post-war correspondence,
1943-1966
Physical Description:
7 lin. ft.
Scope and Content Note
This portion of the archive dates from 1943 to 1966. During most
of this time (from 1944 on), Renger-Patzsch lived with his wife Agnes and
daughter Sabine in Wamel, near Soest in North Rhine-Westphalia. The majority of
items are typescripts, or carbon copies of typescripts. Letters by
Renger-Patzsch are predominantly carbon copies. The container list mentions
substantial annotations, editing, sketches and other marks.
Unidentified post-war correspondence is filed in Box 15, F. 6.
The post-war correspondence details Renger-Patzsch's professional life and
provides insight into his views on photography as an art form, and on
commercial photography in post-war Germany. The letters give information on the
industrial, architectural and landscape photographs taken by Renger-Patzsch
after the war and the reprinting and republishing of his salvaged pre-war work.
They also offer insight into the production of his various publications and
exhibitions and his lecturing activities.
A major part of this section comprises business correspondence
with numerous industrial firms, publishing houses and cultural organizations.
Over 530 items constitute correspondence with the chemical concern C. H.
Boehringer Sohn in Ingelheim, which between 1946 and 1966 commissioned and
financed several of Renger-Patzsch's privately printed books. Other industrial
firms significantly represented in the archive are Schubert & Salzer in
Ingolstadt; Deutsche Spinnereimaschinenbau AG in Ingolstadt; Jenaer Glaswerk
Schott & Gen. [later renamed Schott Glaswerke, filed under Schott, Erich];
Essener Steinkohlenbergwerke; Deutsche Spiegelglas A.G.; Werkstätten J.
Dickerhoff in Bochum; Th. Goldschmidt AG in Essen; Knoll International in
Stuttgart; Presswerk AG in Essen; and Riedel & Co. in Bielefeld.
Among the individual correspondents are editors, scholars, art
historians, architects, and other photographers. Of particular interest is the
correspondence (ca. 74 items) with the German-born British photographer,
collector and photographic historian Helmut Gernsheim, with whom Renger-Patzsch
exchanges opinions about current trends in photography, especially commercial
photography, and discusses the relationship between photography and art.
Another significant portion represents the correspondence with the German art
historian Carl Georg Heise. Heise's letters detail his own editing and writing
activities, and include critical reviews of Renger-Patzsch's photographic work,
book projects and writings. Also rich in intellectual discussions on
photography, art and other cultural topics is the correspondence with the
architect Karl Freckmann, the photographer and writer Ernst Fuhrmann, the
Austrian art historian and photographer Viktor Fürst, the ecologist Hugo
Hertwig, the German-American photographer and art dealer Lotte Jacobi,
Ilsemarie von Scheven (book dealer in Hamm and literary critic), the architect
Rudolf Schwarz, Käthe Smith (wife of Ronald Gregor Smith, a theology professor
in Glasgow ), the photographer Dieter Steffen, and the German philologist Peter
Wapnewski.
One topic frequently addressed by Renger-Patzsch in these
letters is his appreciation of Hugo Erfurth's portrait photography.
Renger-Patzsch frequently writes about his efforts to find a publisher for a
book about Erfurth. His correspondence with editors of publishing houses,
especially the Insel-Verlag and the Hans Peters Verlag, shows the changing
market for photography books in Germany during the 1950s and 1960s.
The post-war correspondence also details Renger-Patzsch's
involvement as a board member of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie, an
association of professional photographers. Letters between Renger-Patzsch and
Fritz L. Gruber, Helmut Gernsheim, Carl Georg Heise, and the publisher of
Foto Prisma, Wilhelm Schöppe, provide insight into
the process of nominating the candidate for the association's annual culture
prize, and reveal Renger-Patzsch's opinios about the work of other contemporary
photographers, especially Bill Brandt, August Sander, and Otto Steinert.
Part 1 AGFA - Knoll International
Box 2, Folder 1
AGFA Photofabrik (Leverkusen,
Germany),
1962
Scope and Content Note
1 letter by R.P. to AGFA. R.P. complains about the quality
of paper; the letter contains technical details of his working process.
Drawings on verso.
Box 2, Folder 1
Amerika-Haus (Heidelberg, Germany),
1956
Scope and Content Note
8 items, including 4 by R.P., of correspondence between
R.P. and directors David W. Smith and Alfred Motzgau, concerning a lecture R.P.
gave at Amerika-Haus Heidelberg on July 6, 1956. The letter from March 3
presents a short summary of the lecture, provides insight into his concept of
photography, also his opinion of the photographic work by Edward Steichen, Hugo
Erfurth and David Octavius Hill. The letter from April 17 contains
autobiographical information.
Box 2, Folder 1
Axt, Carl,
1965
Scope and Content Note
1 personal letter to R.P.
Box 2, Folder 1
Aly, Gretchen,
1966
Scope and Content Note
1 personal letter to R.P.; commenting on
Gestein [1966] and
Bäume [1962].
Box 2, Folder 2
Bad Pyrmont-Josef Bergenthal
Box 2, Folder 2
Bad Pyrmont (Germany),
1959
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to R.P. regarding photographs of the Kurpark,
commissioned to R.P. by Böhringer.
Box 2, Folder 2
Badenheuer, Friedrich,
1960
Scope and Content Note
1 letter: Badenheuer, board member of Rheinstahl
Eisenwerke Gelsenkirchen A.G., congratulates R.P. for being awarded the culture
prize of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie.
Box 2, Folder 2
Dr. Baier & Co.,
1955
Scope and Content Note
2 letters from the firm Dr. Baier & Co. Textilwerk in
Emsdetten, signed by Rudolf Schmitz, one to R.P. and one to Karl-Heinz von
Saint-George in Münster. Both letters concern R.P.'s commission to photograph
curtains made by Dr. Baier & Co.
Box 2, Folder 2
Barth, Emil,
1950
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to R.P. from the poet. Barth mentions his book
Lemuria [1947] and writes about his views on
photography.
Box 2, Folder 2
Bearth, Peter Paul,
1966
Scope and Content Note
1 letter by the geologist, commenting on
Gestein [1966] and mentioning his work, still
in manuscript [
Die Ophiolithe der Zone von Zermatt-Saas Fee
[1967]].
Box 2, Folder 2
Belser Wissenschaftlicher Dienst,
1965
Scope and Content Note
2 items, including 1 letter by R.P. to the publisher Chr.
Belser in Stuttgart, regarding illustrations for the book
Kunst des frühen Mittelalters [1969].
Box 2, Folder 2
Benscheidt, Karl,
1960 and 1966
Scope and Content Note
2 items: a personal letter to R.P. asking for a copy of
Bäume [1962] and a personal letter addressed
to Agnes R.P.
Box 2, Folder 2
Bergenthal, Josef,
1966
Scope and Content Note
2 items, including 1 by R.P. Bergenthal asks for reprints
of a photograph of a coal mine, published in
Die Ruhr, Bilder vom Lauf eines Flusses
[1958]. R.P. comments on his photographs of coal mines.
Box 2, Folder 3
Boje, Walter,
1966
Scope and Content Note
1 letter from R.P. to Dr. Boje [Walter Boje]; R.P.
stresses that both share the same opinion of photography.
Box 2, Folder 3
Bourdeau, Robert,
1966
Scope and Content Note
2 items: correspondence with the Canadian photographer,
who asks for individual prints from the book
Die Welt ist schön and inquires about R.P.'s
photographic process. R.P. provides technical details, also refers Bourdeau to
Lotte Jacobi as his representative in the United States.
Box 2, Folder 3
Brandt, Bill,
1955
Scope and Content Note
1 letter from Bill Brandt , giving R.P. permission to
reproduce his photographs "Lambert Walk", "Edith Sitwell", "London suburb" and
"East End fight".
Box 2, Folder 3
Böll, Heinrich,
1963
Scope and Content Note
1 letter from Heinrich Böll, thanking R.P. for
photographs, also mentioning Kiepenheuer Verlag.
Box 2, Folder 4
C.H. Boehringer Sohn,
1946-1949
Scope and Content Note
21 items: correpondence with Hanns Strobel and Hanns
Kücklich. The letter from Oct. 28, 1946 from Hanns Strobel to the wife of
Walter Paatz, with Paatz's letter to Mrs. Heise and to R.P. on verso, are
personal. The letter from July 30, 1949 has a pencil drawing on verso. The
books mentioned are
Das Mainzer Becken [i.e.
Lob des Rheingaues, 1953],
Paderborn [1949], and
Würzburger Chronik des denkwürdigen Jahres 1945
by Hans Oppelt [c1947].
Box 2, Folder 5
C.H. Boehringer Sohn,
1950-1951
Scope and Content Note
19 items, including 10 items by R.P.: correpondence with
Ernst Boehringer. The letter from May 21, 1951 to R.P. has a caricature drawing
of a face and pencil notes on verso. The letters concern the process of
selecting the photographs for
Das Mainzer Becken (i.e.
Lob des Rheingaues) together with Ernst
Emmerling, and
Rund um den Möhnesee [1951]. R.P. recommends to
Ernst Boehringer Helene Henze as a Spanish translator, and a book by Sedlmayr [
Verlust der Mitte (1951)]. In the letter from
July 1, R.P. mentions his article on photography published in
Foto Prisma.
Box 2, Folder 6
C.H. Boehringer Sohn,
1952
Scope and Content Note
30 items (on 32 leaves), including 12 by R.P.: correpondence
with Ernst Boehringer, Hanns Strobel, and Hanns Kücklich. The letters concern
image quality of the photographs for
Lob des Rheingaus, mainly Ernst Boehringer's
choice of the printing technique "Tiefdruck", which was decisively rejected by
R.P. as artistically inadequate.
Box 2, Folder 7
C.H. Boehringer Sohn,
1953
Scope and Content Note
20 items, including 8 by R.P.: correpondence with Ernst
Boehringer and Hanns Kücklich. The letters concern
Lob des Rheingaus (R.P. partially accepting the
printing technique, see his letter from April 29, 1953), and reprints from the
series
Historische Apotheken Deutschlands; also
correspondence with H. G. Schwieger concerning reprints for a book project
commissioned by the Paul Hartmann A.G. about old pharmacies.
Box 2, Folder 8
C.H. Boehringer Sohn,
1954
Scope and Content Note
20 items, including 6 by R.P.: correpondence with Ernst
Boehringer, 7 letters to R.P. from Dr. Karl Thomae GmbH. (Dr. Sänger), the firm
C.H. Boehringer Sohn (Hanns Kücklich, Hanns Strobel, Elisabeth Boehm), and the
obituary for Hanns Strobel. In the letter from Feb. 26, R.P. mentions an
invitation for an exhibition by the Hamburger Landeslichtbildstelle. The
correspondence concerns mainly photographs commissioned by the pharmaceutical
firm Dr. Karl Thomae. Several letters are annotated by R.P.; also reprints from
Lob des Rheingaus and photographs for the series
Historische Krankenhäuser Deutschlands.
Box 2, Folder 9
C.H. Boehringer Sohn,
1955
Scope and Content Note
12 items (on 13 leaves), including 4 by R.P.: correspondence
with Ernst Boehringer, and the firm C.H. Boehringer Sohn (Hanns Kücklich). The
letters concern reprints for the series
Historische Krankenhäuser Italiens. In the
letter to Hanns Kücklich from Aug. 22, R.P. expresses his opinion about
contemporary photography. In his letter from Dec. 18 R.P. outlines a lecture he
was invited to give at the Boehringer firm in Ingelheim.
Box 2, Folder 10
C.H. Boehringer Sohn,
1956
Scope and Content Note
45 items (on 53 leaves), including 18 by R.P. :
correspondence between R.P. and the firm C.H. Boehringer Sohn (Siegfried Bene,
Rominger), Ernst Boehringer, Heinrich M. Schwarz from the Bibliotheca Hertziana
in Rome, Walter Paatz and his wife Elisabeth, also by Walter Paatz to Ernst
Boehringer, and Elisabeth Paatz to R.P. Several letters concern a lecture R.P.
was invited to give at the firm Boehringer in Ingelheim. The majority of
letters concerns a book project about medieval architecture in Italy [
Hohenstaufenburgen in Süditalien, 1961],
commissioned to R.P. by C.H. Boehringer Sohn, and preparations for the trip to
Italy (Sept.-Oct. 1956), together with the art historian Walter Paatz. Some of
the letters by Walter Paatz mention the Swedish art historian Erik Lundberg.
The letters from R.P. to Mrs. Heide (Oct. 31) and Elisabeth Paatz (Nov.16)
provide insight into difficult relationship between R.P. and Walter Paatz
during the trip to Italy. [See also Box 8, F. 4 under: Heise, Carl Georg and
Hildegard Heise, 1956-1959]. In two letters to Walter Paatz, both dated Dec.
12, R.P. discusses his photographic work in the context of Hermann Friedmann's
philosopy of science, expresses his opinion about art history as a science,
refers to Hermann Friedman's
Wissenschaft und Symbol [1948], and comments on
Walter Paatz's text
Der Begriff der Realität.
Box 2, Folder 11
C.H. Boehringer Sohn,
1957
Scope and Content Note
46 items (on 49 leaves), including 21 by R.P.:
correspondence between R. P. and Ernst Boehringer, Heinrich M. Schwarz and
Wolff Metternich from the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome, the firm C.H.
Boehringer Sohn (Siegfried Bene, Rominger, Wetzel, Mäding), Julie Boehringer,
Elisabeth Brodrecht, Robert Boehringer, and Leo Bruhns. Several letters concern
the itinerary, fees and travel expenses for the second trip to Italy, planned
together with the art historian Heinrich M. Schwarz. In his letter from Sept. 8
to [Ernst?] Boehringer, R. P. makes suggestions regarding the choice of topics
and the selection of photographs for the book
Hohenstaufenburgen in Süditalien [1961]. Several
letters concern the medical treatment of R.P. and the resulting expenses
following a car accident in Italy (correpondence with the firm C.H. Boehringer
Sohn) . In his letters from July 31 and Aug. 8 to Julie Boehringer, R.P.
provides guidelines on how to achieve plasticity when taking photographs of
small sculpture, and comments on the quality of the photographs he took in
Italy. In his letter from Aug. 26 to [Robert?] Boehringer, R.P. comments on a
recently published Festschrift [
Robert Boehringer, eine Freundesgabe, 1957]. The
letter from Dec. 6 to Julie Boehringer includes a mention of Erich Schott from
Schott Glaswerke in Mainz.
Box 2, Folder 12
C.H. Boehringer Sohn,
1958
Scope and Content Note
53 items (on 62 leaves), including 22 by R.P.:
correspondence between R. P. and Ernst Boehringer, Julie Boehringer, Marianne
Boehringer, the firm C.H. Boehringer Sohn (mainly Siegfried Bene), Hanno Hahn
from the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome, the physician W. Henneke, also a letter
in Italian from Wolff Metternich from the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome to
Prof. Schettini in Bari, and a letter from Robert Boehringer to Siegfried Bene.
The letters concern mainly the follow-up trip to Italy, which R.P. undertook in
June 1958 accompanied by Julie Boehringer; the acceptance of Hanno Hahn as the
text author, transfer of reprints from the widow of Heinrich M. Schwarz, also
the medical treatment of R.P. and the resulting expenses following the car
accident in 1957. Several letters concern the book project
Bäume [1962], especially the letter from Jan. 5
from Ernst Boehringer which is extensively annotated by R.P. In his letter from
Jan. 11 R.P. mentions an unpublished book about Arnsberger Wald [
Im Wald, 1965] as an example of his artistic
efforts towards expressiveness in photography.
Box 3, Folder 1
C.H. Boehringer Sohn,
1959
Scope and Content Note
44 items (on 52 leaves), including 15 by R.P.:
correspondence mainly between R. P. and the firm C.H. Boehringer Sohn
(Siegfried Bene), also with Ernst Boehringer, Marianne Boehringer, Julie
Boehringer, Hanno Hahn and Ernst Jünger. The correspondence between Hanno Hahn,
R.P. and Siegfried Bene concerns Hahn's text and the selection of photographs
for the book
Hohenstaufenburgen in Süditalien. The letters
between R.P. and the firm C.H. Boehringer Sohn concern organizational details
of field trips R.P. made to take photographs of trees [for the book
Bäume]. In the letter from Aug. 21 to Ernst
Boehringer R.P. comments on his meeting with Ernst Jünger regarding Jünger's
text for the book
Bäume. In his letter from Oct. 5 Ernst
Boehringer asks R.P. to make portrait photographs of the Boehringer family.
Box 3, Folder 2
C.H. Boehringer Sohn,
1960
Scope and Content Note
54 items (on 63 leaves), including 19 by R.P. and 2 by his
wife: correspondence mainly between R. P. and the firm C.H. Boehringer Sohn
(mainly Siegfried Bene, also Rominger) concerning travel expenses and
honorariums related to the 1958 trip to Italy and to several field trips R.P.
undertook to take photographs of trees for the book
Bäume, as well as the editing and printing of
the books
Bäume and
Hohenstaufenburgen in Süditalien (letter by R.P.
to Rominger from April 23); letters to R.P. from Julie Boehringer and Hanno
Hahn, R.P.'s correspondence with the firm Bruckmann KG Graphische Kunstanstalt,
a draft of a letter by R.P. to Wolff Metternich and a signed carbon copy of a
letter from Carl Georg Heise to Ernst Boehringer in which Heise comments on the
selection of photographs for the book
Bäume and proposes that the book will be printed
by Giovanni Mardersteig. Hanno Hahn's death in a car accident is the subject of
a letter from Siegfried Bene to R.P., dated Sept. 9. This folder includes also
two obituaries for Albert Boeringer and drafts of two letters of condolence by
R.P. to Ernst Boehinger and wife.
Box 3, Folder 3
C.H. Boehringer Sohn,
1961
Scope and Content Note
46 items (on 54 leaves), including 19 by R.P.:
correspondence mainly between R. P. and the firm C.H. Boehringer Sohn
(Siegfried Bene, Rominger) and with Ernst Boehringer, also one letter by
Giovanni Mardersteig to Siegfried Bene. The letters concern travel expenses and
honorariums related to the book projects
Bäume and
Hohenstaufenburgen in Süditalien, also editorial
matters, including the draft of the preface to
Hohenstaufenburgen in Süditalien. Several
letters regard editorial and technical aspects of the printing of
Bäume under supervision of Giovanni Mardersteig
by the firm Brend' Amour, Simhart & Co. in Munich (some of the letters are
annotated by R.P.). In his letters from Oct. 21 and Oct. 25 to Ernst Boehringer
R.P. expresses his opinion of Ernst Jünger's introduction to
Bäume. Also mentioned are the book project
Gestein [1966] and R.P.'s portraits of the
Boehringer family and Mr. and Mrs. Liebrecht.
Box 3 , Folder 4
C.H. Boehringer Sohn,
1962
Scope and Content Note
43 items (on 47 leaves), including 19 by R.P.:
correspondence mainly between R. P. and the firm C.H. Boehringer Sohn
(Siegfried Bene, Rominger), Robert and Ernst Boehringer and Giovanni
Mardersteig, a letter from the architect Klaus Hoffmann to R.P., also a
handwritten letter to R.P. from Marianne Boehringer. Several letters discuss
editing and printing details concerning
Bäume, also R.P.'s travel expenses and
honorariums for this book project. In his letter from Jan. 22 to Siegfried
Bene, R.P. explains his artistic intention in
Bäume and the nature of his collaborative effort
with Ernst Jünger. Several letters concern the trips to France (together with
Wolfgang Haber), Belgium, Germany and Switzerland for the book project
Gestein [1966], and a mention of Ernst Jünger's
recent publication
Das spanische Mondhorn [1962]. Two letters from
Robert Boehringer to R.P. concern the death of the art historian Clemens
Sommer. Also included is an engagement card for Ulrike Boehringer and Erich von
Baumbach and gas station receipts which use caricature images of a black
African face and the face of a snowman as an advertisement for an all-season
engine oil.
Box 3, Folder 5
C.H. Boehringer Sohn,
1963
Scope and Content Note
32 items (on 40 leaves), including 6 by R.P.:
correspondence between R. P. and the firm C.H. Boehringer Sohn (mainly
Siegfried Bene), the firm Henraux in Querceta di Seravezza, near Lucca in
Italy, two letters from Wolfgang Haber to Siegfried Bene and one to R.P. The
letters concern the book project
Gestein, particularly the texts by Max Richter
and Ernst Jünger; also honorariums and travel expenses of R.P.'s trips to
France and Ireland, also of the trip R.P. undertook together with Wolfgang
Haber to Southern Germany and Italy, including the visit to the quarry in
Carrara arranged for R.P. by the firm Henraux. Wolfgang Haber reports on the
trip to Carrara in his letter from Nov. 2 to Siegfried Bene.
Box 4, Folder 1
C.H. Boehringer Sohn,
1964
Scope and Content Note
36 items (on 38 leaves), including 11 by R.P.:
correspondence between R. P. and the firm C.H. Boehringer Sohn (mainly
Siegfried Bene) concerning travel expenses and honorariums related to R.P.'s
trip to Norway, together with Wolfgang Haber, and the book project
Gestein. Also included are letters between the
firms Basalt AG in Linz and C.H. Boehringer Sohn and a letter from Hille
Kleinstra to C.H. Boehringer Sohn mentioning an extensive article about R.P.
that Kleinstra wrote for
Foto. In his letter to R.P. from Aug. 13 Robert
Boehringer mentions R.P.'s portrait photographs of Clemens and Elisabeth
Sommer.
Box 4, Folder 2
C.H. Boehringer Sohn,
1965
Scope and Content Note
32 items (on 46 leaves), including 9 by R.P.: correspondence
between R. P. and the firm C.H. Boehringer Sohn (mainly Siegfried Bene) and
Robert Boehringer; also between the firm C.H. Boehringer Sohn (Siegfried Bene)
and Giovanni Mardersteig and Max Richter, concerning the book project
Gestein: editorial matters, including
typography, also travel expenses and honorarium. [See also: Box 4, F.-2 for
correspondence between R.P. and Max Richter concerning
Gestein.] Several letters concern R.P.'s
photographs for the book
Hospitalbauten in Europa aus zehn Jahrhunderten
by Dankwart Leistikow.
Box 4, Folder 3
C.H. Boehringer Sohn,
1966
Scope and Content Note
6 items, including 1 by R.P.: correspondence between R. P.
and the firm C.H. Boehringer Sohn (Siegfried Bene), Robert Boehringer and the
F. Bruckmann KG mainly concerning the book
Gestein, also reproductions of R.P.'s
photographs for Weidenfeld & Nicolson in London. The letter dated April 4
from Siegfried Bene to R.P. has a pen drawing on verso. R.P.'s invoice to C.H.
Boehringer Sohn, dated Dec. 12 is annotated.
Box 4, Folder 4
C.H. Boehringer Sohn,
undated items
Scope and Content Note
20 items (on 35 leaves): 6 letters, mostly drafts, from R.P.
to Ernst Boehringer, a letter from R.P. to Elisabeth Paatz, R.P.'s handwritten
list of photographs he took in Italy, a note by Heinrich M. Schwarz
acknowledging the receipt of a honorarium, R.P.'s short notes referring by
number to his photographs for Elisabeth Böhm, Heinrich M. Schwarz and Galavotti
[?]. Also 5 items concerning
Hohenstaufenburgen in Süditalien, including a 5
page editorial plan with the title "Arbeitsbericht (Vorschläge, Fragen, u.a.)"
stamped by the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome. Also included are 2 copies of
R.P.'s application for financial aid caused by losses suffered during an air
raid [incomplete], and 3 personal letters to R.P. by Julie Boehringer.
Box 4, Folder 5
C.H. Boehringer Sohn,
1966
Scope and Content Note
19 items: thank-you letters to C.H. Boehringer Sohn (chiefly
Siegfried Bene) for complimentary copies of the books
Bäume and
Gestein. From: Otto Ambros, Peter Bearth,
Folkert Bellstedt, Bibliothek des Max-Planck-Institut, Hans Dyckerhoff, Ernst
Emmerling, Heinrich Fassian, Hans Harms, Kurt Hege, Carl Georg Heise, Klaus
Hoffmann, S. Koechlin, Heribert Konzett, Klaus Otto Kühne, Fritz Lendner,
Alexander Rominger, O. Fr. Timmermann, Carl Wurster, and 1 unidentified.
Box 4, Folder 6
Brend' Amour, Simhart & Co.,
1961-1965
Scope and Content Note
27 items (on 28 leaves), including 13 by R.P. of
professional correspondence with the firm Brend' Amour, Simhart & Co.
Graphische Kunstanstalt in Munich (mainly Director Holzmayer) concerning the
printing of
Bäume.
Box 5, Folder 1
Donat de Chapeaurouge - J. Damschen +
Co.
Box 5, Folder 1
Chapeaurouge, Donat de,
1956
Scope and Content Note
1 letter by the art historian Donat de Chapeurouge to R.P.
regarding an order of photographs. On letterpress of Universität Tübingen,
Kunsthistorisches Institut.
Box 5, Folder 1
Dahlhoff, Walter,
1958
Scope and Content Note
2 letters from R.P. to Dahlhoff, dated 1957 and 1958 and 1
letter from Dahlhoff to R.P.; professional correspondence following the
rejection of a text Dahlhoff wrote for a book by R.P. [
Bilder aus der Landschaft zwischen Ruhr und
Möhne,
1957]
Box 5, Folder 1
Dambleff,
1951-1952
Scope and Content Note
1 postcard to R.P. and 2 business letters by R.P. to
Baurat Dambleff, Staatshochbauamt, Soest/Westf.
Box 5, Folder 1
Platten-Zentrale J. Damschen + Co.,
1956
Scope and Content Note
1 business letter following R.P.'s visit to the coal mine
Hugo (Zeche Hugo).
Box 5, Folder 2
Definitiv Kontroll-Buchhaltung A.G.,
1955-1960
Scope and Content Note
51 items of business correspondence to R.P., including 13
letters by R.P., some are annotated; 2 letters are from Erwin O. Haberfeld.
Box 5, Folder 3
Demag Aktiengesellschaft-Deutsche Bank A.G.
Box 5, Folder 3
Demag Aktiengesellschaft,
1955
Scope and Content Note
3 business letters, including 1 by R.P.
Box 5, Folder 3
Denz, Wolf-Herbert,
1960
Scope and Content Note
1 personal letter to R.P.
Box 5, Folder 3
Deutsche Bibliothek (Frankfurt am Main, Germany),
Sammlung Buchkunst,
1962 and 1963
Scope and Content Note
5 items, including 2 by R.P.: correspondence regarding
Bäume [1962] in the context of R.P.'s
participation in the competition [Wettbewerb] "Die schönsten deutschen Bücher",
organized by Deutsche Bibliothek, Sammlung Buchkunst in Frankfurt am Main. Two
letters are signed by Georg Kurt Schauer. With biographical information about
Giovanni Mardersteig and [Mr.] Leonhardt. Of the letter dated April 9, 1963
only the first page is present.
Box 5, Folder 3
Deutsche Bank,
1958-1959
Scope and Content Note
22 items of business correspondence, including 8 letters
by R.P.
Box 5, Folder 4
Deutsche Buch-Gemeinschaft-Deutsche Linoleum
Werke
Box 5, Folder 4
Deutsche Buch-Gemeinschaft,
1951 and 1957-1958
Scope and Content Note
13 items: correspondence with the publishing house
Deutsche Buch-Gemeinschaft , including 3 lettters by R.P.; regarding the
inclusion of R.P.'s photographs in the publications
Das Bild der Heimat, Deutschland [1951],
Die deutsche Küste [1957?] and
Die Waterkant [1958].
Box 5, Folder 4
Deutsche Dendrologische Gesellschaft,
,
1958
Scope and Content Note
1 business letter, signed by F. Boerner, written in
response to R.P. With a drawing and annotation.
Box 5, Folder 4
Deutsche Gesellschaft für
Photographie,
1955-1963
Scope and Content Note
19 items (22 leaves), including 9 items by R.P.:
correspondence between R.P. and D.G.Ph., mainly with L. Fritz Gruber, also with
Wolfgabg Eichler; also letters sent to D.G.Ph. from Helmut Gernsheim, Charles
E. Fraser in London and Hans-Heinrich Berning from the firm Robot-Foto Gmbh in
Düsseldorf. The letters provide insight into the process of nominating the
candidate for the culture prize and reflect R.P.'s opinion of the work by
photographers L. Fritz Gruber, Bill Brandt and August Sander. Also included are
carbon copies and ms. drafts of R.P.'s letters to the German Minister of
Interior (Bundesminister des Inneren), the President of D.G.Ph. Gerhard
Schröder, and the Regierungspräsident, concerning the culture prize; and a
congratulatory letter from the Regierungspräsident to R.P.
Box 5, Folder 4
Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Rettung
Schiffbrüchiger,
1952 and 1957
Scope and Content Note
4 items: 2 donor cards, a receipt, and a thank-you letter
to R.P.
Box 5, Folder 4
Deutsche Linoleum-Werke,
1953
Scope and Content Note
6 business letters, including 2 by R.P.
Box 5, Folder 5
Deutscher Kunstverlag,
,
1949-1959
Scope and Content Note
32 letters (on 33 leaves) between R.P. (9 letters) and the
publishing house; regarding the inclusion of R.P.'s photographs in several
publications, mainly
Oberrhein: Elsass, Breisgau, Ortenau [1959].
Box 5, Folder 6
Deutsche Spiegelglas A.G.,
1956-1964
Scope and Content Note
26 items: 25 letters (on 26 leaves) between R. P. (10 carbon
copies and 2 ms. ) and Deutsche Spiegelglas A.G. in Grünenplan near Hannover.
Includes a listing of 48 photographs commissioned from R.P. and 1 leaf with
numbers of photographs and slides titled "Grünenplan."
Box 5, Folder 7
Deutscher Spinnereimaschinenbau Ingolstadt -
Werkstätten J. Dickerhoff
Box 5, Folder 7
Deutscher Spinnereimaschinenbau
Ingolstadt,
1958-1966
Scope and Content Note
8 letters (on 9 leaves), including 4 letters by R.P. In
the letter dated Nov. 16, 1959, R.P. refers to an article on his photographic
work by Beaumont Newhall and addresses the influence his work had on applied
and commercial photography.
Box 5, Folder 7
Deutscher Werkbund West-Nord,
1953 and 1958
Scope and Content Note
2 business letters to R.P.
Box 5, Folder 7
Werkstätten J. Dickerhoff,
1948-1958
Scope and Content Note
25 items, including 10 by R.P.: business correspondence
between the furniture manufacturer Josef Dickerhoff in Bochum and R.P.
Box 5, Folder 8
Dinker (Kirchengemeinde : Hamm, North
Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) - Du Selbst
Box 5, Folder 8
Dinker (Kirchengemeinde : Hamm, North
Rhine-Westphalia, Germany),
1953-1958
Scope and Content Note
8 items: business correspondence between Father Dietwald
Wilms of the Kirchengemeinde Dinker in Hamm/Westfalen and R.P. (2 letters).
Box 5, Folder 8
Dittmann, Carl,
1956
Scope and Content Note
1 business letter from Carl Dittmann & Co.
Spezialfabrik für Oberflächen und Galvanotechnik in Karlsruhe.
Box 5, Folder 8
Stadt Dortmund Verkehrs- und
Presseamt,
1955-1956
Scope and Content Note
2 business letters to R.P. and 1 order form.
Box 5, Folder 8
Dortmunder Union Brückenbau-Aktiengesellschaft
Werk Dortmund,
1951-1952
Scope and Content Note
5 letters, including 3 by R.P.; concerning photographs of
the coal mine Germania (Zeche Germania) in Dortmund-Marten.
Box 5, Folder 8
Dreydorff, Hans,
1956
Scope and Content Note
1 business letter.
Box 5, Folder 8
Du Selbst,
1965
Scope and Content Note
3 items: 2 business letters from the editor of the magazin
Du Selbst, eine Zeitschrift für Frauen, and 1
response by R.P.
Box 6, Folder 1
George Eastman House-Ch. Erich
Box 6, Folder 1
George Eastman House,
1960
Scope and Content Note
1 letter from Beaumont Newhall to R.P. ; asking for
photographs for the exhibition "Photography at mid-century".
Box 6, Folder 1
Eckert, F.,
1948
Scope and Content Note
1 item: a personal letter from a professor at the
university in Istanbul, former employer at Glaswerke Ruhr in Germany.
Box 6, Folder 1
Ehmcke, Rainer,
1964
Scope and Content Note
2 items (3 leaves) of correspondence between R.P. and the
photographer Ehmcke; exchanging their views on contemporary photography.
Box 6, Folder 1
Eramo, E.,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Draft of a letter by R.P. to E[?] Eramo. In the context of
Helmut Gernsheim's collection of photographs, R.P. writes about the photograph
of a pinecone [by Ansel Adams?], and mentions the draft of a book with the
title
Oliven.
Box 6, Folder 1
Erfurth, Annemarie,
1964
Scope and Content Note
2 items: correspondence between Annemarie Erfurth,
daughter of the photographer Hugo Erfurth, and R.P.; regarding a recently
opened exhibition of Hugo Erfurth's work in Siegen and the proposal of an
individual exhibition of work by R.P.
Box 6, Folder 1
Erfurth, Helene,
1966
Scope and Content Note
1 item (2 leaves): a personal letter by Helene Erfurth,
wife of the photographer Hugo Erfurth, to R.P.
Box 6, Folder 1
Erfurth, Hugo,
1946-1947
Scope and Content Note
3 personal letters by Hugo Erfurth to R.P.; providing
insight into H.E.'s life during the first two years after the war. [Letters are
fragile. Photocopies made on acid-free paper.]
Box 6, Folder 1
Erich, Ch. ,
1959
Scope and Content Note
2 items of private correspondence between R.P. and Father
Ch. Erich from Hamburg; concerning
Deutsche Wasserburgen [1957].
Box 6, Folder 2
Essener Steinkohlenbergwerke,
1950-1961
Scope and Content Note
41 items: business correspondence, including 18 letters by
R.P. (some annotated) and 2 leaves with ms. notes.
Box 6, Folder 3
Esso Petroleum Company- Evangelische Buchgemeinde,
Stuttgart
Box 6, Folder 3
Esso Petroleum Company, ltd,
1958
Scope and Content Note
3 items. Business correspondence.
Box 6, Folder 3
Ettinger, Max,
1955-1958
Scope and Content Note
6 personal letters, including 1 by R.P. with Max Ettinger
[not the German composer].
Box 6, Folder 3
Evangelische Aufbauschule
Espelkamp-Mittwald,
1955
Scope and Content Note
6 business letters, including 3 by R.P.
Box 6, Folder 3
Evang.-Reformierte Gemeinde Elberfeld,
1960
Scope and Content Note
1 business letter to R.P.
Box 6, Folder 3
Evangelische Buchgemeinde (Stuttgart,
Germany),
1964
Scope and Content Note
1 business letter by R.P.
Box 6, Folder 4
Fachstelle für Jugendphotographie e.V. , Frankfurt
a. M., - Brunhilde Flothmann
Box 6, Folder 4
Fachstelle für Jugendphotographie (Frankfurt,
Germany),
1964
Scope and Content Note
3 items: 2 letters to R.P. from Siegfried Remann and the
list of participants of a conference held May 9-14, 1964 in Remscheid (R.P. was
one of the speakers). Remann mentions the photographers Dieter Steffen and
Helmut Kiene.
Box 6, Folder 4
Fagus-Werk (Alfeld, Lower Saxony,
Germany),
1952-1957
Scope and Content Note
6 business letters to R.P.
Box 6, Folder 4
Farbenfabriken Bayer,
1951
Scope and Content Note
1 business letter to R.P.
Box 6, Folder 4
Favelo N.V. Fotografische Apparatuur
(Holland),
1962
Scope and Content Note
1 business letter to R.P.
Box 6, Folder 4
Feische, J. (Werkstatt für
Mosaikmöbel),
1961
Scope and Content Note
1 business letter by R.P. to J. Feische in
Hellefeld/Sauerland.
Box 6, Folder 4
Fermata-Gesellschaft,
1962
Scope and Content Note
2 order forms (on 3 leaves) with orders to R.P.
Box 6, Folder 4
Fischer, Wend,
1964-1965
Scope and Content Note
5 items: correspondence between R.P. (2 letters) and the
editor of
Werk und Zeit, a monthly publication of
Deutscher Werkbund; concerning reprinting a lecture by R.P.
Box 6, Folder 4
Fiswick, Sebald,
1947
Scope and Content Note
1 item: a receipt from the sculptor Sebald Fiswick.
Box 6, Folder 4
Flemming, Hans Walter,
1959
Scope and Content Note
2 items: professional correspondence, including 1 by
R.P.
Box 6, Folder 4
Florin, Bernhard,
1953,
1965
Scope and Content Note
5 business letters, including 2 by R.P.
Box 6, Folder 4
Flothmann, Brunhilde,
1957
Scope and Content Note
4 items: a letter from the photographer and former
employee asking R.P. to verify her past employment, and carbon copies of a
response letter and 2 formal statements by R.P.
Box 6, Folder 5
Focal Press Ltd.-Sofie Fohn
Box 6, Folder 5
Focal Press,
1950-1956
Scope and Content Note
8 items: professional correspondence between the editor of
Focal Press A. Kraszna-Krausz and R.P.; concerning Bill Brandt's book
Camera in London [1948]; including R.P.'s
opinion of Brandt and the entry on R.P. in the
Encyclopedia of photography [1956]; with
annotations.
Box 6, Folder 5
Förderanlagen u. Maschinenbau GmbH
Wilhelmshaven,
1955-1956
Scope and Content Note
8 items: business correspondence, including 5 by R.P.
Box 6, Folder 5
Fohn, Sophie,
1960
Scope and Content Note
4 items: 3 letters by the art collector and wife of the
artist Emanuel Fohn, and a response letter by R.P.; discussing R.P.'s portrait
photographs of Emanuel Fohn. R.P. also expresses his opinion about portrait
photography and Emanuel Fohn's work.
Box 6, Folder 6
Museum Folkwang Essen -
Fotorama
Box 6, Folder 6
Museum Folkwang Essen,
1943-1956
Scope and Content Note
22 items of correspondence, including 12 carbon copies of
items by R.P. The receipt dated Sept. 24, 1943 concerns salvaging negatives of
art work in the collection of the Folkwang Museum and in the collection Henke,
and has a pencil drawing on verso. Letters dated 1949 concern mainly ownership
issues and the acquisition by the Museum Folkwang of negatives owned by R.P.
Letters dated 1952-1956 discuss exhibitions and lectures by R.P.
Box 6, Folder 6
Folkwangschulen Essen,
undated
Scope and Content Note
1 business letter to R.P., annotated on verso.
Box 6, Folder 6
Foto Prisma, Stuttgart,
1965-1966
Scope and Content Note
9 items (on 10 leaves) of correspondence between the
editor Heinrich Freytag and R.P. (2 letters); providing insight into R.P.'s
opinion about the standardization of the size of photographic paper with DIN
[Deutsche Industrienorm], and mentioning the reprinting of R.P.'s text "Vom
Sinn der Photographie und der Verantwortlichkeit des Photografen" in
Foto Prisma. Also an undated handwritten note
by R.P. regarding negatives of his photographs which were published by
Foto Prisma.
Box 6, Folder 6
Fotorama, Antwerp,
1958
Scope and Content Note
6 items, including 3 by R.P. ; asking R.P. to write an
article about his philosophy of photography. The letter dated March 31, 1959
includes an autobiographical note by R.P.
Box 6, Folder 7
Charles E. Fraser - Karl Fütterer
Box 6, Folder 7
Fraser, Charles E.,
1960-1962
Scope and Content Note
4 items: 1 letter from the English photographer to R.P., 2
letters from R.P. to Fraser, and a photographic Christmas and New Year's card
from the Fraser family. Professional correspondence concerning portrait
photographs Fraser took of R.P. at the 1961 Photokina [International Photo- and
Cine Exhibition] in Cologne; with a mention of a lecture R.P. gave on Jan. 27,
1956 [
Versuch einer Einordnung der Photographie, in:
Schrift 6 der Folkwangschule Essen, (1958)].
Box 6, Folder 7
Freckmann, Karl,
1960
Scope and Content Note
6 items, including 3 by R.P.: correspondence with the
architect and author; discussing Freckmann's architectural theory and his
controversial book
Proportionen in der Architektur [1965]. The
letters provide insight into the difficulties Freckmann encountered trying to
publish his work. R.P. expresses his view of contemporray architecture; also
recommends to Freckmann Otto Schubert's
Gesetz der Baukunst [1954] and George Lesser's
Gothic cathedrals and sacred geometry [1957].
Box 6, Folder 7
Frieser, Hellmut,
1957
Scope and Content Note
3 items, including 1 by R.P.: correspondence with Hellmut
Frieser from AGFA Aktiengesellschaft für Photofabrikation. R.P. seeks financial
support for his book project about Hugo Erfurth. His letter provides insight
into his appreciation of Erfurth's portrait photography. Frieser mentions
Erfurth's photographic work in the collection of the AGFA Museum in Leverkusen,
also a privately owned portrait of the artist G. Lührig.
Box 6, Folder 7
Freytag, Heinrich,
1956-1957,
1964
Scope and Content Note
4 items, including 2 by R.P.: correspondence regarding
R.P.'s participation in the first photography show at the Venice Biennial.
Box 6, Folder 7
Friedburg, Gertrud,
1950
Scope and Content Note
1 letter by R.P. who writes on Herman Friedman's
Wissenschaft und Symbol [1948)]; mentions the
photographer Bill Brandt and his
Camera in London [1948], asking to send him a
copy; and mentions the book projects:
Lob des Rheingaus [1953],
Soest [1957] and
Rund um den Möhnesee [1951?].
Box 6, Folder 7
Friedmann, Hermann,
1956
Scope and Content Note
1 letter by R.P.: confirming the date for a lecture on
photography he gave on July 6, 1956.
Box 6, Folder 7
Fritz, Rolf,
1953
Scope and Content Note
1 letter signed by Rolf [Fritz?] typed on the letterhead
of the Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Dortmund, Schloss Cappenberg bei
Lünen, regarding the distribution of R.P.'s book on the castle in Cappenberg [
Schloss Cappenberg, 1953].
Box 6, Folder 7
Fütterer, Karl,
1950-1952
Scope and Content Note
5 items, including 4 by R.P. : correspondence, mainly
invoices, with Karl Fütterer at the Ernährungsministerium [Department of
Nutrition] in Düsseldorf, concerning R.P.'s photographs of architectural sites
in Reichswald and of furniture designed by Hugo Kükelhaus.
Box 6, Folder 8
Ernst Fuhrmann - Fürstenberg
Porzellanmanufaktur
Box 6, Folder 8
Fuhrmann, Ernst,
1945-1946,
1954,
undated
Scope and Content Note
8 items, including 3 by R.P. Ernst Fuhrmann's letters from
1945 and 1946, sent from New York, describe his life after emigrating to the
United States. His letters convey strong feelings of intellectual isolation and
his disappointment in American society; Fuhrmann also mentions mutual friends,
including Albert Lange, Gertrud Osthaus-Stockforth, his wife and son Arend
Fuhrmann, the chemist Torolf, and Johannes Molzahn. Fuhrmann's letters from
1954 concern a book planned to be published privately in Hamburg [
Neue Wege, 1954-1966], for which he is asking
R.P. to find prospective buyers. R.P. mentions an exhibition of his photographs
in Chapel Hill (N.C.), and the artist Hugo Kükelhaus. [Pre-war correspondence
between R.P. and Ernst Fuhrmann is filed in Box 1, F. 2].
Box 6, Folder 8
Fuhrmann, Arend,
1956-1966
Scope and Content Note
7 items (on 8 leaves), including 2 by R.P.: correspondence
with the artist and son of Ernst Fuhrmann, Arend Fuhrmann in Carona, near
Lugano in Switzerland, regarding financial contributions for a privately
printed book as a birthday present for Ernst Fuhrmann. Arend Fuhrmann mentions
several exhibitions of his work.
Box 6, Folder 8
Fürst, Viktor,
1956-1962
Scope and Content Note
11 items (on 13 leaves), including 6 by R.P.:
correspondence with the Austrian art historian and photographer, in London and
Rome. They exchange their views on modern photography and on teaching art and
art history as a science, and comment on each other's photographic work. Fürst
mentions the art historians Jacob Burckhardt and Josef Strzygowski; travel for
book projects to Italy and Bosnia and Hercegovina; and unsuccessful efforts to
publish his books in England. R.P. complains about the difficult relationship
with Walter Paatz during their trip to Italy and criticizes Paatz's teaching
methods; expresses his opinion about modern photography, commenting adversely
on its current development as charlatanism; presents his opinion of Fürst's
photographs of architecture published in his book on Versailles [
Versailles, 1950]; and mentions the
photographer Emil Otto Hoppé and the architect Fritz Schupp. Of R.P.'s letter
from Nov. 12, 1956 only one leaf is present.
Box 6, Folder 8
Porzellanmanufaktur Fürstenberg,
1962-1963
Scope and Content Note
4 items, including 1 by R.P.: correspondence between R.P.
and Hans-Joachim Beyer, the director of the porcelain manufacturing firm in
Fürstenberg an der Weser. The letters concern a commission for R.P. In his
letter R.P. explains the artistic intention in his photographs of porcelain.
Box 7, Folder 1
Gottfried Ganssauge-Hans Gebhart
Box 7, Folder 1
Ganssauge, Gottfried,
1962
Scope and Content Note
2 items: personal letters between R.P. and his former
fellow student at the Kreuzgymnasium in Dresden, the architect Gottfried
Ganssauge. R.P. mentions his previous work experience with architects Walter
Gropius, Otto Haesler, Hans Schwippert, Paul Schneider-Esleben, Fritz Schupp,
and Gerhard Graubner.
Box 7, Folder 1
Gärtner, Robert,
1960,
undated
Scope and Content Note
3 personal/professional letters (on 4 leaves). The letter
by R.P. is dated Sept. 20, 1960. The 2 letters from Gärtner to R.P. are
undated; one provides R.P. with electrical details related to photography.
Box 7, Folder 1
Gaessler, Siglinde,
1966
Scope and Content Note
2 personal letters to R.P.
Box 7, Folder 1
Gebhart, Hans,
1957
Scope and Content Note
1 letter from R.P. to the numismatist Hans Gebhart, in
which R.P. comments on two of his books:
Schloss Cappenberg (1950) and a recently
published book to which R.P. refers as an "attempt at documentary landscape
photography" (Versuch einer dokumentarischen Landschaftsfotografie) [
Bilder aus der Landschaft zwischen Ruhr und
Möhne
?, 1957 or
Soest, 1957].
Box 7, Folder 2
Gernsheim, Helmut,
1956-1959
Scope and Content Note
44 items (on 47 leaves), including 22 by R.P.:
correspondence between R.P. and the German-born British photographer,
collector, and photographic historian. The letters convey their vivid exchange
of views on photography and other photographers: Man Ray, László Moholy-Nagy,
Florence Henry, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Bill Brandt, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward
Steichen, Eugène Atget, Eduard Steinert and Erich Salomon. They discuss their
current projects and the relationship between photography and painting. In his
letter from Dec. 1, 1958, Gernsheim relates photographs by R.P. , Helmar Lerski
and Erna Lendvai-Dircksen to New Objectivity, and mentions in this context his
own books
New photo vision,
Beautiful London and
Masterpieces of Victorian photography, and Karl
Blossfeld's
Urformen der Kunst. Of particular interest is
R.P.'s letter from Dec. 6, 1958, in which he describes his concept of
atmosphere in photography as a formal expression [" ... Stimmung eine Funktion
der Form .."] and writes about his book
Im Wald [1945]. In his letter from Jan. 14,
1959, R.P. mentions the two 1928 editions of
Die Welt ist schön. In his letter from Jan. 29,
1959, Gernsheim comments on an article about his collection of photographs
published in
Kunstwerk. Two letters from Gernsheim to his
wife concern a daguerreotype attributed by R.P. to Carl Ferdinand Stelzner.
Gernsheim letter also mentions his professional contacts with Beaumont Newhall,
Ansel Adams and Rube Goldberg.
Box 7, Folder 3
Gernsheim, Helmut,
1960-1966
Scope and Content Note
30 items (on 38 leaves), including 6 by R.P.: this folder
continues correspondence between R.P. and Gernsheim contained in folder 2. Both
discuss their concepts of photography, comment on current trends in
photography, especially in commercial photography in Germany; and exchange
their opinions about candidates for the annual culture prize of the Deutsche
Gesellschaft für Photographie, especially Otto Steinert, August Sander and L.
Fritz Gruber. In his letter from Jan. 1, 1961, Gernsheim relates the work of
the American photographer Paul Strand to New Objectivity. Gernsheim's letters
frequently concern his failed attempts to establish a museum of photography in
Cologne, and involvement with documentary television programs. In his letter
from Jan. 20, 1960, Gernsheim comments on the current political situation and
on anti-Semitism in Germany. Several letters concern Gernsheim's offer to
acquire R.P.'s photographic estate, including all negatives, and to integrate
it with the Gernsheim collection in Austin, Texas. Of Gernsheim's letter from
Dec. 14, 1965, only leaves 1 and 2 are present.
Box 7, Folder 4
Gesellschaft Deutscher Lichtbildner-Glasbau Heinrich
Hahn
Box 7, Folder 4
Gesellschaft Deutscher Lichtbildner,
1949
Scope and Content Note
3 items, including 1 by R.P.: correspondence with Erich
Angenendt concerning R.P.'s participation as member of the jury and in
exhibitions organized by the Gesellschaft Deutscher Lichtbildner.
Box 7, Folder 4
Gesellschaft für Technik und Wirtschaft
(Dortmund, Germany),
1956
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to R.P. concerning a lecture R.P. was invited to
give at the Gesellschaft für Technik und Wirtschaft in Dortmund on the topic
"Wirklichkeit und Idee der Fotographie" [Reality and the idea of photography].
With a mention of the architect W. Schwarz.
Box 7, Folder 4
Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Spektrochemie und
angewandten Spektroskopie (Dortmund, Germany),
1962
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to R.P. concerning photographs of the new
building of the Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Spektrochemie und angewandten
Spektroskopie in Dortmund. Annotated by R.P.
Box 7, Folder 4
Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks-Aktien-Gesellschaft.
Gruppe Bochum,
1951-1952
Scope and Content Note
3 letters to R.P., including 1 receipt, regarding
photographs of coal mines, commissioned by the Gelsenkirchener
Bergwerks-Aktien-Gesellschaft, Gruppe Bochum. With a mention of the architect
Fritz Schupp.
Box 7, Folder 4
Gesine,
1958
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to R.P. signed "Gesine" and dated Nov. 18, 1958.
Box 7, Folder 4
Gevaert Photo-Producten N.V.,
1962
Scope and Content Note
2 business letters to R.P. from Gevaert Photo-Producten
N.V. in Antwerp, including 1 copyright statement signed by R.P.
Box 7, Folder 4
Gewerkschaft Auguste Victoria,
1954-1955
Scope and Content Note
2 letters, including 1 expense report, regarding R.P.'s
photos of industrial sites.
Box 7, Folder 4
Gieseking, Franz Klemens,
1953
Scope and Content Note
2 business letters, including 1 by R.P., from the editor
of
Münstersche Zeitung.
Box 7, Folder 4
Gieselmann, Reinhard,
1955
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to R.P. from the architect in Ludwigshafen,
regarding an enlargement of a photograph R.P. took of a desk designed by
Gieselmann.
Box 7, Folder 4
Glasbau Heinrich Hahn,
1952-1955
Scope and Content Note
10 items of business correspondence with the firm in
Frankfurt am Main, including 3 by R.P., regarding photographs R.P. took of a
showcase at the hotel Kaiserhof in Essen.
Box 7, Folder 5
Glas Forum (Schorndorf, Baden-Württemberg,
Germany),
1956
Scope and Content Note
3 letters, including 1 by R.P., with the editor Robert
Jeserich, regarding photographs by R.P. used to illustrate an article by Dr.
Völcker.
Box 7, Folder 5
Glaswerke Ruhr (Essen, Germany),
1951
Scope and Content Note
4 items, including 2 by R.P.: letters concerning
reproduction of R.P.'s photograph "Herstellung von Konservengläsern".
Box 7, Folder 5
Verlag Glückauf,
1956
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to R.P. concerning copyright payment for a
photograph by R.P. included in the book
Kristall, ein Buch für den Bergman [1956].
Box 7, Folder 5
Gebr. Gockel,
1952
Scope and Content Note
1 estimate of a roof repair job for R.P.
Box 7, Folder 5
Goerler [?],
1962
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to R.P., written in Rome on Jan. 17, 1962.
Box 7, Folder 5
Goerttler, Kurt,
1954-1960
Scope and Content Note
14 items (on 15 leaves), including 5 by R.P.: personal/
professional correspondence between R.P. and professor of anatomy Kurt
Goerttler and [his daughter?] Elke. The letters concern a lecture on
photography Kurt Goerttler asked R.P. to give in Freiburg and plans for an
exhibition of R.P.'s photographic work. Included is a short outline of the
lecture, R.P.'s description of his concept of photography, a mention of Dr.
[Wolfgang?] Gurlitt, and 2 lithographed cards, one from Fritz and Eva Körner.
Also included is 1 engagement announcement.
Box 7, Folder 5
Goerttler, Victor,
1966
Scope and Content Note
1 personal letter to R.P. by the veterinarian in Jena.
With a mention of Carola Abel.
Box 7, Folder 5
Th. Goldschmidt A.-G.,
1952-1956
Scope and Content Note
17 items (on 18 leaves), including 7 by R.P., of
correspondence with Th. Goldschmidt A.G. in Essen, mainly Theo Goldschmidt and
Curt Edeling, regarding photographs R.P. took of Theo Goldschmidt's private
residence and of the firm Th. Goldschmidt AG. in Essen. In his letter from June
25, 1956, R.P. writes about his photographs of industrial sites.
Box 7, Folder 5
Goldberg, Rube,
1959-1960
Scope and Content Note
2 letters from the American cartoonist in Philadelphia to
R.P. regarding an exchange of prints of their work. With a mention of Helmut
Gernsheim.
Box 7, Folder 6
Ernst Gosebruch - Ali Grünberg
Box 7, Folder 6
Gosebruch, Ernst,
1952-1960
Scope and Content Note
8 items (on 9 leaves), including 2 by R.P. of
personal/professional correspondence: 3 letters from the art historian and
former director of the Museum Folkwang Essen Ernst Gosebruch to R.P., an
obituary for Ernst Gosebruch, and letters between R.P. and Ernst Gosebruch's
widow Dora Gosebruch and son Rainer. The correspondence between R.P. and Dora
and Rainer Gosebruch concern Ernst Gosebruch's time at the Museum Folkwang
Essen. Of the letter by R.P. from Nov. 9, 1960 to Rainer Gosebruch, only the
first leaf is present.
Box 7, Folder 6
Gräfe und Unzer Verlag,
1962
Scope and Content Note
3 items, including 1 by R.P.: correspondence with the
Gräfe und Unzer Verlag in Munich, regarding R.P.'s photographs of churches in
Breslau and in Silesia to be used in a book publication and in a calendar for
the year 1963.
Box 7, Folder 6
Graphische Betriebe W. Girardet,
1948
Scope and Content Note
1 business letter and 1 telegram to R.P. from Graphische
Betriebe W. Girardet in Essen.
Box 7, Folder 6
Graubner, Gerhard,
1953-1958
Scope and Content Note
5 items, including 2 by R.P.: correspondence between R.P.
and the architect from the Technische Hochschule in Hannnover, concerning
R.P.'s commission to photograph a theater building in Bochum [Schauspielhaus
Bochum] and a community center in Mühlheim [Stadthalle Mühlheim].
Box 7, Folder 6
Greischel, Walther,
1953-1954
Scope and Content Note
5 items, including 2 by R.P.: correspondence between R.P.
and the director of the Landesmuseum der Provinz Westfalen in Münster, Walther
Greischel, concerning R.P.'s assistance in the search for a professional
photographer for the museum in Münster, also sharing their philosophical views
on photography. In his letter from Nov. 3, 1953 Greischel comments on R.P.'s
text on photography ["
Versuch einer Einordung der Fotographie"
issued in:
Schrift 6 der Folkwangschule Essen, Essen
1958].
Box 7, Folder 6
Gropius, Walter,
1961
Scope and Content Note
2 letters, including 1 by R.P. regarding reprints of
R.P.'s photographs of the Fagus Werk in Alfeld/Leine [in:
Walter Gropius und das Faguswerk, 1961].
Box 7, Folder 6
Gross, Else R.,
1961-1962
Scope and Content Note
5 letters from Else R. Gross to R.P. concerning mainly her
historical study of the German Diplomat Karl Friedrich Reinhard [
Karl Friedrich Reinhard, 1761-1837, 1961];
also responding to R.P.'s inquiry about the German diplomat and author
Alexander von Villers (1812-1880) in the context of Viller's published
correspondence
Briefe eines Unbekannten; with a mention of
Jacob Burckhardt.
Box 7, Folder 6
Grünberg, Ali [?]
,1950 and undated
Scope and Content Note
2 lettters: one in black ink, dated Sept. 19, 1959 and
signed: Ali Grünberg; the other in pencil (on 3 leaves), unsigned but clearly
by the same hand, includes a drawing of a cat and the neatly calligraphed title
"Vom Catz, der einmal Löwe sein wollte, oder die kleine Menschlichkeit."
Box 7, Folder 7
L. Fritz Gruber - Gutenberg Gesellschaft
Box 7, Folder 7
Gruber, L. Fritz,
1957-1963
Scope and Content Note
26 items (on 27 leaves), including 11 by R.P.:
correspondence with the photography collector and director of the international
photography exhibition
Photokina; also 1 letter from Gruber to Agnes
R.P. The letters concern Man Ray's and R.P.'s show at the
Photokina 1958, and Gruber's article about
R.P. published by the Swiss magazine
Camera [1960]. There is also a mention of a
gold medal awarded to R.P. at the Magnum exhibition, shown as part of theVenice
Biennial. R.P.'s letter from July 1, 1960 includes a list of his publications
and exhibitions compiled for the
Photokina [the letter mentions a biographical
note not present in the archive]. Several letters detail R.P.' s and Gruber's
involvement as board members of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie.
Both exchange their opinions about the selection process of candidates for the
annual culture prize. R.P. expresses his opinion about the photographic work by
August Sander and mentions an article about Sander published in the magazine
Du. Gruber mentions Dr. Eichler's
recommendation of
Edith Weyde as a
candidate for the culture prize for her work on the copyrapid process, paving
the way toward the polaroid process.
Box 7, Folder 7
Gundermann, Leo,
1954
Scope and Content Note
2 letters, one by the photographer Leo Gundermann and one
by R.P., concerning their professional experience with the firm Imago [in the
east sector of Germany]. [The letter by R.P. fragile. Photocopy made on acid
free paper].
Box 7, Folder 7
Gurlitt, Hildebrand,
1948
Scope and Content Note
1 personal letter to R.P. by the art historian, typed on
letterhead of the Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen in Düsseldorf;
describing the fate of Gurlitt's family after the end of the war.
Box 7, Folder 7
Gutehoffnungshütte,
1950
Scope and Content Note
2 items, including 1 by R.P.: correspondence regarding a
photograph R.P. took in the 1930s at the Gutehoffnungshütte, Werk Sterkrade in
Oberhausen.
Box 7, Folder 7
Gutenberg-Gesellschaft,
1952-1961
Scope and Content Note
3 letters from the Gutenberg-Gesellschaft in Mainz to R.P.
soliciting his membership. Memership card for 1960-1961.
Box 7, Folder 8
Wolfgang Haber-Walter Hege
Box 7, Folder 8
Haber, Wolfgang,
1961
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to R.P. by the dendrologist Wolgang Haber
regarding the text and the succession of photographs for the book
Bäume (1962).
Box 7, Folder 8
Hajek-Halke, Heinz,
1960
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to R.P. by the photographer Heinz Hajek-Halke
congratulating R.P. for receiving the culture prize of the Deutsche
Gesellschaft für Photographie.
Box 8, Folder 1
Heise, Carl Georg,
1944-1949
Scope and Content Note
[Pre-war correspondence with Carl Georg Heise is filed in
Box 1, F. 3; correspondence between Carl Georg Heise and Agnes Renger-Patzsch
is filed in Box 15, F. 9]. 29 items (on 32 leaves), including 3 by R.P., 2
letters from Hildegard Heise to R.P., and a card with a woodcut
Abteilung der Strahlenpflanzen by Paul Klee.
Correspondence between R.P. and the German art historian and his wife and
amateur photographer Hildegard Heise. Most of the letters by Heise are written
in Sütterlin script and need further analysis. Heise's letters from 1944
provide insight into his writing and editing activities in Berlin during the
war, and mention the artist Alfred Mahlau. Heise's letters concern his
activities as the director of the Kunsthalle in Hamburg and his art historical
writings. Heise mentions his book about Aby Warburg, his encounter with Oskar
Kokoschka and Henry Moore in London, the German sculptor Robert Ittermann and
R.P.'s photographs of the cathedral in Aachen [
Der Dom zu Aachen]. Heise and R.P. exchange
their views on photography in the context of R.P.'s work on the book projects
Lob des Rheingaus [1953] and
Paderborn [1949]. R.P. comments on Ernst
Jünger's book
Strahlungen [1949] and mentions the art
historian Francis Donald Klingender.
Box 8, Folder 2
Heise, Carl Georg,
1950-1955
Scope and Content Note
47 items (on 51 leaves), including 16 by R.P. to Carl Georg
Heise and Hildegard Heise, as well as 7 letters from Hildegard Heise to R.P.,
also 1 personal letter from Hildegard Heise to Agnes Renger-Patzsch. The
letters concern articles by Heise and R.P., including Heise's article for
Camera in Lucerne, R.P.'s article for
Prisma, R.P.'s books
Lob des Rheingaus and
Schloss Cappenberg, as well as a book about the
Benedictine abbey Corvey in Höxter, and about the residence of the Krupp family
in Essen [
Villa Hügel, 1954]. Heise asks R.P. to
contribute photographs of industrial objects for a new edition of Karl
Scheffler's
Lesebuch aus dem Handwerk. R.P. presents his
opinion on Bernhard Berenson's
Aesthetik und Geschichte and on portrait
photographs by Henri Cartier-Bresson and Hugo Erfurth, and mentions commissions
for industrial firms and exhibitions of his photographic work in Marl, Freiburg
and Essen. The letters between R.P. and Hildegard Heise concern technical
details of photography and guidelines on how to establish a darkroom at home.
Hildegard Heise describes her impressions of the exhibition
Photokina 1954 held at the Landeskunstschule in
Hamburg.
Box 8, Folder 3
Heise, Carl Georg,
1956-1959
Scope and Content Note
53 items (on 68 leaves), including 15 letters by R.P. to
Carl Georg Heise and 1 letter from R.P. to Hildegard Heise, also 3 letters from
Hildegard Heise to R.P. and 1 humorous poem by Hildegard and Carl Georg Heise.
The letters discuss several of R.P.'s book projects, including
Hohenstaufenburgen in Süditalien, a landscape
book for the firm Siepmann [
Bilder aus der Landschaft zwischen Ruhr und
Möhne]
, a "Wald-Buch" [
Im Wald], books commissioned by Jenaer Glaswerk
Schott & Gen. and by Deutsche Bank in Mainz and Frankfurt, and
Bäume. Several letters concern a book project
with photographs of industrial spare parts for a cotton manufacturing plant.
R.P. writes about the relationship between photography and architecture, and
relates photography to philosophy and art. Heise reviews R.P.'s text
Architektur und Photographie and comments on
R.P.'s opinions on the architecture of Walter Gropius and Le Corbusier. Several
letters contain a discussion of the psychological aspects of composition in
R.P.'s photographic work. R.P. frequently mentions his efforts to find a
publisher for a book about Hugo Erfurth; and writes about his relationship to
the art historian Walter Paatz. [Other letters on the same topic are filed in
Box 2, F. 10 under: C.H. Boehringer Sohn, 1956].
Box 8, Folder 4
Heise, Carl Georg,
1960-1966
Scope and Content Note
47 items (on 56 leaves), including 12 by R.P., 3 letters by
Hildegard Heise to R.P., 1 letter from Hildegard Heise to Agnes Renger-Patzsch,
and a card from Carl Georg Heise to R.P. written on the verso of a photograph
made by Hildegard Heise. The letters concern R.P.'s book projects
Bäume,
Bilder aus der Landschaft zwischen Ruhr und
Möhne
,
Gestein, and a book about Hugo Erfurth. R.P.
mentions his lecturing activities in Dortmund and Munich. Heise frequently
expresses his opinion about R.P.'s photographic work, especially the portraits
of Ernst Boehringer. R.P. describes his aesthetic intentions for the book
Gestein and his concept of landscape
photography. R.P. comments critically on the proposal by Deutsche Gesellschaft
für Photographie to award the culture prize to August Sander.
Box 8, Folder 5
Daan Helfferich-Anton Henze
Box 8, Folder 5
Helfferich, Daan,
1960-1965
Scope and Content Note
6 items, including 2 by R.P., of correspondence with the
editor of the magazine
Foto; mentioning an article about R.P. and his
photographs of trees, published in
Foto [by Hille Kleinstra, issued Sept. 1964;
also see letter by Hille Kleinstra to C.H. Boehringer Sohn, Box 4, F. 1], an
article written by R.P. published in the August 1961 issue of
Foto; a camera R.P. bought in the Netherlands,
and discussing Helfferich's plan to publish a book with photographs of the Ruhr
Region. In the context of the book project, R.P. recommends photographs by
Heinrich Hauser. In his letter from Dec. 29, 1960 R.P. defines photography as
documentation. In his letter from Jan. 14 1965 Helfferich emphasizes the
influence of R.P. and the magazine
Foto on young photographers in the
Netherlands.
Box 8, Folder 5
Henneke, W.,
1957-1958
Scope and Content Note
3 items, including 1 by R.P.: correspondence with the
sister of Heinrich M. Schwarz, concerning Schwarz's death in a car accident
during the trip to Italy together with R.P. in 1957.
Box 8, Folder 5
Henraux Industria del marmo,
1963-1965
Scope and Content Note
4 letters to R.P. related to R.P.'s visit at the firm
Henraux in Querceta, Italy and his photographs for the book
Gestein.
Box 8, Folder 5
Henze, Anton,
1953
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to R.P. by the art historian, asking for
permission to include photos by R.P. in his book about ecclesiastical art [
Neue kirchliche Kunst, 1958; photographs of
ecclesiastical furniture designed by Hugo Kükelhaus].
Box 8, Folder 6
Helene Henze-Verlag Herder
Box 8, Folder 6
Henze, Helene,
1959-1967
Scope and Content Note
7 professional/personal letters (on 20 leaves), including
4 to Albert R.P. and 3 to Anges R.P. by the translator and text author. Henze's
letter from Feb. 14, 1959 includes her proofreading of a text on photography by
R.P. The letter from Dec. 26, 1961 contains a crirtical review of
Hohenstaufenburgen in Süditalien. Henze's
letters mention the sculptor Hugo Kükelhaus, Peter Bamm's book
An den Küsten des Lichts [1961], an article in
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeiting about the
artist Reinhold Köhler, also Thomas Bernhard and his book
Verstörung [1967].
Box 8, Folder 6
Herbermann, Clemens,
1951
Scope and Content Note
1 letter from R.P. to Clemens Herbermann in Soest
regarding reprints, including one of a coal mine tower. [Correspondence with
Herbermann related to
Westfalenspiegel is filed in Box 15, F-2].
Box 8, Folder 6
Verlag Herder,
1952,
1955
Scope and Content Note
11 items, including 4 by R.P.: correspondence between
R.P. and Verlag Herder (Christoph Kottrup) regarding the post-war
reconstruction of the destroyed photography archives (Lexikographisches
Institut) at the publishing house. The letters also provide information about
R.P.'s negatives which survived the war.
Box 8, Folder 7
Hergeröder-Bergwerksgesellschaft
Hibernia
Box 8, Folder 7
Hergeröder,
1952
Scope and Content Note
1 letter of recommendation from R.P. to Miss Hergeröder
[in Bielefeld] regarding his former student Christa Gränitz.
Box 8, Folder 7
H. Herrmann Werkstätten für Möbel und
Innenausbau,
1955
Scope and Content Note
2 letters, including 1 by R.P. regarding photographs of
furniture designed by H. Herrmann for Stadtsparkasse am Westfalendamm [city
bank] in Dortmund.
Box 8, Folder 7
Hertwig, Hugo,
1948 and 1951
Scope and Content Note
5 items, including 1 by R.P.: correspondence with the
author on therapeutics and medicinal plants and ecological activist. Hertwig
writes about several of his books and asks R.P. to provide illustrations for
some of them; and describes the everyday life and the intellectual climate in
Berlin and in Hamburg in the late 1940s. Hertwig mentions several artists and
writers, including Johannes Molzahn, Carl, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, [Ilse?]
Fehling, [Martin Andersen] Nexø, Arnold Zweig, Berthold Brecht, and his own
involvement with the Kulturbund; presents his "organic" vision of Germany as a
"blooming garden" based on the principle of the ecological balance between
plants, animals and man; mentions his book project
Das Gleichgewicht der Welt (organischer
Staatsaufbau)
and an NDR [Nortdeutscher Rundfunk] television program
presenting his ideas; and describes his professional contacts with Ernst
Fuhrmann in New York. [Typescripts of texts by Hertwig are filed in Box 21, F.
11].
Box 8, Folder 7
Heyer, Gustav Richard ,
1966
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to R.P. from the the internist and psychiatrist,
in which Heyer comments on the artistic quality of R.P.'s photographic work,
especially in the book
Bäume. [See also pre-war correspondence
between R.P. and Heyer in Box 1, F.4.]
Box 8, Folder 7
Bergwerksgesellschaft Hibernia,
1951-1952
Scope and Content Note
10 items, including 6 by R.P.: correspondence concerning
photographs by R.P. acquired by the Bergwerksgesellschaft Hibernia. In his
letter from March 15, 1952, R.P. mentions gathering photographs for an
exhibition in America.
Box 8, Folder 8
Paul Hilchenbach Kohlengrosshandlung -
Hoesch-Westfalenhütte AG
Box 8, Folder 8
Paul Hilchenbach Kohlengrosshandlung,
1955,
1956
Scope and Content Note
2 business letters from R.P. to the coal wholesaler Paul
Hilchenbach.
Box 8, Folder 8
Hinkel, Wilhelm,
1949
Scope and Content Note
3 items, including 2 by R.P.: correspondence concerning a
character reference (Leumundszeugnis) for Wilhelm Hinkel; includes a copy of
the reference written by R.P.
Box 8, Folder 8
Katholische Kirchengemeinde
Himmelpforten,
1949-1950
Scope and Content Note
3 items, including 2 by R.P.: business correspondence.
Box 8, Folder 8
Hoeltje, Georg,
1958
Scope and Content Note
6 items, including 3 by R.P.: correspondence between R.P.
and the architect from the Institut für Bau- und Kunstgeschichte at the
Technische Hochschule Hannover, regarding photographs by R.P.; also discussing
the possibility of a lecture by R.P.
Box 8, Folder 8
Hoesch-Westfalenhütte (Dortmund,
Germany),
1957,
1962
Scope and Content Note
8 items, including 2 by R.P.: correspondence between R.P.
and Miss Walter from the Hoesch-Westfalenhütte AG in Dortmund regarding the
lecture titled
Wesen und Aufgabe der Fotografie, given by
R.P. at the Hoesch-Westfalenhütte AG in Dortmund on November 13, 1957. With a
mention of Hermann Speer. Includes the invitation leaflet for the lecture.
Box 9, Folder 1
Helmut Hölder - Hundt-Verlag
Box 9, Folder 1
Hölder, Helmut,
1964-1966
Scope and Content Note
4 items, including 1 by R.P.: correspondence with the
geologist, who comments on R.P.'s book
Gestein.
Box 9, Folder 1
Hollnagel, Adolf,
1959
Scope and Content Note
2 personal letters between BDA [Bund Deutscher
Architekten] member Adolf Hollnagel in Greiswald and R.P.; Hollnagel mentions
the death of the folklorist Karl Theodor Weigel [1892-1953].
Box 9, Folder 1
Hölscher, Uvo,
1953
Scope and Content Note
3 items, including 1 by R.P.: correspondence with the
archeologist and architect Uvo Hölscher from the Technische Hochschule
Hannover, regarding photographs by R.P. published in the book
Norddeutsche Backsteindome.
Box 9, Folder 1
Höhle, Karl,
1955-1956
Scope and Content Note
4 items (on 5 leaves), including 2 by R.P.: personal
correspondence with a friend who plans to move to East Germany.
Box 9, Folder 1
Honerlas [?],
1950
Scope and Content Note
1 personal letter to R.P., includes a mention of the
photographer [Wilhelm] Castelli.
Box 9, Folder 1
Höver, Otto,
1957
Scope and Content Note
1 letter by R.P. to the [art historian Otto?] Höver, in
which R.P. mentions his concept of atmosphere in photography as a formal
expression [see also Box 7, F.2, under Gernsheim, Helmut] and refers to Josef
Pieper's book
Zucht und Mass as a source of inspiration.
Box 9, Folder 1
Holzmeister, Gunda,
1950,
1957-1962
Scope and Content Note
6 items (on 9 leaves), including 2 by R.P.: correspondence
with R.P.'s former apprentice [see also Box 1, F.6 under Lexer, Gunda] and a
woodcut New Year's card by Gunda Holzmeister's husband Clemens Holzmeister.
Gunda H. writes about her life as a photographer in Turkey, her experience with
color photography, mentions her photography book on Turkey [
Bilder aus Anatolien, 1955]; and describes her
impressions of R.P.'s book
Hohenstaufenburgen in Süditalien. R.P.
mentions writing the text for a book about photography, a project suggested to
him by Carl Georg Heise. In the context of a commission in Darmstadt, R.P.
recommends to Gunda H. the photographer [Werner?] Pfau from Mannheim.
Box 9, Folder 1
Hundhausen, Carl,
1954-1955
Scope and Content Note
5 items, including 3 by R.P.: correspondence with the
director of the Fried. Krupp Widia-Fabrik in Essen. R.P.'s mentions his
photographs for a book about the residence of the Krupp family in Essen [
Villa Hügel, 1954], comments on the book
Die drei Ringe by Gert von Klass; also states
that his book about the convent in Corvey was published shortly before
Christmas in 1954 [
Höxter und Corvey, 1954].
Box 9, Folder 1
Hüffer, Ernst,
1961
Scope and Content Note
1 item: a thank-you letter to R.P. from Ernst Hüffer in
Münster, for sending a book about "tragic events in December".
Box 9, Folder 1
Hundt Verlag,
1963
Scope and Content Note
1 letter by R.P. to the Hundt Verlag in Hattingen Ruhr,
regarding the progress of a book project.
Box 9, Folder 2
Imago Strahlbild-Verlag,
1949-1955
Scope and Content Note
28 items (on 32 leaves), including 12 by R.P.:
correspondence with the Imago Strahlbild-Verlag in Berlin (Marianne Lohse, Hans
Weitzmann) and in Radebeul (Kurt Heinrich); also 1 letter from R.P. to Wynand
Stockmann, and two authorization statements for Wynand Stockmann from R.P. The
letters concern mainly honorariums for R.P. for contributing his photographs to
books published by Imago Strahlbild-Verlag within the series
Imago-Strahlbildreihen:
Bilder aus dem Erzgebirge - Berge, Wälder und
Felder
and
Bilder aus dem Erzgebirge - Dörfer und Städte
[both published in 1952?, with texts by Dr. Siegfried? Sieber]. The letters
provide information about the limitated business relations between East and
West Germany in the early 1950s.
Box 9, Folder 3
Zentralblatt für Industriebau, Hannover - Christian
Adolf Isermeyer
Box 9, Folder 3
Zentralblatt für Industriebau (Hannover,
Germany),
1955
Scope and Content Note
2 items, including 1 by R.P.: correspondence with the
editor of the magazines
Zentralblatt für Industriebau and
Bauamt und Gemeindebau, Heymann-Berg. R.P.
mentions his business relations with the architects Fritz Schupp, Hans
Schwippert, and Paul Schneider-Esleben; and lists industrial sites he had
recently photographed.
Box 9, Folder 3
Industrie- und Handelskammer zu
Münster,
1954-1955
Scope and Content Note
7 items, including 3 by R.P.: correspondence between R.P.
and Industrie- und Handelskammer in Münster in Westfalen (Gieselmann,
Schlichter, Schweppe) regarding photographs R.P. took of the new building
designed by Hans Schwippert.
Box 9, Folder 3
Innenarchitektur,
1953-
Scope and Content Note
4 items, including 2 by R.P.: correspondence between R.P.
and the magazine
Die Innenarchitektur, Zeitschrift für Ausbau,
Einrichtung, Form und Farbe
, located in Essen and issued by Verlag
Ernst Heyer, concerning photographs by R.P. to be used as illustrations for an
article on glass in architecture (
Glas in der baugeschichtlichen Entwicklung).
Box 9, Folder 3
Insel-Verlag,
1955-1956
Scope and Content Note
16 items (on 18 leaves), including 8 by R.P.: business
correspondence between R. P. and the Insel-Verlag in Wiesbaden (Friedrich
Michael, Moritz Hauptmann, Hans Rösner). The letters concern a book project
about Hugo Erfurt. R.P. writes about the significance of Hugo Erfurth's
portrait photography; lists several artists portrayed by Erfurth, also mentions
the photographer David Octavius Hill. Included is a listing (3 leaves) of
portrait photographs by Hugo Erfurth received from Erfurth's widow Annemarie
Erfurth and sent to the Insel-Verlag. R.P. also writes about his work for the
book project
Hohenstaufenburgen in Süditalien.
Box 9, Folder 3
Institut für Film und Bild in Wissenschaft und
Unterricht,
1954-1956
Scope and Content Note
13 items (on 14 leaves), including 4 by R.P. :
correspondence between R.P. and the Institut für Film und Bild in Wissenschaft
und Unterricht in Munich (Lünenschloss, Lindemann) concerning photographs by
R.P. for the book projects
Karolingische Kunst,
Niederrhein,
Niederrheinische Bucht and
Gotik III.
Box 9, Folder 3
Institut für Spektrochemie und angewandte
Spektroskopie,
1962
Scope and Content Note
3 items, including 1 by R.P.: correspondence with H.
Kaiser at the Institut für Spektrochemie und angewandte Spektroskopie in
Dortmund, concerning photographs R.P. took of the instruments and the
facilities of the institute, and a portrait photograph of H. Kaiser.
Box 9, Folder 3
Isermeyer, Christian-Adolf,
1963
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to R.P. from the German art historian in Hamburg,
concerning the book
Bäume; with a mention of Carl Georg Heise.
Box 9, Folder 4
Lotte Jacobi - Ewald Jung
Box 9, Folder 4
Jacobi, Lotte,
1957-1965
Scope and Content Note
21 items, including 6 by R.P.: correspondence with the
German-American photographer in New Hampshire. They exchange their artistic
opinions about photography and other photographers, including Hugo Erfurth,
Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, Otto Steinert, and the Canadian photographer
Carsh [Karsh?]. R.P. writes about Thomas Mann; the book project
Bäume and mentions writing a theoretical work
about photography. Jacobi writes about photographs by R.P. published in Ernst
Fuhrmann's book
Das Wunder der Pflanze [1938], exhibitions of
her own photographic work in 1959 in Manchester, New Hampshire [Currier Gallery
of Art] and in 1964 in New York [New Yorker Gallery 303], and recommends to
R.P. an article about her, published in the New York Times [Sunday issue, July?
1964]. The letters from 1965 discuss chiefly the prices of R.P.'s photographs
exhibited at Lotte Jacobi's gallery in Deering, New Hampshire ( included is a
copy of the export licence), and at the Art Institute of Chicago. Jacobi's
letter from Dec. 5, 1963 is written on the verso of a large color reproduction
of a photograph of her residence.
Box 9, Folder 4
Jacobs, Stefan,
1959-1960
Scope and Content Note
5 items, including 3 by R.P. : business correspondence
with the wine grower Stefan Jacobs in Graach an der Mosel.
Box 9, Folder 4
Jaenisch, Hans,
1957
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to R.P. by the German artist. Jaenisch asks for a
photograph R.P. took of Hugo Kükelhaus, which also shows a drawing of a Chinese
sculpture by Jaenisch.
Box 9, Folder 4
Jagon,
1955
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to R.P. regarding purchasing photographs.
Box 9, Folder 4
Jahn, Walther,
1954
Scope and Content Note
1 letter by R.P. to the printer Walther Jahn, complaining
about the technical quality of the reprints of photographs of Höxter and Corvey
[
Höxter und Corvey, 1954].
Box 9, Folder 4
Jancke, Rudolf,
1964
Scope and Content Note
2 items, including 1 by R.P.: intellectual exchange
between R.P. and the German philosopher Rudolf Jancke. Both comment on each
other's recent books: R.P.'s
Bäume [1962] and Jancke's
Glück; and refer to the writings by the German
philosopher Rudolf Kassner:
Das physiognomische Weltbild [1930],
Zahl und Gesicht [1919],
Buch der Erinnerung [1938], and
Physiognomik [1932].
Box 9, Folder 4
Janssen & Cie.,
1964-1965
Scope and Content Note
3 items, including 1 by R.P.: 2 letters and 1 invoice.
Business correspondence with the firm Janssen & Cie., Photo-Grosshandlung
in Cologne.
Box 9, Folder 4
Jaques, Renate,
1950
Scope and Content Note
3 items, including 2 by R.P.: correspondence with Renate
Jaques at the Gewebesammlung Textilingenieurschule in Krefeld, concerning
R.P.'s photographs of medieval fabrics in the cathedral in Aachen. R.P.
mentions his photographs of ancient Peruvian fabrics at the Museum für
Völkerkunde in Berlin which he made for the Folkwang Verlag [published within
the series
Schriften-Reihe Kulturen der Erde].
Box 9, Folder 4
Johannsen, Martin,
1952-1953
Scope and Content Note
4 items, including 3 by R.P.: correspondence with Martin
Johannsen in Essen, regarding photographs of paintings.
Box 9, Folder 4
Jung, Ewald,
1952
Scope and Content Note
3 items, including 1 by R.P.: business correspondence with
Ewald Jung at the Bayerische Creditbank in Munich. Jung is asking R.P. to send
photographs for a travel brochure about Germany.
Box 9, Folder 5
Jünger, Ernst,
1943-1967
Scope and Content Note
51 items, comprising 30 letters (on 32 leaves), 20
postcards, and 1 offprint: professional correspondence with the German novelist
and essayist. The letters, including 10 by R.P. written between 1960 and 1967,
discuss Jünger's essays and R.P.'s photographic work for the books
Bäume and
Gestein. Jünger's letter from Feb. 23, 1965 has
a sketch plan of a location on verso. Included is a copy of the letter by Ernst
Jünger to Siegfried Bene concerning
Gestein. The postcards are addressed to R.P.;
several include references to book projects for the firm C.H. Boehringer Sohn.
The offprint
Ansprache von Ernst Jünger anlässlich des 3. Bayerischen
Entomologentages in München, am 10. April 1965
, 12 p., is inscribed by
Jünger. Also included are 1 obituary and 1 engagement announcement.
Box 9, Folder 6
Heinrich Junker - Hille Kleinstra
Box 9, Folder 6
Junker, Heinrich,
1949
Scope and Content Note
2 items, including 1 by R.P.: correspondence concerning a
commission for R.P. to take photographs of a church designed by Baurat Dambleff
in Soest. The letter by Junker has pencil notes and a drawing on verso.
Box 9, Folder 6
Hotel Kaiserhof (Essen, Germany),
1952-1953
Scope and Content Note
6 items, including 3 by R.P.: correspondence between R.P.
and hotel Der Kaiserhof in Essen, concerning payments to R.P.
Box 9, Folder 6
Kampmann, Theoderich,
1956-1962,
undated
Scope and Content Note
4 items, including 2 by R.P.: correspondence with the
German educator and professor at the university in Munich; with a mention of
the books
Höxter und Corvey [1954] and
Hohenstaufenburgen in Süditalien [1961].
Box 9, Folder 6
Gräfl. v. Kanitz'sche
Weingutsverwaltung,
1953
Scope and Content Note
1 item: letter to R.P. from the Gräfl. v. Kanitz'sche
Weingutsverwaltung in Lorch am Rhein, regarding shipment of wine.
Box 9, Folder 6
Kästner, Erhart,
1949
Scope and Content Note
2 letters to R. P. by Erhart Kästner, editor of the series
Merian published by the Verlag Hoffmann und
Campe, asking R.P. to send photographs of Dresden. The letter from Jan. 16,
1949 has annotations and a drawing by R.P.
Box 9, Folder 6
Katzmann-Verlag,
1959
Scope and Content Note
3 items, including 1 by R.P.: letters regarding
photographs by R.P. for the 1960 calendar
Meisterwerke christlicher Kunst, issued by the
Katzmann-Verlag in Tübingen.
Box 9, Folder 6
Kaupp, Hans,
1954
Scope and Content Note
5 items, including 1 by R.P.: business letters with Hans
Kaupp Buchdruckerei in Tübingen, regarding photographs of churches, listing the
photographs.
Box 9, Folder 6
Kempe, Fritz,
1956-1964
Scope and Content Note
8 items, including 2 by R.P.: correspondence between R.P.
and the director of the Staatliche Landesbildstelle Hamburg, who writes about
the significance of R.P.'s photographic work and refers to articles about R.P.
which he wrote under the pseudonym Fried Maximilian for the magazines
Foto Rundschau and
Photomagazin (June issue).
Box 9, Folder 6
Kerff, Gerhard,
1961
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to R.P. by the photographer Gerhard Kerff, who
writes extensively about his impressions of R.P.'s photographs included in the
book
Hohenstaufenburgen in Süditalien.
Box 9, Folder 6
Franz Kerstin Eisen-und
Eisenwaren-Grosshandlung,
1956
Scope and Content Note
2 items, including 1 by R.P.: an invoice and a letter by
R.P.; concerning the sale of an oven for R.P.'s home.
Box 9, Folder 6
Kessemeier, Carl,
1962
Scope and Content Note
2 items, including 1 by R.P.: correspondence with Carl
Kessemeier, from the Sauerländer Heimatbund; who asks R.P. for photographs of
the Möhne River Valley.
Box 9, Folder 6
Kettembeil, K.,
1950
Scope and Content Note
3 items, including 2 letters and 1 postcard to R.P. :
correspondence concerning reprints and copyright permission of photographs of
the entrance hall of the Bundeshaus in Bonn, designed by Hans Schwippert; to be
used as illustration on game cards.
Box 9, Folder 6
Kleinstra, Hille and
Kleinstra, Hanke,
1960-1961
Scope and Content Note
8 items, including 2 by R.P.: professional/personal
correspondence with the editor of the Dutch magazine
Foto and his wife Hanke Kleinstra. The letters
from Hille Kleinstra mention R.P.'s participation at the Photokina in Cologne
and two articles Kleinstra wrote about R.P for
Foto [October and December 1960]. R.P. writes
about Hugo Erfurth and the exhibition of Erfurth's photographic work in Essen.
Box 9, Folder 7
Ernst Klett Verlag - Knoll International
GmbH
Box 9, Folder 7
Ernst Klett Verlag,
1962,
1966
Scope and Content Note
4 items, including 2 by R.P.: correspondence with the
Ernst Klett Verlag in Stuttgart, ordering reproductions of photographs by R.P.
for school books and discussing copyright issues. R.P. expresses his opinion of
color photography.
Box 9, Folder 7
Aug. Klönne (Firm),
1953
Scope and Content Note
3 items, including 1 by R.P.: correspondence with the firm
Aug. Klönne in Dortmund (Dr. Lehman), regarding photographs by R.P. of the
Heinrich Robert coal mine tower.
Box 9, Folder 7
Klipstein, Editha,
1950
Scope and Content Note
5 items, including 2 by R.P.: business correespondence
between the journalist Marie Daub-Mohr, the German poet Editha Klipstein and
R.P., regarding reprints of R.P.'s portrait photograph of Klipstein; also 2
personal letters from Klipstein to R.P.
Box 9, Folder 7
Dipl. Ing. Karl Knapp Verlag,
1964
Scope and Content Note
2 items, including 1 by R.P.: business correspondence with
the publisher of
Foto Prisma (Meskemper), refering to an
article about R.P. in the 9/64 issue, and asking R.P. for a list of his books
currently in print.
Box 9, Folder 7
Knoll International (Stuttgart,
Germany),
1952-1956
Scope and Content Note
14 items (on 16 leaves), including 7 by R.P.: business
correspondence between the furniture manufacturer Knoll International GmbH in
Stuttgart (Robert S. Knoll, Helmut Schramme) and R.P. The letters concern a
commission for R.P. to take photographs of furniture at the Amerika-Haus in
Essen, to be used in an article for
Architektur und Wohnen. With a mention of the
architect Vetter.
Part 2 Knorr - Unidentified
Box 10, Folder 1
Knorr & Hirth Verlag -
Körbecke/Möhnesee
Box 10, Folder 1
Knorr & Hirth Verlag,
1955-1960
Scope and Content Note
15 items, including 8 by R.P.: correspondence between R.P.
and the Knorr & Hirth Verlag in Munich (Fricke), concerning the honorarium
and the selection of photographs of Dresden from R.P.'s archive for a book
project within the series
Das kleine Kunstbuch [
Dresden, wie es wurde und war, 1956], with
text by Friedrich Schnack. Fricke mentions several contemporary photographers
commissioned by the Knorr & Hirth Verlag. R.P. expresses his opinion of the
photographers Friedrich Hewicker, Gerhard Kerff, Walter Hege, Toni Schneiders,
Karl Hugo Schmölz, Willi Beutler, Hans Saebens, and Heinz Müller-Brunke, also
the art critic Will Grohmann.
Box 10, Folder 1
Verlagsanstalt Alexander Koch,
1950
Scope and Content Note
2 items, including 1 by R.P.: correspondence with the
Verlagsanstalt Alexander Koch GmbH in Stuttgart (Alexander Koch), asking R.P.
for photographs of restaurants and bars for a book project [
Restaurants, cafés, bars, 1959]; with a
mention of the architect Hans Schwippert.
Box 10, Folder 1
Kock, Erich,
1953-1962
Scope and Content Note
6 items, including 3 by R.P.: correspondence concerning an
article by Erich Kock about R.P.'s photographic work, especially portraits, to
be published by Velhagen. Also included is 1 letter from Erich Kock addressed
to R.P.'s daughter Sabine in which he describes another book project about
portrait photography by R.P. and Pan Walther. R.P. recommends to Kock the
portrait photographer Liselotte Strelow.
Box 10, Folder 1
Alexander Köhler Buchhandlung,
1956,
1958
Scope and Content Note
2 items, including 1 by R.P.: business correspondence with
Alexander Köhler Buchhandlung in Dresden.
Box 10, Folder 1
Koehler & Volckmar,
1953
Scope and Content Note
2 items, including 1 by R.P.: correspondence with the firm
Koehler & Volckmar in Leipzig, concerning payments to R.P. from Imago
Strahlbild-Verlag.
Box 10, Folder 1
Köhn, H. (Heinz),
1949-1956,
undated
Scope and Content Note
8 items, including 6 by R.P.: correspondence between R.P.
and the Museumsrat Dr. Heinz Köhn at Museum Folkwang in Essen, concerning the
sale of negatives of R.P. photographs to the Museum Folkwang. R.P. reflects on
the current cultural climate in Germany ; writes about his impression of
Hermann Friedmann's philosophical work
Wissenschaft und Symbol [1948]; mentions his
recently published books
Soest [1950] and
Rund um den Möhnesee [1951], his landscape
photographs of winegrowing areas [for the book project
Lob des Rheingaus, 1953]; also recommends the
firm Johann Schmidt in Essen for processing of his negatives.
Box 10, Folder 1
Köllmann, Erich,
1950,
1953
Scope and Content Note
3 items, including 2 by R.P.: correspondence with Erich
Köllmann at the Kunstgewerbemuseum der Stadt Köln, regarding R.P. 's photograph
of a toy, and the sale of six Römer type wine glasses to R.P. With a mention of
Hugo Kükelhaus.
Box 10, Folder 1
Kölsch-Fölzer-Werke,
1953
Scope and Content Note
3 items, including 1 by R.P.: correspondence with the
blast furnace manufacturer Kölsch-Fölzer-Werke in Siegen, asking R.P. for
reprints of a photograph. In his letter R.P. lists his photographs of
smelteries, indicating which negatives were lost during the war.
Box 10, Folder 1
König, Heinrich,
1950
Scope and Content Note
2 items, including 1 by R.P.: correspondence with Heinrich
König at the Deutscher Werkbund Württemberg-Baden; concerning R.P.'s photograph
of the Bundeshaus in Bonn to be used as illustration in König's article for
Neue Württembergische Zeitung.
Box 10, Folder 1
Amtsverwaltung Körbecke,
,
1950
Scope and Content Note
1 letter from the Amtsverwaltung Körbecke to R.P.
regarding the maintenance of a water meter.
Box 10, Folder 1
Amstkasse Körbecke/Möhnesee,
1955
Scope and Content Note
1 letter from R.P. to the Amtskasse Körbecke/Möhnesee
regarding the termination of his membership in the local artisans guild
[Handwerkskammer].
Box 10, Folder 2
Bernd Kösters - Hanns Krenz
Box 10, Folder 2
Kösters, Bernd,
1949-1950
Scope and Content Note
10 items, including 3 by R.P.: correspondence with the
architect, asking R.P. to make photographs of churches he designed in
Borkenwirthe and in Mussum, also of portals in Münster.
Box 10, Folder 2
Kotthoff, August,
1950
Scope and Content Note
4 letters to R.P. from the ornamental iron-worker in
Cologne, asking R.P. for reprints of photographs of architectural details he
designed for the parlament building (Bundeshaus) in Bonn. The letter from Dec.
5, 1950 has a pencil drawing on verso.
Box 10, Folder 2
Kranseder & Cie.,
1951
Scope and Content Note
1 business letter to R.P. from the manufacturer of
photochemical products Trockenplattenfabrik Kranseder & Cie. in Munich.
Box 10, Folder 2
Kramer, Rudolf,
1953
Scope and Content Note
3 items, including 2 by R.P. : correspondence with the
graphic artist Rudolf Kramer in Recklinghausen, concerning photographs for an
exhibition about recreational areas in the Ruhr Region, organized by the
Ministerium für Wiederaufbau [Department of Reconstruction]. R.P. mentions Karl
Höhle and the photographer Friedrich Emil Krauss.
Box 10, Folder 2
Krauss, Friedrich Emil,
1950-1961,
undated
Scope and Content Note
20 items, including 5 by R.P.: correspondence between R.P.
and the photographer Friedrich Emil Krauss, his wife Irmgard Krauss-Lynen,
Krauss's former employee Ursula Büchner, and 1 telegraph from Erwin O.
Haberfeld to R.P. regarding Krauss's arrival in West Germany (dated July 19,
1954). The letters concern several projects for R.P.: a letterhead design;
reprints from Krauss's album of objects lost during the war, especialy lace
work [in:
Klöppelspitzenbuch, 1935] and a painting by
[Bernardino] Luini (Madonna with Child); also an advertisement for the firm
Definitiv Kontroll-Buchhaltung. In the context of the advertisement Krauss
mentions R.P.'s pre-war photographs of crystals.
Box 10, Folder 2
Weingut Kom.-Rat. Krayer Erben,
1950-1955
Scope and Content Note
10 items, including 5 by R.P.: correspondence with the
winegrower Weingut Kom.-Rat. Krayer Erben in Johannisberg/Rheingau, concerning
purchase and delivery of wine.
Box 10, Folder 2
Krenz, Hanns,
1956-1959
Scope and Content Note
4 items: 3 letters, including 2 Christmas letters
(Rundbrief) and one business announcement to R.P. from the art dealer and
antiquarian book dealer Hanns Krenz in Berlin-Dahlem. Krenz mentions renting an
apartment in Berlin from the artist Florence Jessie Hösel; the mutual friend
[Wynand?] Stockmann; also selling R.P.'s photographs.
Box 10, Folder 3
Felix Kreusch - Fried. Krupp Maschinen- und Stahlbau
Rheinhausen
Box 10, Folder 3
Kreusch, Felix,
1955
Scope and Content Note
2 items, including 1 by R.P.: correspondence with the
architect Felix Kreusch, concerning reprints of R.P.'s photographs of the
cathedral in Aachen.
Box 10, Folder 3
Kreutter, Wolfgang,
1950
Scope and Content Note
2 items: 1 letter and 1 postcard to R.P. from the German
artist Wolfgang Kreutter concerning reprints of R.P.'s photographs of
Kreutter's work. The postcard has address of the wood turner and sculptor
Ludwig Florin in Dödesberg.
Box 10, Folder 3
Der Kriegsblinde,
1957
Scope and Content Note
4 items, including 2 by R.P.: correspondence with the
editor of the magazine
Der Kriegsblinde in Bielefeld, Friedrich W.
Hymmen, concerning the photograph of a beech forest (appeared in the magazine
Westfalenspiegel, October 1956, p. 23) and
other photographs by R.P. Hymmen asks R.P. to photograph people blinded in the
war.
Box 10, Folder 3
Alfred Kröner Verlag,
1954
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to R.P. from the Alfred Kröner Verlag in
Stuttgart, regarding shipment of books.
Box 10, Folder 3
Krupp Stahl AG. Werk (Rheinhausen, Duisburg,
Germany),
1953-1958
Scope and Content Note
21 items (on 22 leaves), including 6 by R.P.
Correspondence, including copyright issues, with the firm Fried. Krupp
Maschinen- und Stahlbau Rheinhausen, concerning commissions to photograph
several industrial sites, including the coal mine Grimberg, and reprints of
photographs of the coal mine Katharina commissioned by the firm Essener
Steinkohlenbergwerke.
Box 10, Folder 4
Fritz Kühn - Kunstring Soest
Box 10, Folder 4
Kühn, Fritz,
1952-1953
Scope and Content Note
2 items, including 1 by R.P.: correspondence with Fritz
Kuhn at the Atelier für Kunstschmiedearbeiten, Stahl- und Metallgestaltung in
Berlin; concerning honorarium for R.P.
Box 10, Folder 4
Kühn,
1953
Scope and Content Note
1 business letter from R.P. to Ministerialrat Kühn in
Düsseldorf. Annotated by R.P. and by Kühn.
Box 10, Folder 4
Kühne, Margret,
1959
Scope and Content Note
1 personal letter to R.P.
Box 10, Folder 4
O. Küllenberg K. G.,
1960
Scope and Content Note
1 letter by R.P. to the firm O. Küllenberg KG. in Essen;
regarding payment.
Box 10, Folder 4
North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany).
Kultusministerium,
1964-1965
Scope and Content Note
10 items, including 5 by R.P.: correspondence with the
Ministry of Culture of the state Nordrhein-Westfalen (Richter, Otto) regarding
financial support for R.P. in exchange for photographs. R.P. mentions his
artistic goal of objectivity.
Box 10, Folder 4
Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf,
1957
Scope and Content Note
5 items, including 2 by R.P.: correspondence with H.
Schmidt at the Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf; regarding the lecture
titled
Über Wesen und Aufgabe der Fotografie: Versuch einer
Einordnung
, which R.P. was invited to give at the academy on Dec. 17,
1957.
Box 10, Folder 4
Kunst-Dienst der Evangelischen Kirche (Berlin,
Germany),
1955
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to R.P., asking for reprints of photographs of
landscapes in the Ruhr Region for the annual publication
Kirchenbote.
Box 10, Folder 4
Kunstring Soest,
1950
Scope and Content Note
2 items, including 1 by R.P.: correspondence regarding
R.P.'s participation as a juror in an art exhibition organized by Kunstring in
Soest.
Box 10, Folder 5
Albert Lange - Landgericht Oldenburg
Box 10, Folder 5
Lange, Albert,
1946?
Scope and Content Note
1 personal letter to R.P. from Albert Lange in
Bieberstein. With a mention of Ernst Fuhrmann. Written shortly after the war,
dated 18/1 i.e. Jan. 18th. [1946?]
Box 10, Folder 5
Lange, Rudolf,
1965
Scope and Content Note
3 items (on 13 leaves), including 1 by R.P.:
correspondence with Rudolf Lange in Australia, touching on several topics,
including the German colony Lobethal in Australia, the severe drought in
Australia in 1965, books by Marcel Proust, Joseph Conrad and Cesare Pavese,also
a mention of R.P.'s book projects
Gestein and
Im Wald.
Box 10, Folder 5
Karl Robert Langewiesche Verlag,
undated
Scope and Content Note
1 letter by R.P. to the Karl Robert Langewiesche Verlag in
Königstein/Taunus (Köster); presenting arguments in favor of a new edition of
his book
Deutsche Wasserburgen [1957].
Box 10, Folder 5
Landgericht Oldenburg,
1954
Scope and Content Note
23 items (on 30 leaves), including 11 by R.P.:
professional correspondence between R.P. and several legal institutions related
to the lawsuit Foto-Selliers versus Förderanlagen Wilhelmshaven, in which R.P.
was involved as an expert witness. Included are letters from the offices of the
notaries and attorneys; also written testimony by R.P. (8 pages) and handritten
notes by R.P. regarding his expenses.
Box 10, Folder 6
Mardersteig, Giovanni,
1962-1966
Scope and Content Note
29 items (on 36 leaves), including 11 by R.P.:
correspondence with the German printer and typographer Giovanni Mardersteig in
Verona, mainly regarding details of the book
Gestein. R.P. stresses the correlation between
his photographs and the text by Ernst Jünger. Included is a list of plates
(Tafelverzeichnis) from
Gestein (2 leaves), four leaves of typescript
proofs with corrections, and the layout of the title page. [Correspondence of
Giovanni Mardersteig is also filed under C. H. Boeringer Sohn in Box 3 and Box
4].
Box 10, Folder 7
Leni Matthaei - Museum für Photographie
Dresden
Box 10, Folder 7
Mattaei, Leni,
1964
Scope and Content Note
1 thank-you letter to R.P. from the bobbin lace artist
Leni Matthaei. Matthaei mentions that her recent work is inspired by wood
grain. The letterhead has Bauhaus style typography.
Box 10, Folder 7
Metternich, Alix,
undated
Scope and Content Note
1 thank-you letter to R.P. from Alix Metternich in Rome
[related to Wolff Metternich from the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome?].
Box 10, Folder 7
Uitgeversmaatschappij "C. Misset",
1960,
1966
Scope and Content Note
2 items: 2 invoices and 1 personal letter to R.P. from the
firm C. Misset in Doetincham, Netherlands.
Box 10, Folder 7
Molnar,
1965
Scope and Content Note
1 letter from R.P. to Dr. Molnar at the Werbeagentur Dr.
Hegemann GmbH in Düsseldorf, in which he presents his opinion about
contemporary photography.
Box 10, Folder 7
Muck, O.,
undated
Scope and Content Note
1 item: a business card of Dr. med. O. Muck in Essen,
annotated to R.P. A small geometrical pencil drawing on verso.
Box 10, Folder 7
Museum für Photographie (Dresden,
Germany),
1966
Scope and Content Note
4 items, including 3 by R.P. : correspondence with W. Hahn
at the Museum für Photographie in Dresden; concerning the acquisition of
photographs by R.P. for the museum's collection. R.P. mentions his interest in
industrial landscapes.
Box 10, Folder 8
Oberkreisdirektor, Soest - Jaap
d'Oliveira
Box 10, Folder 8
Soest (Germany : Kreis).
Oberkreisdirektor,
1963
Scope and Content Note
1 business letter by R.P. to the Oberkreisdirektor in
Soest; concerning a commission.
Box 10, Folder 8
Oeser, Hans Ludwig,
1952
Scope and Content Note
7 items, including 2 by R.P.: correspondence with the
editor of the Obpacher Kunstverlag in Munich, concerning copyright issues of
photographs by R.P. intended for the 1953 issue of the calendar
Schönheit der Natur, ein Bildkalender für den
Naturfreund
. R.P. mentions his difficulty with the changing technology
in photography.
Box 10, Folder 8
Oliveira, Jaap d',
undated
Scope and Content Note
1 letter from the photographer and former student of R.P.,
in which he mentions the influence of R.P.'s photography on his work. [Letters
from Jaap d'Oliveira's father A. E. d'Oliveira are filed in Box 1, F. 1].
Box 11, Folder 1
Magdalena Padberg - Photographische Gesellschaft in
Wien,
Box 11, Folder 1
Padberg, Magdalena,
1965
Scope and Content Note
1 personal letter to R.P. from Magdalena Padberg at the
Handwerkerschule Eslohe. Padberg mentions Walter Gropius and Josef Albers.
Box 11, Folder 1
Pater + Platten (Firm),
1962
Scope and Content Note
1 invoice to R.P. for an office product, from the firm
Pater + Platten in Neheim-Hüsten.
Box 11, Folder 1
Pawlik, Johannes,
1961
Scope and Content Note
2 letters, including 1 by R.P.; regarding photographs by
R.P. for a book project about architecture [
Grosse Baukunst, 1963].
Box 11, Folder 1
Unna (Germany : Landkreis). Amt
Pelkum,
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to R.P. from the director of Amt Pelkum;
regarding R.P.'s photographs of a church building designed by Baurat Dambleff
(Geistschule in Wiescherhöfen).
Box 11, Folder 1
Penguin (Firm),
1962
Scope and Content Note
2 business letters, including 1 by R.P.: asking for
photographs for a forthcoming volume of
An outline of European architecture by
Nikolaus Pevsner.
Box 11, Folder 1
Hans Peters Verlag,
1956-1959
Scope and Content Note
27 items (on 28 leaves), including 12 by R.P. and 1 letter
to R.P. from Dr. Deus from the Stadtarchiv Soest: correspondence with the
publisher Hans Peters in Honnef/Rhein, who is mainly requesting photographs for
several of his book projects, including
Bilder aus Westfalen,
Essen - Impressionen und Profile, two other
books about Cologne [Köln] and about Düsseldorf; also
Dome und Kathedralen [1958] and
Meisterwerke der oberrheinischen Kunst des
Mittelalters
[1959]. R.P. frequently refers to copyright issues.
Several letters describe R.P.'s unsuccessful attempts to find a publisher for a
book about Hugo Erfurth.
Box 11, Folder 1
Photoblätter,
1960
Scope and Content Note
4 items, including 2 by R.P.: correspondence between R.P.
and the editors of
Photoblätter (Eberle, Reuter); asking R.P. to
contribute photographs for a forthcoming issue devoted to the theme landscape.
Annotated by R.P.
Box 11, Folder 1
Photo ciné club du Val de Bièvre,
1962
Scope and Content Note
2 items, including 1 by R.P.: the letter to R.P., signed
by the president of the Photo ciné club du Val de Bièvre, Jean Fage; lists
photographs by R.P. reserved for the Bibliothèque nationale.
Box 11, Folder 1
Photographische Gesellschaft in Wien,
1961
Scope and Content Note
2 items, including 1 by R.P.: correspondence regarding the
goldn medal awarded to R.P. by the Photographische Gesellschaft in Wien. With a
mention of L. Fritz Gruber.
Box 11, Folder 2
Photography Year Book, London,
1952-1961
Scope and Content Note
41 items (on 42 leaves), including 14 by R.P.:
correspondence with Normann Hall (editor of
Photography Year Book) and R. C. de Morgan
(editor of
Photograms of the Year); concerning the
inclusion of photographs by R.P. in the 1952-1962 issues of
Photography Year Book. With a mention of R.P.'s
portrait of Editha Klipstein. R.P. expresses his appreciation of the work of
Bill Brand and Henri Cartier Bresson and of Edward Steichen's exhibition
The family of man. R.P. also expresses his
opinion about abstract photography. Several letters are annotated by R.P. with
titles and numbers of photographs he sent to Normann Hall.
Box 11, Folder 3
Photokina 1960 [International Photo- and Cine
Exhibition]
- Photo-Presse, Hannoversch-Münden
Box 11, Folder 3
Photokina 1960 [International Photo- and Cine
Exhibition]
,
1960
Scope and Content Note
4 items, including 2 by R.P.: correspondence with Gabriele
Dolega at the
Photokina 1960 in Cologne; discussing details
of signage and display of photographs at the
Photokina 1960 exhibition.
Box 11, Folder 3
Popular Photography,
1961
Scope and Content Note
2 items (on 4 leaves), including 1 by R.P.: correspondence
with Pietro Donzelli, the editor of
Popular Photography, la più grande rivista
fotografica del mondo
; regarding a biographical article about R.P. and
an article about the 1929 Deutsche Werkbund exhibition
Film und Foto, both articles planned for a
forthcoming issue of the magazine. Donzelli mentions several articles about
photographers, including Ansel Adams, Alfred Stieglitz, Eugène Atget, the firm
Photo-Secession, and Jacob Riis; published by the magazine.
Box 11, Folder 3
Publications Photo-Cinéma Paul Montel,
1962
Scope and Content Note
2 items, including 1 by R.P.: correpondence with Paul
Montel, editor of
Photo cinéma magazine; regarding reproduction
of R.P.'s photograph
Baumschlag.
Box 11, Folder 3
Photo-Magazin,
1953-1957
Scope and Content Note
2 items, including 1 by R.P.: correpondence with Dr. Croy,
editor of the
Photo-Magazin in Munich. Croy's letter to R.P.
regards a series of articles about the darkroom experience of several
well-known photographers. R.P. refers to an extensive article about his
photographic work published in 1957 in the
Photo-Magazin. The letter by R.P. is
annotated.
Box 11, Folder 3
Photo-Presse,
1955
Scope and Content Note
1 letter by R.P.; cancelling a subscription.
Box 11, Folder 4
Otto G. Pickhan - Paul Hubert Prausnitz
Box 11, Folder 4
Pickhan, Otto G.,
1962 and 1963
Scope and Content Note
2 letters to R.P. from the firm Sauerländer Kunsthandwerk
Otto G. Pickhan in Mollseifen/Westfalen; requesting reprints.
Box 11, Folder 4
Pieper, Paul,
1955-1956
Scope and Content Note
3 items, including 1 by R.P.: correspondence between R.P.
and Paul Pieper at the Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte in
Münster/Westfalen; discussing plans for a book project about Soes. R.P. lists
photographs in his private collection of work by Hugo Erfurth, including
portraits of Otto Dix, Max Pechstein, Carl Hofer, Hans Thoma, Oskar Kokoschka,
Dorsch, Käthe Kollwitz, Renée Sintenis, Max Planck, Herbert Eulenberg, Theodor
Däubler, Martin Gropius, Mies van der Rohe, and Wilhems Kreis.
Box 11, Folder 4
Piotti, Achille,
1966
Scope and Content Note
1 letter by R.P. to a physician in Lugano, Italy;
regarding medical fees.
Box 11, Folder 4
Pölzig, Peter,
1959
Scope and Content Note
3 items, including 1 by R.P.: correspondence with the
office of the architect Peter Pölzig in Duisburg, between R.P. and Dipl. Ing.
Sifrin; concerning R.P.'s photographs of a hospital building in Bensberg.
Sifrin mentions Eric Samuel de Maré's book on architectural and industrial
photography.
Box 11, Folder 4
Pollack, Peter,
1958 and undated
Scope and Content Note
2 letters to R.P., one on letterhead of the publishing
house Harry N. Abrams Inc. in New York. In the undated letter Pollack asks R.P.
for reprints of photographs from
Die Welt ist schön for the forthcoming book
Masterpieces of photography.
Box 11, Folder 4
Pollak, Kurt,
1962
Scope and Content Note
3 items, including 1 by R.P.: correspondence regarding
copyright of photographs included in the book
Von der antiken Heilkunst im Gebiet des Mittelrheines
by J. Como, a C.H. Boehringer Sohn publication.
Box 11, Folder 4
Portmann, Adolf,
1959
Scope and Content Note
2 items, including 1 by R.P.: correspondence with the
biologist Adolf Portmann at Zoologische Anstalt der Universität Basel. R.P.
writes about his photographs of forest (Wald-Bilder).
Box 11, Folder 4
Postamt Soest,
1953
Scope and Content Note
3 letters by R.P.: two letters to the post office in Soest
and one letter addressed to the Oberpostdirektion in Dortmund; concerning a
malfunctioning phone connection.
Box 11, Folder 4
Prausnitz, Paul Hubert,
1960
Scope and Content Note
1 personal letter to R.P. by the chemist.
Box 11, Folder 5
Presswerk A. G.,
1952-1956
Scope and Content Note
40 items, including 21 by R.P. : correspondence between R.P.
and Presswerk AG in Essen; discussing projects commissioned to R.P. (wooden
boards called "Pagholzplatten") for the firm's trade catalogs and exhibitions.
R.P. includes technical details of the photographic process, expresses his
aesthetic concerns and mentions his work for the Eisenbahn-Ausbesserungswerk in
Opladen.
Box 11, Folder 6
Prestel Verlag - Quick Verlagsleitung
Box 11, Folder 6
Prestel Verlag,
1958
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to R.P. from the editor of the Prestel Verlag in
Munich, Walter Romstoek; regarding photographs by R.P. published in Nikolaus
Pevsner's
Europäische Architektur.
Box 11, Folder 6
Preuss, F. G.,
1951
Scope and Content Note
1 letter by R.P. to F.G. Preuss, in which R.P. mentions
taking photographs at the hotel Kaiserhof in Essen.
Box 11, Folder 6
Quick,
1964
Scope and Content Note
2 items (on 3 leaves), including 1 by R.P.: professional
correspondence between R.P. and B. Naegele from the editorial office of
Quick; regarding R.P.'s membership in the
foundation Stiftung zur Förderung der Photographie. With a mention of L. Fritz
Gruber.
Box 11, Folder 7
[Helene] Rahms - Rheinischer Merkur
Box 11, Folder 7
Rahms, Helene,
1949
Scope and Content Note
2 personal letters to R.P. possibly by the German
journalist Helene Rahms; signed "Ihre Rahms".
Box 11, Folder 7
Rahm,
undated
Scope and Content Note
1 letter signed "Rahm", without formal address, in verse.
Box 11, Folder 7
Ray, Man,
1961
Scope and Content Note
1 business card of an Italian restaurant in Paris; with
greetings to R.P., signed by several people, including Man Ray.
Box 11, Folder 7
Reygers, Leonie,
1960
Scope and Content Note
1 telegram to R.P. from Dr. Leonie Reygers at the Museum
am Ostwall in Dortmund; congratulating R.P. on the culture prize. Annotated by
R.P.
Box 11, Folder 7
Rheinische Post,
1959
Scope and Content Note
5 items, including 1 by R.P.: correspondence with the
editor Hermann Blech regarding photographs by R.P. published in
Rheinische Post. Blech mentions his book on
working class authors
Deutsche Arbeiterdichter [1950].
Box 11, Folder 7
Rheinischer Merkur,
1958
Scope and Content Note
3 items, including 1 by R.P.: correspondence with the
editor of
Rheinischer Merkur, Dr. Roegele; regarding
reprints of R.P.'s photographs of the castle in Bruchsal (Bruchsaler
Schloss)
Box 11, Folder 8
Richter, Max,
1962-1965
Scope and Content Note
34 items (on 36 leaves), including 18 by R.P.:
correspondence related to
Gestein. The majority of letters are between
R.P. and Maria Madjera, the secretary of Max Richter, director of the
Geologisch- Paläontologisches Institut at the Freie Universität Berlin; also
between Max Richter and R.P., and R.P. and the firm C.H. Boehringer Sohn
(Siegfried Bene). The correspondence with Maria Madjera concerns primarily the
scheduling of meetings. The letters between Max Richter and R.P. discuss the
selection of photographs and Richter's text and provide insight into their
cooperation. R.P. describes his concept of photography in his letter from Nov.
24, 1964. One of the letters by Maria Madjera is annotated by R.P. on verso.
Also included is a letter from the firm C.H. Boeriger Sohn to Max Richter
regarding the typography and the layout of Richter's text recommended by
Giovanni Mardersteig. [See also Box 4, F.-2 for correspondence between C.H.
Boehringer Sohn, Giovanni Mardersteig and Max Richter concerning
Gestein].
Box 11, Folder 9
Riedel & Co.,
1953-1957
Scope and Content Note
39 items, including 18 by R.P.: correspondence between R.P.
and the chemical plant Riedel & Co. Spezialfabrik für Galvanotechnik in
Bielefeld (Mr. Bachmann); concerning several commissions to R.P. to photograph
industrial objects produced by Riedel & Co. at the following locations: the
National Registrar Kassen GmbH in Augsburg, the Olympia-Schreibmaschinenwerke
in Wilhelmshaven, the Vereinigten Deutschen Nickelwerke AG in Schwerte/Ruhr,
Siemens & Halske AG and AEG in Berlin, and a Riedel & Co. facility near
Bielefeld.
Box 12, Folder 1
Ilse Roenneke - Liebetraut Rothert
Box 12, Folder 1
Roenneke, Ilse,
1955-1961
Scope and Content Note
2 items, including 1 by R.P.: correspondence with the
architect Ilse Roenneke from Arnsberg/Westfalen.
Box 12, Folder 1
Roenneke, Hartmut,
1961,
undated
Scope and Content Note
4 letters to R.P. Roenneke comments extensively on R.P.'s
lecture about photography and art [
Versuch einer Einordnung der Photographie?].
Box 12, Folder 1
Roh, Franz,
1958
Scope and Content Note
3 items, including 1 by R.P.: correspondence with the art
historian, who is requesting reprints of R.P.'s photograph of the processing
plant Germania in Marten.
Box 12, Folder 1
Roques, K. R. von,
1954
Scope and Content Note
2 items, including 1 by R.P.: correspondence with the
physician in Berlin, who tries to win R.P.'s interest in an illustrated edition
of Auguste Rodin's
Die Kathedralen Frankreichs.
Box 12, Folder 1
Rothert, Liebetraut,
1955-1959
Scope and Content Note
23 items (on 24 leaves), including 8 by R.P. and 1 letter
from Agnes Renger-Patzsch to Rothert: correspondence with the editor of the
magazine
Die Grubenlampe. Rothert asks for permission
to use R.P.'s photographs in
Die Grubenlampe; she also comments on
exhibitions of Edvard Munch and Pablo Picasso, and the exhibition of work by
R.P. held at the Volkshochschule in Marl. R.P. lists his current commissions
for industrial firms.
Box 12, Folder 2
Max Ruhfus - Peter Russell
Box 12, Folder 2
Ruhfus, Max,
1957
Scope and Content Note
3 items by Max Ruhfus: a note to R.P., a letter to the
real estate agent H. Junghölter and a letter to the Bergassessor Florin;
regarding real estate development in Wamel. The letters are carbon copies for
R.P.
Box 12, Folder 2
Ruhrchemie Aktiengesellschaft,
1949
Scope and Content Note
4 items, including 1 letter from Aloys Sommer from the
Fachverband Kohlechemie in Essen to R.P., and 1 letter from R.P. to the
Ruhrchemie Aktiengesellschaft in Oberhausen-Holten (Dr. Rohe): correspondence
regarding reprints of photographs by R.P.
Box 12, Folder 2
Ruhrtalsperrenverein,
1955
Scope and Content Note
7 items, including 3 by R.P.: correspondence with the
Ruhrtalsperrenverein in Delecke, regarding a permit for R.P. to take
photographs near the dam. R.P. writes about his landscape photographs.
Box 12, Folder 2
Ruppel, Aloys,
1956
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to R.P. from Aloys Ruppel at the Gutenberg-Museum
in Mainz; thanking R.P. for a Plantin Press print.
Box 12, Folder 2
Russell, Peter,
1958
Scope and Content Note
6 items (on 10 leaves): six personal letters to R.P. from
Peter Russell (a student of mathematics); and an obituary for Dieter Russell.
Russell mentions R.P.'s portrait photographs of him and his brother Pierre.;
writes about his studies in Kiel; discusses literature (Robert Musil), and
comments on an article by Adolf Portmann. One of his letters was sent from
Berkeley, California. Annotated by R.P.
Box 12, Folder 3
Victor H. Scales - Johannes
Scharfenstein
Box 12, Folder 3
Scales, Victor H.,
1958-1959
Scope and Content Note
2 letters, including 1 by R.P.: intellectual exchange
about photography with an amateur photographer from New York. Scales mentions
photographs by R.P. issued by
Photorama [Oct. 1958] and in
Pictorial history of photography; also Edward
Steichen and his exhibitions of modern photography at the Museum of Modern Art,
New York.
Box 12, Folder 3
Schabicki, Irmgard,
1962
Scope and Content Note
3 letters, including 1 by R.P.: personal correspondence.
Schabicki frequently mentions Hermann Hesse in Montagnola.
Box 12, Folder 3
Schaeffer-Heyrothsberge, Paul,
1955-1956
Scope and Content Note
9 items (on 11 leaves), including 4 by R.P.:
correspondence with the office of the architect Paul Schaeffer-Heyrothsberge in
Wiesbaden; concerning a commission for R.P. to photograph residential
architecture built by the Krupp family in Essen-Bredeney. The letters to R.P.
include detailed guidelines for the photographs. Several letters are annotated
by R.P.
Box 12, Folder 3
Scharfenstein, Johannes,
1960
Scope and Content Note
1 business letter to R.P. from a furniture designer in
Meschede/Ruhr.
Box 12, Folder 4
Scheven, Ilsemarie von,
1959-1961
Scope and Content Note
15 items (on 21 leaves), including 6 by R.P.: intellectual
exchange between R.P. and the book dealer in Hamm. The letters refer to an
article on the photographic work of R.P. by von Scheven, and include
discussions about photography, R.P.'s photographs of trees and his book
Bäume, abstract art, literary topics and the
current cultural climate in Germany. R.P. mentions the
Documenta in Kassel, and comments on Heinrich
Böll's novel
Billard um halb zehn [1961] and Ernst Jünger's
An der Zeitmauer [1959] and
Sgrafitti [1960]. Scheven frequently mentions
contemporary literary authors and their recent publications. Included is a
typescript
Drei Monate Wüste, of von Scheven's review of L.
A. Tregenza's
Egyptian years [1958], published in German
translation under the title
Einsame Berge zwischen Nil und Rotem Meer, by
F.A. Brockhaus in Wiesbaden.
Box 12, Folder 5
Auskunftei W. Schimmelpfeng - P. F.
Schneider
Box 12, Folder 5
Schimmelpfeng, W.,
1954
Scope and Content Note
1 business letter to R.P. from the firm Auskunftei W.
Schimmelpfeng, Deutsche Auskunftei GmbH. in Dortmund.
Box 12, Folder 5
Schirdewan, Ruth,
1959
Scope and Content Note
3 items, including 1 by R.P. : correspondence, regarding
reprints of R.P.'s portrait photograph of Ruth Schirdewan's late brother
Ulrich. R.P. mentions working as a photographer for the firm Deutsche
Spinnerei-Maschinenbau AG in Ingolstadt.
Box 12, Folder 5
Schmitt, Carl,
1956
Scope and Content Note
2 items: a postcard to R.P. from Carl Schmitt and a letter
to Schmitt from R.P. R.P. writes about photography as a profession.
Box 12, Folder 5
Johann Schmidt Photo- und Kinotechnik,
1955,
1960-1961
Scope and Content Note
7 letters by R.P. to the firm; regarding enlargements of
photographs by R.P. (1955) and reprints for the architect Fritz Schupp
(1960-1961).
Box 12, Folder 5
Schmoll gen. Eisenwerth, J. Adolf,
1962
Scope and Content Note
2 letters by the art historian; one addressed to the
director of the Art Institute of Chicago, Hugh Edwards (in French) and one to
R.P. Both letters concern the acquisition of R.P.'s photographs by the Art
Institute of Chicago.
Box 12, Folder 5
Karl Schneider - Architeckt B.D.A
(Firm),
1955
Scope and Content Note
2 items, including 1 by R.P.: correspondence with the firm
in Wuppertal-Elberfeld; concerning photographs of architecture designed by Karl
Schneider. Annotated by R.P.
Box 12, Folder 5
Schneider, P. F.,
1953-1956
Scope and Content Note
5 items, including 1 by R.P.: correspondence with the
architect in Cologne regarding photographs of Schneiders
Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung building in
Essen, published in the book
WAZ ein Druck- und Verlagshaus im Ruhrgebiet
[1954].
Box 12, Folder 6
Schneider-Esleben, Paul,
1953-1962
Scope and Content Note
34 items (on 36 leaves), including 9 by R.P.: predominantly
business correspondence with the architect Paul Schneider-Esleben in
Düsseldorf; concerning commissions to photograph buildings in Meschede, Bracht,
Düsseldorf-Kaiserswerth, Altenhundem and Saalhausen; mainly public buildings.
Several items are annotated by R.P.; some include exchange related to the
commissioned photographs, especially Schneider-Esleben's letter from Oct. 14,
1958, in which he suggests to R.P. specific compositions and perspectives, and
includes sketched drawings of specific sites.
Box 12, Folder 7
Ferdinand Schöningh Verlagsbuchhandlung,
1941-1964
Scope and Content Note
33 items, including 2 by R.P. and 1 personal letter from
Schöningh's wife Annie. Mainly honorariums for R.P. from the publisher and
bookseller Ferdinand Schöningh in Paderborn, for sold copies of
Paderborn [1949].
Box 12, Folder 8
Schöppe, Wilhelm,
1957-1962
Scope and Content Note
ca. 23 items, including 10 by R.P.: correspondence with the
publisher of
Foto Prisma and chairman of G.D.L (Gesellschaft
Deutscher Lichtbildner); discussing plans for a book about Hugo Erfurth; the
David Octavius Hill medal awarded to R.P. by the G.D.L.; R.P.'s article about
photography and architecture in the Oct. 1960 issue of
Photokina; and Erich Stenger's purchase of
R.P.'s photographs for his collection. R.P. comments on the nomination of
August Sander for the 1961 culture prize of G.D.L., and praises the
photographers Will Moegle, Otto Steinert, Ruth Hallensleben, and Walter
Wissenbach. Schöppe mentions a 1951 portrait photograph of R.P. by Pan Walther,
and the plan for R.P. 's participation at the Biennale di Venezia in 1961.
Included are 2 pages from
Foto Prisma, and two typescripts of letters (one
with ms. corrections) from R.P. to the editor of
Foto Prisma, including one on landscape
photography with the title
Zur Ihrer Landschaftsumfrage.
Box 12, Folder 9
Schott, Erich [
Jenaer Glaswerk Schott & Gen.],
1947-1953
Scope and Content Note
29 items, including 13 by R.P.: correspondence between R.P.
and Erich Schott, the managing director of the firm Jenaer Glaswerk Schott
& Gen., after the firm's relocation from Jena to Landshut and later to
Mainz; also between R.P. and Prof. Dr. W. Hahland and 1 letter from Mrs. Schott
to R.P. The letters concern several commissioned works, mainly photographs of
the firm's facilities in Mainz and a trade catalog which included photographs
previously published in the firm's pre-war trade catalogs [
Jena laboratory glassware, 1937 and
Jenaer Glas für Laboratorien, 1937]. With a
mention of a portrait photograph of Erich Schott, a cityscape of Mainz, and
articles illustrated with photographs by R.P. published in in-house magazines (
Zeiss Werkzeitschrift). R.P. writes about the
conflict with Ernst Boerhinger regarding the printing quality in
Lob des Rheingaus.
Box 12, Folder 10
Schott, Erich, [
Jenaer Glaswerk Schott & Gen.],
1954-1956
Scope and Content Note
27 items, including 7 by R.P.: correspondence between R.P.
and the firm Jenaer Glaswerk Schott & Gen. ( W. Hahland ); concerning
commissioned works, mainly photographs of the firm's facilities in Mainz,
including enlargements for an exhibition space in Berlin; and products. With a
mention of a photograph by R.P. published in 1954 by
Die Schaulade in Bamberg, and a portrait
photograph of W. Hahland.
Box 13, Folder 1
Schott, Erich, [
Jenaer Glaswerk Schott & Gen.],
1957-1958
Scope and Content Note
23 items, including 7 by R.P.: correspondence between R.P.
and the firm Jenaer Glaswerk Schott & Gen. ( W. Hahland ); concerning
photographs for an advertising brochure. Hahland mentions a similar project
R.P. worked on for the firm DESAG [Deutsche Spiegelglas A.G.].
Box 13, Folder 2
Schott, Erich, [
Jenaer Glaswerk Schott & Gen.],
1959-1966 and undated
Scope and Content Note
29 items (on 34 leaves), including 10 by R.P.:
correspondence between R.P. and the firm Jenaer Glaswerk & Gen. (Erich
Schott and W. Hahland) concerning orders of reprints and enlargements. The 1965
portion concerns the purchase of negatives R.P. made for the firm in the 1930s
and includes a list of 598 negatives. Included is a letter by R.P. regarding
the artist and photographer Fritz Brill, and an unsigned typescript refering to
the honorary doctorate awarded to Erich Schott by the University of Mainz.
Schott's letter from Feb. 8, 1962 has drawings in R.P.'s hand on verso.
Box 13, Folder 3
Gerhard Schröder - Standard Verlag,
Hamburg
Box 13, Folder 3
Schröder, Gerhard,
1962
Scope and Content Note
2 thank-you letters from the Foreign Minister
(Bundesminister des Auswärtigen) Gerhard Schröder to R.P.
Box 13, Folder 3
Schubert und Salzer (Firm),
1952
Scope and Content Note
1 business letter by Agnes Renger-Patzsch to the firm
Schubert und Salzer in Stuttgart.
Box 13, Folder 3
Staatshochbauamt Soest,
1957
Scope and Content Note
1 business letter to R.P. Annotated.
Box 13, Folder 3
Stadt Darmstadt,
1951
Scope and Content Note
2 items, including 1 by R.P. : correspondence regarding
reprints for an exhibition (Ausstellung 51). [
Mensch + Raum?].
Box 13, Folder 3
Stahl-Armaturen Siepmann,
1960
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to R.P. regarding reprints of photographs R.P.
took of the firm's facilities.
Box 13, Folder 3
Stahlbau Rheinhausen,
1952-1953
Scope and Content Note
5 items, including 2 by R.P.: correspondence regarding
reprints of photographs by R.P.
Box 13, Folder 3
Stahlberg, Ingeborg,
1956-1957
Scope and Content Note
4 items, including 2 by R.P.: correspondence with the
publisher Ingeborg Stahlberg at the Stahlberg-Verlag in Karlsruhe. R.P. writes
in general terms about his experience with commisioned works and mentions his
participation in an exhibition held at the Kunsthalle Mannheim in June 1957.
Box 13, Folder 3
Verlag Gerhard Stalling,
1955
Scope and Content Note
2 items, including 1 by R.P.: correpondence with the
publishing house Gerhard Stalling AG Druck- und Verlagshaus in Oldenburg,
regarding photographs for
Westfalen, schaffendes Land [1955]. With a
list of the selected photographs.
Box 13, Folder 3
Standard-Verlag,
1957
Scope and Content Note
4 items, including 2 by R.P.: correspondence with the
publishing house Standard-Verlag in Hamburg; regarding reprints of R.P.'s
photographs for
Bau, Raum, Gerät [1957] (vol. 2 of the series
Die Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts).
Box 13, Folder 4
Schupp, F. (Fritz),
1951-1959
Scope and Content Note
57 items, including 16 by R.P.: correspondence between R.P.
and the architect Fritz Schupp; also 1 letter from R.P. to Dr. Wulf, director
of the firm Essener Steinkohlenbergwerke, and 1 letter from Schupp to the firm
Vereinigte Kaliwerke Saltzdetfurth, Werk Hattorf in Röhrigshof, near Hersfeld.
The letters concern reprints of R.P.'s photographs of a coal mine. R.P.
mentions his photographs of the residenz of Dr. Mommertz.
Box 13, Folder 5
Georg Schützenhofer - W. Schwarz
Box 13, Folder 5
Schützenhofer, Georg,
1955
Scope and Content Note
3 items, including 2 by R.P.: correspondence with the
photographer, whose photograph of a bird R.P. intended to use in a lecture as
an example of capturing movement in photography.
Box 13, Folder 5
Schütz-Wolff, Johanna,
1950
Scope and Content Note
1 postcard to R.P. by the artist Johanna Schütz-Wolff.
Includes a small drawing by the artist.
Box 13, Folder 5
Schwarz, Paula, Sister,
1957,
undated
Scope and Content Note
3 items: a letter (with envelope) to R.P. by Sister Paula
Schwarz from the Benedictine Abby Mariendonk in Kempen, and an undated draft of
R.P.'s response letter. [Only the first page is present in the archive].
Box 13, Folder 5
Schwarz, Rudolf,
1957-1960
Scope and Content Note
7 items (on 12 leaves), including 4 by R.P. Correspondence
with the architect, discussing the artistic relationship between an architect
and a photographer, and the aesthetics of the photography of architecture.
Schwarz comments on R.P.'s unpublished text about architecture and photography,
writes about his recent book [
Kirchenbau?, 1960], and comments on Martin
Hürlimann's work on cathedrals in England [
English cathedrals, 1950]. The letter by
Schwarz from Dec. 17, 1960 has annotations by R.P. on verso, including a
reference to Dr. Böhm. The typescripts include carbon copies.
Box 13, Folder 5
Schwarz, W.,
1954
Scope and Content Note
2 items, including 1 by R.P.: correspondence with the
architect W. Schwarz regarding reprints of photographs by R.P. intended to
illustrate an article by Dr. Barth in
Baukunst und Werkform. Schwarz lists several
architectural firms ordering reprints of photographs by R.P.
Box 13, Folder 6
Schwippert, Hans,
1953-1961
Scope and Content Note
30 items, including 13 by R.P.: l correspondence with the
architect; concerning photographs of a highrise building of an insurance agency
in Düsseldorf (Provincialversicherung); reprints for
Bauen + Wohnen and
Baukunst und Werkform; photographs of the power
plant Anna, the interior of the Industrie- und Handelskammer (Chamber of
Commerce) in Münster; and a commissioned work for the firm Deutsche
Linoleumwerke. Included is 1 letter from R.P. to the Industrie- und
Handelskammer in Münster. Schwippert and R.P. exchange their views on
contemporary trends in architecture and in photography. R.P. mentions
Schwippert's publication on Otto Pankok. Several letters to R.P. are signed by
Schwippert's secretary S. Hille.
Box 13, Folder 7
Seiler,
1961
Scope and Content Note
1 letter from R.P. to Mr. Seiler, owner of a spinning
mill; regarding photographs by R.P. With a mention of the firm Deutsche
Spinnereimaschinenbau.
Box 13, Folder 7
Siepmann, Ernst,
1953-1966
Scope and Content Note
12 items, including 7 by R.P. : correspondence between
R.P. and Ernst Siepmann of the Siepmann-Werke AG in Beleke/Möhne, concerning
photographs of the firm's office space and products. With a mention of Hugo
Kükelhaus. Siepman invites R.P. to several privately organized musical events.
R.P. mentions a publication for the firm Schubert und Salzer by the graphic
artist and typographer Hermann Virl, for which he contributed photographs [
Schubert & Salzer Maschinenfabrik
Aktiengesellschaft Ingolstadt, 75 Jahre Textilmaschinenbau,
1958].
Several letters are annotated by R.P.
Box 13, Folder 8
Smith, Käthe,
1955-1969
undated
Scope and Content Note
37 items (on 41 leaves), including 12 by R.P. and 1 letter
from Käthe Smith to Agnes Renger-Patzsch (dated March 13, 1969). Two letters by
Smith are undated, including one of which only page 2 is present in the
archive. [Of R.P.'s letter from April 7, 1956 only the first page is present in
the archive]. The letters between R.P. and Käthe Smith, wife of a theology
professor Ronald Gregor Smith at the university in Glasgow, Scotland, are rich
in discussions about contemporary literature, history and philosophy, also
current cultural and political changes in Europe; both strongly criticize the
economic prosperity (Wirtschaftswunder) in Germany. R.P. writes about his trips
to Italy and Sicily and the book project
Bäume, referring in this context to Felix
Hornstein's
Wald und Mensch and George Lesser's
Gothic cathedrals and sacred geometry
[1957-1964]. Smith asks R.P. for an expert opinion regarding a painting by Emil
Nolde; mentions a mutual friend Audrey Walker (Sheriff Principal of
Lanarkshire); and a lecture by Ronald Gregor Smith, written in collaboration
with R.P., published in a Festschrift for Rudolf Bultmann [
Zeit und Geschichte, Dankesgabe an Rudolf Bultmann zum
80. Geburtstag
, 1964]. In her letters from Chicago, Smith describes her
impressions of the United States and offers observations on the cultural
differences between the United States and Europe.
Box 13, Folder 9
Gerda Soergel - H. B. Spitmann
Box 13, Folder 9
Panofsky-Soergel, Gerda,
1962
Scope and Content Note
1 postcard to R.P. by Gerda Soergel [wife of the art
historian Erwin Panofsky]; regarding
Hohenstaufenburgen in Süditalien .
Box 13, Folder 9
Städt. Verkehrs- und Kulturpflegeamt
Soest,
1956-1958
Scope and Content Note
3 letters to R.P.; regarding reprints of photographs of
Soest for a tourist brochure.
Box 13, Folder 9
So Einrichtungshaus Winter,
1963
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to R.P. from the furniture store in Essen.
Box 13, Folder 9
Spiegelglas Verkaufs-Agentur (Cologne,
Germany),
1953
Scope and Content Note
4 items, including 1 by R.P.: correspondence regarding
photographs of the building of the insurance agency Provinzialversicherung in
Düsseldorf. With a mention of the architect Hans Schwippert.
Box 13, Folder 9
Spitman, H. B.,
undated
Scope and Content Note
1 personal letter to R.P. by the daughter of the architect
H. B. Spitman.
Box 14, Folder 1
Stauffacher-Verlag AG, Zürich - Emil
Steffann
Box 14, Folder 1
Stauffacher-Verlag,
1958
Scope and Content Note
2 items, including 1 by R.P.: correspondence with
Stauffacher-Verlag in Zurich, concerning reprints of photographs of churches in
Ottmarsheim and Schlettstadt for
Illustrierte Weltgeschichte [4th ed. 1958].
Box 14, Folder 1
Sophie Stecker Strickwarenfabrik,
1955
Scope and Content Note
2 items, including 1 by R.P. Correspondence concerning
reprints of photographs of industrial buildings. Stecker mentions the Münster
in Westfalen publisher Karl Heinz von Saint-George.
Box 14, Folder 1
Steffen, Dieter,
1964
Scope and Content Note
6 items (on 9 leaves), including 3 by R.P. : an
intellectual exchange with the photographer Dieter Steffen about the current
state of teaching photography in German art schools; also about photography in
advertising (Werbegraphik). Steffen mentions his professional contacts with
Siegfried Remann and Dr. [Walter] Boje [a commission work for Agfa-Werke],
comments on a photography exhibition held in Kiel in August 1964, and refers to
an article about teaching photography in the anniversary issue of
Foto-Information. He also mentions the
photographers Thomas Höpker and Horst H. Baumann. R.P.' s comments about
Steffen's photographs of Holland provide insight into his own artistic
sensitivity (".. die Welt mit dem Staunen des Kindes zu sehen ...").
Box 14, Folder 1
Steffann, Emil,
1954-1955 and undated
Scope and Content Note
11 items (on 12 leaves), including 5 by R.P. :
correspondence with the architect; concerning a commission for R.P. to
photograph the church St. Bonifatius in Dortmund, designed by Steffann. Both
discuss aesthetic details of the photographs. Steffann mentions an upcoming
exhibition of ecclesiatical art in Düsseldorf, in May 1955, organized by the
architect Paul Schneider-Esleben, in which Steffann's work will be represented
in photographs by R.P. With a mention of Hugo Kückelhaus. Two letters by R.P.
are addressed to Pfarrer März of the St. Bonifatius parrish in Dortmund.
Box 14, Folder 2
Edward Steichen - Otto Steinert
Box 14, Folder 2
Steichen, Edward,
1955-1956
Scope and Content Note
5 items, including 3 by R.P. Correspondence with Steichen
as the director of photography at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Steichen's letters are on MOMA letterhead. R.P. asks for permission to show
Steichen's photographic work in his lectures about photography as art "sui
generis"; lists the photographs he would like to show; and comments on
Steichen's acclaimed exhibition
Family of man.
Box 14, Folder 2
Steinert, Otto,
1957-1960
Scope and Content Note
12 items, including 5 by R.P. Steinert's letters to R.P.
are on the letterhead of Staatliche Schule für Kunst und Handwerk Saarbrücken.
Correspondence concerningthe acquisition of reprints from
Die Welt ist schön for the Saarland-Museum,
the city of Essen [the Folkwang Werkkunstschule in Essen], and for the
"deutsches Bildarchiv", a project commissioned to Steinert by the Deutsche
Gesellschaft für Photographie. Also discussed is the possibility of publishing
a book about Hugo Erfurth with the support of Deutsche Gesellschaft für
Photographie. R.P. mentions an unpublished photograph "Dornbusch an der
Landstrasse".
Box 14, Folder 3
Karl Heinz von Saint-George - Sydslesvigs danske
kunstforening
Box 14, Folder 3
Saint-George, Karl Heinz von,
1955
Scope and Content Note
2 items, including 1 by R.P. Correspondence with the
publisher in Münster; concerning reprints and copyrights of photographs by R.P.
for a publication to which Saint-George refers as "Foto-Mappe". With a mention
of Hook, Kroll and the firm H. Biederlack & Co. in Greven.
Box 14, Folder 3
Stockmann, Wynand,
1960 and 1962
Scope and Content Note
5 items (on 7 leaves): letters to R.P. from W[ynand?]
Stockmann from Berlin-Wilmersdorf. Several letters include text by Stockmann's
wife, Josefa. The letter from Nov. 23, 1962 includes an invoice for photographs
by R.P.
Box 14, Folder 3
Strabel, E.,
1956
Scope and Content Note
2 items, including 1 by R.P.: correspondence between R.P.
and the manager of Deutsche Spiegelglas A.G.; concerning the reprint of a
photograph by R.P. showing a technician (Hafenmacher) in Jena [at the Jenaer
Glaswerk Schott & Gen]. The letter by R.P. is annotated.
Box 14, Folder 3
Strauf, Hubert,
1955,
1960,
undated
Scope and Content Note
4 items (on 5 leaves): R.P.'s correspondence with Hubert
Strauf from the firm Strauf und Weiss in Essen. Included is an annotated travel
expense report, and a two-page carbon copy of R.P.' s confidential report
analysing management issues in the photo reproduction section (Reproabteilung)
of an undisclosed firm.
Box 14, Folder 3
Strelow, Liselotte,
1965
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to R.P. by the photographer in Düsseldorf, in
which she comments on a WDR [West Deutscher Rundfunk] television program about
R.P.
Box 14, Folder 3
Stuttgarter Gardinen (Firm),
1954-1956
Scope and Content Note
6 items: correspondence to R.P. from the manufacturer of
curtains in Stuttgart. With a mention of Leonie Reygers at the Museum am
Ostwall in Dortmund, and Eva Noack in Munich.
Box 14, Folder 3
Stüber,
1949
Scope and Content Note
1 postcard to R.P. from family Stüber in Mannbach am
Rhein.
Box 14, Folder 3
Stübing, Rudolf,
1953-1954
Scope and Content Note
2 items, including 1 by R.P.: correspondence with a book
dealer specializing in books on photography in Bielefeld.
Box 14, Folder 3
Süddeutsche Bank,
1954-1957,
undated
Scope and Content Note
11 items, including 6 by R.P. (incl. 1 handwritten note):
correspondence with director Köper in Franfurt am Main, and Mr. Jäckle and
director Polfers in Munich, concerning a commission for R.P. to photograph the
bank's branches in Frankfurt am Main, Mannhein, Munich, Heilbronn and
Offenbach. With a mention of the graphic artist [Hermann] Virl. R.P.'s letter
from March 29, 1954 is annotated on verso.
Box 14, Folder 3
Sydslesvigs danske kunstforening,
1962
Scope and Content Note
4 items (on 5 leaves), including 2 by R.P.: correspondence
with Gynther Hansen at Südschleswigs Dänischer Kunstverein [Sydslesvigs danske
kunstforening] in Flensburg, concerning a joint exhibition of work by R.P. and
by the Danish photographer Keld Helmer-Petersen. The exhibition was planned to
open at Südschleswigs Dänischer Kunstverein in Flensburg in May 1962.
Box 14, Folder 4
Verlag "Sanitäre Technik" - Georg Trump
Box 14, Folder 4
Verlag "Sanitäre Technik",
1954
Scope and Content Note
1 letter by R.P. concerning the copyright for one of his
photographs.
Box 14, Folder 4
Dr. Karl Thomae GmbH,
1954-1955
Scope and Content Note
16 items, including 5 by R.P.: correspondence with the
pharmaceutical firm Dr. Karl Thomae GmbH in Biberach an der Riss (Dr. Carl
Ernst Sänger), concerning a commission to photograph the firm's facilities;
also discussing reprints and retouching. Included is a letter to R.P. from C.
H. Boehringer Sohn regarding the commission. The letter to R.P. dated Nov. 4,
1955 has a drawing on verso.
Box 14, Folder 4
F. Tigges Buch- und Kunsthandlung,
1966
Scope and Content Note
3 letters, including 1 by R.P. concerning photographs for
a calender [
Westfalen-Kalender 1967]. Annotated by R.P.
[Also see correspondence with Agnes R.P. filed in Box 15, F. 11].
Box 14, Folder 4
Verband des Deutschen
Tischlerhandwerks,
1956
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to R.P. by the firm Das Tischlergewerk in Essen
(Organ des Verbandes des Deutschen Tischlerhandwerks); concerning reprints of
photographs of furniture R.P. took at the workshop of Werkstätten J. Dickerhoff
in Bochum.
Box 14, Folder 4
Töpfer, Alfred,
1962
Scope and Content Note
1 letter by R.P. to the firm Alfred C. Töpfer in Hamburg,
in which R.P. accepts an invitation. Annotated by R.P.
Box 14, Folder 4
Trump, Georg,
1959
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to R.P. by the graphic artist and typographer in
Munich. Trump mentions the possibility of a joint project with Ingolstadt
[Deutscher Spinnereimaschinenbau Ingolstadt?], Mrs. Virl [Hermann Virl's
wife?], and comments on a lecture by R.P.
Box 14, Folder 5
Tümpel, Wolfgang,
1949-1958,
undated
Scope and Content Note
24 items, including 9 by R.P. : mainly business
correspondence, including invoices, between R.P. and the jewelry designer and
silversmith and teacher at the Landeskunstschule in Hamburg. Tümpel's letter
from Aug. 11, 1949 provides insight into his workshop. Several letters are
annotated by R.P. or include sketches of lamps, jewelry and other objects in
Tümpel's or R.P.'s hand. With a mention of the furniture manufacturer Josef
Dickerhoff. R.P. mentions a joint exhibition with Frida Schoy and the jewelry
designer and goldsmith Elisabeth Treskow at the Kunstverein Münster in 1955
(opened Oct. 16th). Tümpel mentions exhibitions of his work in Osnabrück,
Schwäbisch-Gmünd and in Hagen in 1958.
Box 14, Folder 6
Uhl, Bruno,
1955
Scope and Content Note
3 items, including 1 by R.P.: correspondence between R.P.
and Bruno Uhl from Agfa Aktiengesellschaft für Photofabrikation in Leverkusen.
Uhl invites R.P. to accept the position of guest lecturer at the recently
established Staatliche Höhere Fachschule für Photographie Köln; suggests the
theme of landscape photography; and also writes about the students and the
faculty of the school.
Box 14, Folder 6
Ullstein GmbH.,
1957
Scope and Content Note
3 items, including 1 by R.P.: correspondence between R.P.
and the editor Danz at Ullstein Aktiengesellschaft Propyläen-Verlag in
Berlin-Tempelhof, asking for a reprint of R.P.'s photograph of the
Erbdrostenhof in Münster, which was included in Theodor Rensing's books about
the architect Johann Conrad Schlaun.
Box 14, Folder 6
Umschau Verlag,
1958-1962
Scope and Content Note
11 items, including 3 by R.P. : correspondence with the
editors of the Umschau Verlag in Frankfurt am Main, Harald Busch and Bernd
Lohse, mainly concerning reprints. R.P. comments on the image quality in one of
his privately published books (... die Sache ins Malerische umgebogen, sehr zu
meinem Kummer). Two letters are addressed to Sabine Renger-Patzsch.
Box 14, Folder 6
Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft (Stuttgart,
Germany),
1957
Scope and Content Note
2 items, including 1 by R.P.: correspondence with the
editor of Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft Herbert Beck. R.P. proposes
publishing a book about portrait photography by Hugo Erfurth, lists names of
people portrayed by Erfurth, and provides technical details about Erfuth's
photographic process.
Box 14, Folder 6
University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill,
1954
Scope and Content Note
2 invoices sent to R.P.; related to the exhibition at the
Person Hall Art Gallery in December 1953.
Box 14, Folder 6
Urban-Verlag,
1949
Scope and Content Note
1 letter by R.P. to the Urban-Verlag in Freiburg in
Breisgau, concerning copyright for his photograph included in
Der romanische Kirchenbau im Elsass [1944] by
Rudolf Kautzsch.
Box 14, Folder 6
U.S. Camera (Firm),
undated [1957?]
Scope and Content Note
1 letter by the editor Mary P. R. Thomas, asking R.P. to
participate in the 1958 edition of the
U.S. Camera.
Box 14, Folder 7
Verbindungsstelle Landwirtschaft/Industrie e.V.,
Essen - Vignold Klischéeanstalt
Box 14, Folder 7
Verbindungsstelle
Landwirtschaft-Industrie,
1956
Scope and Content Note
8 items, including 3 by R.P.: correspondence with Dr.
Schröder-Etzdorf in Essen. Discussed is a commission for R.P. to photograph
"Milchabgabestellen" (places selling milk) for a publication intended to raise
milk consumption. Some letters include sketches by R.P. With a mention of an
article about the project in
Das Fenster (July issue, 1956).
Box 14, Folder 7
Verein der Unternehmer der Textilindustrie im
Industrie- und Handelskammerbezirk Mönchen-Gladbach e.V.,
1951
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to R.P. asking for photographs related to the
theme of cotton production.
Box 14, Folder 7
Vignold Klischéeanstalt,
1957
Scope and Content Note
1 business letter by R.P. to Vignold Klischéeanstalt in
Essen.
Box 14, Folder 8
Virl, Herman,
1951-1958
Scope and Content Note
25 items (on 26 leaves), including 10 by R.P. Correspondence
between R.P. and the graphic artist and typographer, the farmer Karl Stich and
the pharmaceutical firm Medopharm in Munich. Discussed are several commissioned
works, mainly for R.P. , some also for Virl: a printing project at the
Bruckmann KG in Munich; a commission for the firm Deutsche
Spinnereimaschinenbau AG in Ingolstadt [a trade catalog], including reprints
and enlargements; an advertising brochure for a milk farm in Bavaria; a
commission for the Süddeutsche Bank; and a travel brochure and advertisement
for Grünwald near Munich. R.P. mentions taking photographs of a highrise
building in Düsseldorf. In a letter from 1954, Virl mentions a newly published
catalog of Schubert und Salzer in Ingolstadt, and two calenders issued by a
bank. Some letters are annotated.
Box 14, Folder 9
Virl-Gath, Friedel,
1958-1959,
undated
Scope and Content Note
19 items (on 21 leaves), including 4 by R.P. Correspondence
between R.P. and the widow of the graphic artist and typographer Herman Virl.
Also included is an obituary for Herman Virl and a carbon copy of a text by
R.P. in which he commemorates the late Herman Virl. The letters concern
photographs R.P. took of Virl's death mask, Virl's graphic work and house.
Friedel Virl-Gath mentions an article about her late husband in
Münchner Leben ( [Oct.?] 1958) and a book
designed by Virl [
Geburtstagsgeschichten]. R.P. describes his
intentions for the book
Bäume; and also advises Friedel Virl-Gath in
business affairs involving the firm Atelier Professor Virl. Some letters are
annotated.
Box 14, Folder 10
Marianne Vogelsang - Walter Voswinkel
Box 14, Folder 10
Vogelsang, Marianne,
1950
Scope and Content Note
2 letters to R.P. by the dancer, choreographer and
co-director of Mary Wigman Studio in Berlin. Vogelsang asks for reprints of
photographs of her taken before the war, which she would like to include in an
exhibition. Vogelsang describes details of one of the images and mentions her
collaboration with Mary Wigman.
Box 14, Folder 10
Voigtländer & Sohn,
1950
Scope and Content Note
1 invoice from the firm in Braunschweig to the firm O.
Küllenberg in Essen, for an item sold to R.P.
Box 14, Folder 10
Völckers, Otto,
1950,
1955-1956
Scope and Content Note
11 items, including 4 by R.P. Correspondence with the
architect. Letters from 1950 concern reprints for the archive of the firm
Fachverband der Fensterglasindustrie, formerly known as Verein deutscher
Tafelglashütten, in Frankfurt am Main. R.P. lists several of his photographs
with the theme "glass". The letter from 1955-1956 concerns reprints of
photographs of industrial structures designed by Fritz Schupp for an article in
Glasforum. Völckers describes his plans for
articles about glass and architectural forms. With a mention of the architects
Hans Schwippert and Günter Marschall in Marl-Hüls.
Box 14, Folder 10
Voswinkel, Walter,
1952-1953
Scope and Content Note
2 items, including 1 by R.P.: correspondence with Walter
Voswinkel from the firm Graphische Kunstanstalten F. Bruckmann in Munich,
regarding the printing of
Lob des Rheingaus [1953].
Box 14, Folder 11
Martin Wackernagel - Peter Wapnewski
Box 14, Folder 11
Wackernagel, Martin,
1955-1956
Scope and Content Note
5 items, including 2 by R.P.: correspondence with the art
historian in Münster. R.P. expresses his attitude towards individuality as an
aesthetic element in photography ( "... da mich, wie auch beim Porträt das
Individuelle wenig interessiert hat."). Two letters by Wackernagel are on
Westfälischer Kunstverein letterhead and concern reprints of photographs for a
book about trees by Giacomo Jucker from Milan [
Alberi ornamentali in Italia, 1958]. [Pre-war
correspondence with Martin Wackernagel in filed in Box 1, F.10].
Box 14, Folder 11
Wagner, Anne,
1960
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to R.P. The artist from Rumbeck
[Arnsberg-Rumbeck] asks R.P. to photograph her sculptures and vases.
Box 14, Folder 11
Wahl, Victor,
1959
Scope and Content Note
4 items, including 2 by R.P. : focusing on aesthetics in
photography in context of Wahl's plan to publish a book exploring the theme of
human hands in photography. R.P. expresses his opinion about current trends in
photography, lists and describes several of his photographs of human hands, and
refers to a book published by Orell Füssli Verlag which includes his work [
Hände und was sie sagen, 1929]. He also
mentions recent travel to Ingolstadt, Munich, Augsburg, Breisbach, Reydt and
Goch to photograph machines and comments: "... eine rein sachliche Aufgabe,
weitab von Kunst, aber eben wegen der Sachlichkeit sehr angenehm ... Die Mittel
sind dem Gegenstand adaequat". [Of his letter from 1959, April 26, only the
first page is present in the archive].
Box 14, Folder 11
Wien, Waldemar,
1966
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to R.P. by the sculptor; concerning R.P.'s
photographs of his work.
Box 14, Folder 11
Waldthausen, R. von,
1955-1957
Scope and Content Note
6 items, including 2 by R.P. and 1 invoice: correspondence
with the Bergwerkassesor R. von Waldthausen in Essen. R.P. mentions the book
Sehen und Erkennen by Paul Brandt and an
exhibition of his photographic work at the Folkwang Museum in March 1956. In
the context of a commission, Waldthausen recommends to R.P. Kurt [Curt] Edeling
from the chemical firm Theo Goldschmidt AG in Essen. The invoice is from the
Rheinelbe Bergbau Aktiengesellschaft to R.P. and concerns a photograph of the
coal mine Zeche Bonifacius.
Box 14, Folder 11
Walker, Audrey,
1963
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to R.P. from the Scottish photographer in
Glasgow. Walker mentions a book of portraits by Hugo Erfurth [
Hugo Erfurth, Bildnisse, 1961] and their
mutual friends Ronald and Käthe Smith.
Box 14, Folder 11
Wapnewski, Peter,
1954-1962
Scope and Content Note
17 items (on 21 leaves), including 8 by R.P., and 1 letter
by Caroline Wapnewski to R.P.: intense intellectual exchange between R.P. and
the philologist in Heidelberg. In the context of R.P.'s text
Versuch einer Einordnung der Photographie both
discuss the artistic and philosophical aspects of photography. R.P. expresses
his opinion about modern art, especially Willy Baumeister, and the impact of
advertising [Werbung] on photography as an art form and as a profession. R.P.
also relates his photographic work to Ernst Jünger's
Das Sanduhrbuch and to Hermann Friedmann's
books
Die Welt der Formen and
Wissenschaft und Symbol. Both discuss the plan
of a lecture by R.P. at the Amerika-Haus in Heildeberg, and comment on each
other's recent books, R.P.'s
Bäume and Wapnewski's
Hartman von Aue.
Box 15, Folder 1
Ludwig Weber -"Werdendes Abendland an Rhein und
Ruhr"
Box 15, Folder 1
Weber, Ludwig,
1950
Scope and Content Note
2 items, including 1 by R.P.: correspondence with the
editor of the magazine
Das Haus and director of the Öffentliche
Bausparkasse Württemberg; concerning a reprint. With a mention of a photograph
by R.P. published in
Fundamente.
Box 15, Folder 1
Weidenfeld and Nicolson (Firm),
1966
Scope and Content Note
2 items, including 1 by R.P.: correspondence with the
publishing house in London (Michael Raeburn); concerning reprints for an
upcoming book about Holy Roman Empire by Friedrich Heer [
The intellectual history of Europe, 1966].
Annotated by R.P.
Box 15, Folder 1
Weimann, Robert,
1952-1963
Scope and Content Note
13 items, including 3 by R.P.: correspondence with Robert
Weimann in Ingolstadt and Lübbecke. Weimann writes about personnel changes at
the firm Despag [Deutsche Spinnereimaschinen AG in Ingolstadt] and mentions
editing three catalogs of spare parts [Ersatzteilkataloge] produced by Despag
which include photographs by R.P. In the context of the culture prize awarded
to R.P., Weimann mentions an article about R.P. which appeared in the
Essener Allgemeine Zeitung on 14 Sept., 1960.
Weimann reviews extensively the books
Hohenstaufenburgen in Süditalien and
Bäume; mentions an exhibition of R.P.'s work
in Dortmund in 1962 and a biography of R.P. issued in the catalog
Werkstatt Porträt 10. Both mention mutual
friends Herman Virl, [Henner?] Kätelhön and Otto Schmidt.
Box 15, Folder 1
Wenzel, W.,
1953
Scope and Content Note
1 thank-you letter to R.P. for sending a copy of
Schloss Cappenberg. On the letterhead of Stadt
Dortmund, Städtisches Kulturamt.
Box 15, Folder 1
Werbe GmbH,
1954
Scope and Content Note
2 items, including 1 by R.P. : correspondence with Mr.
Figlarek from the firm Die Werbe GmbH; concerning reprints of photographic
images of winter for a greeting card or advertisement [Glückwunschanzeige].
Box 15, Folder 1
Werdendes Abendland an Rhein und Ruhr
[exhibition],
1956
Scope and Content Note
3 items, including 1 by R.P. : correspondence between R.P.
and Dr. Elbern of Villa Hügel in Essen, concerning reprints of R.P.'s
photographs of the cathedral in Aachen, for the exhibition "Werdendes Abendland
an Rhein und Ruhr", organized by the Museum Folkwang and held at the Villa
Hügel.
Box 15, Folder 2
Wilhelm Wessel -
Westfalenspiegel
Box 15, Folder 2
Wessel, Wilhelm,
1950
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to R.P. by the artist, who mentions that his work
is part of a collective exhibition held at the museum in Elberfeld in April and
May 1950. Wessel also comments on Norman Mailer's
Naked and the dead [
Die Nackten und die Toten], and mentions
[Hugo] Kükelhaus.
Box 15, Folder 2
Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung,
1953-1954
Scope and Content Note
7 items (on 8 leaves), including 2 by R.P.: correspondence
with Jakob Funke at the
Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung in Essen,
regarding photographs commisioned for a book project with text by Karl von
Sabel. Funke mentions R.P.'s photograph of an administrative building of the
firm Krupp and a double-portrait.
Box 15, Folder 2
Westfälische Berggewerkschaftskasse,
1956
Scope and Content Note
4 items, including 1 by R.P.: correspondence with Ludwig
Nieman; concerning reprints of photographs of architecture in the Ruhr Region
for the publications
Kristall and
Der runde Bogen [by Adolf Heckel]. With a
mention of Josef Dickerhoff.
Box 15, Folder 2
Westfälischer Kunstverein,
1955
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to R.P. from the Westfälischer Kunstverein in
Münster/Westfalen (Carl Bäufer?) notifying R.P. that his work will be shown in
an exhibition of the former Essener Werkgemeinschaft, 16 September -20 November
1955, at the Westfälischer Kunstverein. With a mention of the artists [Frida]
Schoy, [Elisabeth] Treskow and Lessmann.
Box 15, Folder 2
Westfälische Landes-Bausparkasse (Münster in
Westfalen, Germany),
1964
Scope and Content Note
2 items, including 1 by R.P.: financial business
correspondence.
Box 15, Folder 2
Westfälische Verlagsbuchhandlung Mocker und
Jahn,
1950
Scope and Content Note
1 item: agreement between R.P. and the publisher in Soest;
regarding the book project
Soest.
Box 15, Folder 2
Westfalenspiegel, Münster/Westfalen,
1960-1961
Scope and Content Note
7 items, including 3 by R.P.: correspondence with Clemens
Herbermann regarding the inclusion of photographs by R.P. in various issues of
Westfalenspiegel. R.P. describes his
photographs of cabbage [Grünkohl] and sends hitherto unpublished photographs of
Höxter and Corvey. [Other correspondence with Herbermann is filed in Box 8,
F.6].
Box 15, Folder 3
Theodor Arthur Winde - Karl Woltze
Box 15, Folder 3
Winde, Arthur Theodor,
1956
Scope and Content Note
2 items, including 1 by R.P.: correspondence with the
sculptor in Münster/Westfalen. R.P. comments on Winde's art work called
"Baukasten". Winde mentions a commission to photograph his wooden sculptures in
Essen. Both mention Paul Pieper and Carl Heise.
Box 15, Folder 3
Winkhaus, Gerd Paul,
1956
Scope and Content Note
2 letters, including 1 by R.P.: correspondence concerning
reprints of portrait photographs by R.P. found in the estate of Winkhaus's
mother.
Box 15, Folder 3
Wochatz, Oskar,
1958
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to R.P. by a war-time comrade, who inquires about
reprints of photographs R.P. took during the war in an air-raid shelter.
Box 15, Folder 3
Wolf, Gustav,
1953-1958
Scope and Content Note
7 items (on 10 leaves), including 1 by R.P. :
correspondence with the architect and the "Landesbaupfleger für Westfalen".
Wolf's letters provide insight into his preservation of historic sites in
Westphalia. Wolf asks R.P. for reprints of photographs of Haus Byink by
Davensberg. Included is a copy of Wolf's letter to the president of Arnsberg
[Regierungspräsident]. Wolf mentions R.P.'s portrait photograph of Romano
Guardini. Discussed also is the plan of a lecture by R.P. [See also
correspondence with Wolf filed in Box 16, F.5-7 under topic
Landscape].
Box 15, Folder 3
Woltze, Karl,
1950-1958
Scope and Content Note
5 items: 3 letters by Karl Woltze in Essen-Bredney to
R.P., 1 letter to R.P. by Woltze's daughter Doris, and an invitation to a
lecture by the art historian Walter Paatz. Woltze compares photographs by R.P.
with music and comments on the lecture "Das Stadtbild von Florenz" held by
Paatz on July 23, 1958 at the Kunstring Folkwang in Essen.
Box 15, Folder 4
Wulf, Friedrich,
1956-1962,
undated
Scope and Content Note
13 items (on 18 leaves), including 4 by R.P.: correspondence
with the theologist. R.P. writes about his plans to publish a theoretical
treatise about photography, and comments on a privately printed book
commissioned by Siepmann Werke [
Bilder aus der Landschaft zwischen Ruhr und
Möhne
, 1957]. R.P. also mentions holding a lecture at the Gesellschaft
für Technik und Wirtschaft in Bochum in April 1956, and an article about his
work in
Image, an Eastman House publication [vol. 8, no.
3, 1959)
Box 15, Folder 5
Wunsch - Zweckverband "Naturpark Arnsberger Wald"
Box 15, Folder 5
Wunsch,
1962
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to R.P. regarding rent increase.
Box 15, Folder 5
Fachverband Ziegelindustrie
Nordrhein-Westfalen,
1961
Scope and Content Note
4 items, including 1 by R.P.: correspondence concerning
reprints of the photographs of the coal mines Germania and Katharina, and
several reprints of photographs of Lübeck. With a mention of the architect
Fritz Schupp.
Box 15, Folder 5
Zink,
1960
Scope and Content Note
1 letter by R.P. to Dr. Zink, in which R.P. responds to
criticism concerning his lecture at the Hochschule Hannover.
Box 15, Folder 5
Zwanck, Ernst,
1952-1953
Scope and Content Note
4 letters by R.P. : correspondence with the firm Ernst
Zwanck in Hamburg, concerning an unsatisfactory batch of tea.
Box 15, Folder 5
Zweckverband "Naturpark Arnsberger
Wald",
1962-1966
Scope and Content Note
10 items, including 6 by R.P.: correspondence between R.P.
and the association "Naturpark Arnsberger Wald" (von Wintzingerode), related to
the book project
Im Wald. Also included are 2 letters to the
Chamber of Commerce in Arnsberg.
Box 15, Folder 6
Unidentified post-war correspondence,
1947
- 1966 and undated
Box 15, Folder 6
Bi,
1966
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to addressed to "Lieber Bi", dated Jan. 6, 1966.
With a mention of an [R.P.'s?] photographic archive (Plattenarchiv).
Box 15, Folder 6
Blaue [?], Lotte,
1955
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to R.P. by the sister of Florence Klingender;
notifying R.P. about the death of the art historian Francis Donald Klingender.
Box 15, Folder 6
E. S.
1960
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to R.P. signed E. S.; congratulating R.P. for
being awarded the culture prize. With a newspaper clipping attached.
Box 15, Folder 6
Gräfin [von Cappenberg?],
undated
Scope and Content Note
1 thank-you letter by R.P. addressed to "Hochverehrte
Gräfin". R.P. thanks for her for supporting his book project on the castle of
Cappenberg [
Schloss Cappenberg, 1953], and mentions Prof.
Botzenhart.
Box 15, Folder 6
Höfer, Josef (?),
1958
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to R.P. sent from Capri on Jan. 3, 1958.
Box 15, Folder 6
Ingolstadt [letter from],
Aug. 17, 1966
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to R.P., signature illegible, dated "Ingolstadt,
den 17.8.66"; regarding reprints of R.P.'s photographs of cotton machines.
[Possibly an employee of Deutsche Spinnerei-Maschinenbau AG in Ingolstadt].
Box 15, Folder 6
Lenchen,
1956-1961
Scope and Content Note
4 letters by R.P. to "Lenchen" in Freiburg: R.P. writes
about his book projects
Gestein and
Bäume (calling the latter "... eine
vollkommene Negierung unserer Zeit ...") and a commission to photograph
machines in Ingolstadt [Deutscher Spinnereimaschinenbau Ingolstadt?]; expresses
his opinion about current trends in art and literature (especially abstract art
and Heinrich Böll); and mentions his professional contacts with Ernst Jünger
and Carl Georg Heise.
Box 15, Folder 6
Renger-Patzsch, Albert,
undated
Scope and Content Note
3 items: incomplete copy of a handwritten letter by R.P.
to an unknown person [fhe first page is not present in the archive], in which
R.P. mentions Martin Hürlimann; the last page of a letter in which R.P.
describes his experience of taking photographs of a medieval castle in Italy
[during his trip for the book project
Hohenstaufenburgen in Süditalien?]; and a
handwritten draft of a letter by R.P. to Dr. Thoma, in which R.P. mentions his
work for Ingolstadt [Deutsche Spinnereimaschinenbau AG?] and [Max?] Ettinger.
Box 15, Folder 6
"Verehrteste",
1959
1962
Scope and Content Note
2 letters by R.P. to an unidentified woman, whom R.P.
addresses as "Verehrteste" [most honored lady]. R.P. writes about his passion
for skiing and mentions in this context the photographer Stefan Kruckenhauser;
also writes extensively about his book
Hohenstaufenburgen in Süditalien.
Box 15, Folder 6
W., G.
1956
Scope and Content Note
1 post card to R.P. sent from Stockholm; signed "Holi" [?]
and "G.W. c/o Dr. med. Kurt [?] in Hamburg".
Box 15, Folder 6
Miscellaneous,
1947-1958
Scope and Content Note
12 items: a birthday poem for R.P. dated "Zum 22. Juni
1947", 1 caricature drawing annotated by R.P., 5 obituaries (Annie Schöningh
and Hanno Hahn), an empty postal envelope addressed to R.P. in Wamel, and 3
decorative telegrams to R.P. congratulating him on the culture prize: from
Helmut and Alison Gernsheim, Erich Schott, and Adolf and Aenne Schulte-Guenne;
also a letter to R.P. dated April 14, 1951.
Series II.
Family and other personal correspondence,
1924-1977
Physical Description:
ca. 224 items
Scope and Content Note
This portion of the archive is organized into two subseries: Agnes
Renger-Patzsch and Ernst Renger-Patzsch (from 1966 to 1977), and Personal
correspondence of Albert Renger-Patzsch (from 1924 to 1966).
Series II.A.
Agnes Renger-Patzsch and Ernst Renger-Patzsch,
1966-1977
Physical Description:
134 items
Scope and Content Note
The first subseries comprises the business correspondence of
Renger-Patzsch's widow Agnes Renger-Patzsch and his son Ernst Renger-Patzsch
with various organizations, industrial firms, editors, and friends. The letters
provide information about the range of professional activities relating to
Albert Renger-Patzsch which took place after his death, mainly the reprinting
of his photographs, several exhibitions of his work, lectures, and press
articles. Correspondence filed under Carl Georg Heise (ca. 35 items) , which
also includes letters by Schmoll gen. Eisenwerth, Otto Steinert, Fritz Kempe
and the Sigbert Mohn Verlag, focuses on the reissue of
Die Welt ist schön and the plan for a book
commemorating the late Albert Renger-Patzsch.
Box 15, Folder 7-12
Harry Abrams - Unidentified
1947-1977
Box 15, Folder 7
Harry N. Abrams - Harder,
1966
- 1967
Box 15, Folder 7
Harry N. Abrams, Inc.,
1967
Scope and Content Note
3 items, including 2 by Agnes R.P.: correspondence with
the publishing house (Henriette Goppel) regarding reprints of R.P.'s photograph
of a staircase in the castle in Bruchsal.
Box 15, Folder 7
Aken, Roberto van,
1966
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Agnes R.P. from an estate administrator in
Lugano regarding the death of Ninon Hesse.
Box 15, Folder 7
Arli [?],
1967
Scope and Content Note
1 postcard addressed to Agnes R.P., sent from Denmark.
Box 15, Folder 7
Benscheidt, Karl,
1967
Scope and Content Note
4 business letters to Agnes R.P. regarding reprints.
Box 15, Folder 7
College Art Association of America,
1972
Scope and Content Note
2 items (3 leaves): a letter from CAA in New York (S.A.
Callisen) addressed to Albert R.P. asking him to contribute photographs for the
Educational Lantern Slide Project, and a description of the project. In German.
Annotated by Agnes R.P.
Box 15, Folder 7
Colsman, Adalbert,
1967,
1976
Scope and Content Note
7 items (8 leaves): 5 letters to Agnes R.P. from the
industrialist and art collector, who mentions a book project about R.P. and a
recently opened exhibition of R.P.'s photographic work. Also 1 personal letter
to Ernst R.P. [with envelope] regarding the death of Agnes R.P.
Box 15, Folder 7
Deutscher Spinnereimaschinenbau
Ingolstadt,
1967
Scope and Content Note
1 letter by Agnes R.P. regarding a payment.
Box 15, Folder 7
Dierks,
1966
Scope and Content Note
4 items, including 1 by Agnes R.P.: correspondence
concerning the estate of the late R.P. Included are 2 letters from Dr. Dierks
["Wirtschaftsprüfer"] from the Westfälische Landesbausparkasse in Münster.
Box 15, Folder 7
Evangelische Luisen-Kirchengemeinde (Berlin,
Germany),
1967
Scope and Content Note
4 items, including 2 by Agnes R.P. Concerning the grave of
Frieda Renger-Patzsch in Berlin-Charlottenburg.
Box 15, Folder 7
Foto Prisma,
1967
Scope and Content Note
5 items, including 2 by Agnes R.P.: correspondence with
the editor Heinrich Freytag concerning a lecture by Adolf J. Schmoll gen.
Eisenwerth published by
Foto Prisma in March 1967, which was
illustrated with photographs by R.P. Agnes R.P. comments on an article about
R.P. by Gerhard Kerff. With a mention of Otto Steinert.
Box 15, Folder 7
Friends of Photography,
1973
Scope and Content Note
1 business letter from the Friends of Photography in
Carmel, California to Agnes R.P. Annotated by Agnes R.P.
Box 15, Folder 7
Fuhrmann, Ilse,
1969
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Agnes R.P. by the widow of Ernst Fuhrmann,
sent from Flushing, New York. With a mention of the photographer Lotte Jacobi
and Ernst Fuhrmann's son Arend.
Box 15, Folder 7
Gebrüder-Busch-Kreis,
1972
Scope and Content Note
5 items, including 1 by Agnes R.P. Correspondence with the
organization Gebrüder-Busch-Kreis in Hilchenbach-Dahlbruch [ written by
Wolfgang Burbach] regarding the exhibition
Westfälische Wasserburgen. [Also see checklist
filed in Box 20, F. 11].
Box 15, Folder 7
Harder,
1967
Scope and Content Note
1 letter by Agnes R.P., refering to a list of photographs
by Albert R.P. and an exhibition of his work.
Box 15, Folder 8
Heise, Carl Georg,
1967
and 1977
Scope and Content Note
ca. 35 items (on 38 leaves): professional and personal
correspondence between Carl Georg Heise and Agnes R.P., also with Schmoll gen.
Eisenwerth, Otto Steinert, the Sigbert Mohn Verlag in Gütersloh [Dieter
Struss], and Fritz Kempe at the Staatliche Landesbildstelle Hamburg; mainly
concerning the reissue of
Die Welt ist schön and Heise's plan to publish a
book commemorating the late Albert Renger-Patzsch. Also included is a letter
from Heise to Renger-Patzsch's son Ernst, and a letter from Ernst R.P. to Heise
[from 1977]. Ernst R.P. mentions correspondence between Albert R.P. and Mies
van der Rohe about reissuing
Die Welt ist schön.
Box 15, Folder 9
Daan Helfferich - Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc.
Box 15, Folder 9
Helfferich, Daan,
1967
Scope and Content Note
2 letters from Agnes R.P. to the editor of
Foto. Agnes R.P. writes about the opening
ceremony of an exhibition of R.P.'s work; asks if Helfferich would buy back her
late husband's camera; and responds to Helfferich's question regarding
copyrights of R.P.'s photographs of trees.
Box 15, Folder 9
Henze, Helene,
1967
Scope and Content Note
1 personal letter to Agnes R.P. Henze mentions Rudolf
Grossmann.
Box 15, Folder 9
Hesse-Frielinghaus, Herta,
1966-1967
Scope and Content Note
3 items, including 1 by Agnes R.P. Correspondence with the
director of Städtisches Karl-Ernst-Osthaus-Museum in Hagen; regarding the
inclusion of R.P.'s photographic work in the exhibition
Kunsthandwerk.
Box 15, Folder 9
Hierl, Hubertus,
1967
Scope and Content Note
4 items, including 2 by Agnes R.P. Correspondence with the
photographer Hubertus Hierl concerning Hierl's portrait photographs of Pablo
Picasso. Hierl comments on R.P.'s photographic work, and mentions his own plans
for a documentary film and a televison program.
Box 15, Folder 9
Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, Inc.,
1967
Scope and Content Note
3 items, including 1 by Agnes R.P. Correspondence with the
art editor Roberta Guerette, regarding the copyright for R.P.'s photograph of
the Zwinger in Dresden, for the book by Thomas Patrick Neill
Story of mankind. Included is an illustration
of the Zwinger in Dresden.
Box 15, Folder 10
Lotte Jacobi - Hugo Kückelhaus
Box 15, Folder 10
Jacobi, Lotte,
1966-1969
Scope and Content Note
5 items, including 1 by Agnes R.P. The American-based
photographer Jacobi mentions that an exhibition of R.P.'s photographic work,
curated Hugh L. Edwards, will be held in 1967 at the Art Institute in Chicago.
Jacobi also asks for a copy of a lecture R.P. gave in Dortmund, and offers to
return to Agnes R.P. letters she recieved from Albert R.P. Included is an
invitation to the opening of The New Community Church Art Gallery in New York,
featuring an exhibition of Lotte Jacobi's photographic work.
Box 15, Folder 10
Jünger, Ernst,
1974
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Agnes R.P. Jünger responds to the news about
the death of R.P.'s daughter Sabine. Annotated by Agnes R.P. : a mention of
Frau v. Hügel.
Box 15, Folder 10
Kätelhön, Henner,
1967
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Agnes R.P. Kätelhön mentions his letter to the
Sauerland Verlag.
Box 15, Folder 10
Kempe, Fritz,
1967,
1977
Scope and Content Note
2 letters from the director of Staatliche Landesbildstelle
in Hamburg, one to Agnes R.P. and one to Ernst R.P. In his letter to Agnes R.P.
[1967], Kempe mentions his article about Albert R.P. issued in the magazine
Kamera und Schule. In his letter to Ernst R.P.
[1977], Kempe expresses his interest in acquiring recordings of lectures by
Albert R.P., and photographs ["Gummidrucke"] by Albert's father Robert
Renger-Patzsch.
Box 15, Folder 10
Kerff, Gerhard,
1967
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Agnes R.P. from the photographer, writing
about his article on R.P. published in the September issue of
Foto Prisma, stating that it is based on his
own student notes taken during lectures R.P. held at the Folkwang School in
Essen in 1934. Kerff provides some details about R.P.'s lectures.
Box 15, Folder 10
Klugmann, Hedwig,
1967
Scope and Content Note
2 items: 1 legal document of Das Amtsgericht Bad Salzuflen
concerning mortgages of Hedwig Klugmann, and an envelope.
Box 15, Folder 10
Knaup, Adelheid,
1967
Scope and Content Note
1 personal letter to Agnes R.P. from Adelheid Knaup
(?).
Box 15, Folder 10
Knupp, Karl H.,
1967
Scope and Content Note
7 items, including 2 by Agnes R.P. Correspondence with the
architect and his firm (Hermann Enders) regarding reprints of a photograph of a
winter landscape by R.P.
Box 15, Folder 10
Kreutter, Wolfgang,
1967
Scope and Content Note
1 letter by Agnes R.P. to the German artist. Agnes R.P.
mentions the exhibition of R.P.'s photographic work in Essen, and plans for
another exhibition in Arnsberg.
Box 15, Folder 10
Kückelhaus, Hugo,
1967,
1976
Scope and Content Note
3 letters: 2 to Agnes R.P. [1967] and 1 to Ernst R.P.
[1976). In his letter to Agnes R.P. Kückelhaus writes about photography,
mentions a portrait photograph of Pablo Picasso and Ansel Adams' photograph of
a pinecone. With a caricature drawing.
Box 15, Folder 11
Magdalena Padberg -
Die Zeit
Box 15, Folder 11
Padberg, Magdalena,
1968
Scope and Content Note
1 personal letter to Agnes R.P. in which Padberg writes
about the popularity of her latest book, a biography of Elsa Brändström [
Das Leben der Elsa Brändström, 1968].
Box 15, Folder 11
Rittersche Buch- und Kunsthandlung (Soest,
Germany),
1967
Scope and Content Note
1 thank-you letter to Agnes R.P. with letterhead of
Rittersche Buch- und Kunsthandlung in Soest, regarding an invitation to the
opening of the exhibition of R.P.'s photographic work in Arnsberg. Signature
illegible.
Box 15, Folder 11
Schlensker, Ernst,
1968
Scope and Content Note
1 professional letter by Agnes R.P. to the
Regierungspräsident Ernst Schlensker in Arnsberg concerning Schlensker's draft
of a text about Albert R.P. for a calender [Heimatkalender].
Box 15, Folder 11
Schmoll gen. Eisenwerth, J. Adolf,
1967
Scope and Content Note
2 items: envelope and letter to Agnes R.P. from the art
historian. Schmoll gen. Eisenwerth thanks her for a copy of
Gestein, mentions his lecture about R.P.
published by
Foto Prisma [in March 1967] and the editor
Heinrich Freytag.
Box 15, Folder 11
Schupp, F. (Fritz),
1967
Scope and Content Note
1 personal letter to Agnes R.P. from the architect.
Box 15, Folder 11
Kulturgemeinde Siegen,
1967
Scope and Content Note
2 items, including 1 by Agnes R.P. ; concerning a future
exhibition.
Box 15, Folder 11
Steinert, Otto,
1967
Scope and Content Note
4 items: correspondence with Otto Steinert; regarding the
sale of several of R.P.'s photographs for Steinert's personal collection.
Included is a letter from Sigbert Mohn Verlag in Gütersloh to Otto Steinert,
declining to publish a book about R.P. because of the negative impact of color
television on sales of black and white photography books.
Box 15, Folder 11
F. Tigges Buch- und Kunsthandlung,
1967
Scope and Content Note
2 items, including 1 by Agnes R.P. Correspondence with the
editor Goldstein; regarding photographs by R.P. published in a calendar [
Westfalen-Kalender 1967]. [Also see
correspondence with Albert R.P. filed in Box 14, F. 4].
Box 15, Folder 11
Georg Westermann Schulverlag,
1967
Scope and Content Note
3 items, including 1 by Agnes R.P. ; regarding reprints of
a photograph by R.P. for a new edition of a school book. The photograph was
previously published in the magazine
Camera, no. 4, 1967.
Box 15, Folder 11
Westfälische Landes-Bausparkasse (Münster in
Westfalen, Germany),
1967
Scope and Content Note
1 business letter to Agnes R.P.
Box 15, Folder 11
Woltze, Karl,
1966
Scope and Content Note
1 personal letter to Agnes R.P.
Box 15, Folder 11
Die Zeit,
1967
Scope and Content Note
1 letter by Agnes R.P. to the publishers of
Die Zeit in Hamburg regarding copyright
permission for the architect Karl H. Knupp.
Box 15, Folder 12
Unidentified correspondence with Agnes
Renger-Patzsch,
1967
Box 15, Folder 12
K[?],
1967
Scope and Content Note
1 personal letter to Agnes R.P., sent from a hospital
[Städtisches Krankenhaus] in Soest. K. writes about the significance of R.P.'s
photographic work and mentions that Carl Georg Heise is writing a book about
R.P.
Box 15, Folder 12
V[?],
1967
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Agnes A.P. dated July 4, 1967. The author
writes about the light in the exhibition space in the castle in Arnsberg where
R.P. s photographs were shown; and mentions sending to Agnes R.P. a list of 88
"Sujets" for a publication about R.P. With a mention of Korkmann and Krenz.
Series II.B.
Personal correspondence of Albert Renger-Patzsch,
1924-1966
Physical Description:
ca. 90 items
Scope and Content Note
The second subseries, dating from 1924 to 1966, comprises
personal correspondence of Albert Renger-Patzsch with his mother Frieda
[Johanna Frederike], other relatives and friends.
Box 16
Frieda Renger-Patzsch - Paul Wöller,
1924-1966
Box 16, Folder 1
Renger-Patzsch, Frieda,
1924-1931
Scope and Content Note
48 personal letters (on 49 leaves), including 6 postcards,
all in Sütterlin script, by the mother of R.P. Johanna Fredericke to Albert (28
letters) and his wife Agnes (20 letters). [Needs further analysis. ]
Box 16, Folder 2
Römer, Carl,
1954-1966
Scope and Content Note
12 personal letters, including 1 by R.P. to his
brother-in-law Carl Römer, specialist in internal medicine, and 1 letter from
Carl Römer to Agnes Renger-Patzsch. [Needs further analysis. ]
Box 16, Folder 3
Nina Sackett - Paul Wöller
Box 16, Folder 3
Nina Sackett,
1962
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to R.P. written in English. Sackett writes about
her relationship to R.P.'s son Ernst Norman.
Box 16, Folder 3
Werner, Elisabeth,
1949-1959
Scope and Content Note
10 items (on 13 leaves): personal letters to R.P. by
Elisabeth Werner, a former Zeiss employee in Jena; mainly concerning her
family.
Box 16, Folder 3
Wielfing, Alfred,
1946-1950
Scope and Content Note
3 letters to R.P.
Box 16, Folder 3
Wittke, Elisabeth,
1949
Scope and Content Note
1 personal letter to R.P.
Box 16, Folder 3
Wöller, Paul,
1946-1954
Scope and Content Note
7 items (on 9 leaves), including 2 by R.P.: personal
correspondence with the carpenter Paul Wöller from Gützkow near Greiswald.
Wöller signs his letters as "Opa". One of the letters by R.P.'s includes an ink
drawing.
Series III.
Correspondence by topic,
1952-1967
Physical Description:
ca. 100 items
Scope and Content Note
This series contains two groups of correspondence organized by
topic.
The first group consists of ca. 22 items of correspondence of
Agnes and Ernst Renger-Patzsch related to the sale of Albert Renger-Patzsch's
photographic estate. Letters between Agnes Renger-Patzsch and Helmut Gernsheim
concern Gernsheim's efforts to sell the estate to the University of Texas.
The second group comprises ca. 80 items of correspondence of
Albert Renger-Patzsch related to protection and preservation of the natural
environment in Soest and the Möhnesee region.
Box 16, Folder 4
Photographic estate of Albert Renger-Patzsch,
1966-1967
Box 16, Folder 4
Bene, Siegfried,
1967
Scope and Content Note
1 business letter (on 3 leaves) to Agnes R.P. from the
director of the firm C. H. Boehringer Sohn, Siegfried Bene, concerning the
estate of Renger-Patzsch, including copyright issues.
Box 16, Folder 4
Ford-Werke,
1967
Scope and Content Note
2 items: a letter to Agnes R.P. signed "Bi", and an envelope.
On letterhead of Ford-Werke AG. in Köln-Niehl. With a mention of Helmut
Gernsheim, Hoya, Walter Boje, and Henner.
Box 16, Folder 4
Gernsheim, Helmut,
1966-1967
Scope and Content Note
10 items (ca 20 leaves). The letters provide insight into the
conflict between Agnes R.P. and Helmut Gernsheim caused by Agnes R.P.'s refusal
to sell R.P.'s photographs to the University of Texas. Included are 5 copies of
a letter by Gernsheim and 2 copies of a letter by Agnes R.P.
Box 16, Folder 4
Renger-Patzsch, Ernst,
1967
Scope and Content Note
9 items (20 leaves): professional correspondence between Ernst
Renger-Patzsch and Walter Boje. With a mention of Helmut Gernsheim. Included is
a copy of a letter from Albert R.P. to Walter Boje from March 30, 1966, 3 lists
of negatives, and one list of photographs.
Box 16, Folder 5-7
Landscape [
Landschaft],
1952-1953
Scope and Content Note
Ca. 80 items (or 111 leaves). R.P. expresses his protest against
cutting trees and replacing them with commercial advertisements, such as Cola
Cola ads. He corresponds with several city and regional officials and
institutions, mainly Gustav Wolf and F. Runge, the association
Ruhrtalsperrenverein, and several mainly local newspapers. Also included are
typescripts and offprints containing articles by R.P. and Hugo Kükelhaus, one
letter by Wilhelm Lienenkämper, and letters by the industrialist and art
collector Adalbert Colsman and by Herbert Kayser from Wuragrohr GmbH. Arranged
chronologically by date. [Other correspondence with Gustav Wolf is also filed
in Box 15, F.3.]
Series IV.
Writings by Albert Renger-Patzsch,
1954-1958,
undated
Physical Description:
circa 30 manuscripts
Scope and Content Note
Typescripts of mostly unpublished lectures and articles by Albert
Renger-Patzsch. Most have proofreading corrections; some are annotated; several
are present in more then one version. The writings are listed in alphabetical
order. If the title is not stated by the author, the text is quoted with its
first words. Unidentified texts by Albert Renger-Patzsch are filed in Box 18,
F. 12.
Box 17, Folder 1
"Als ich der freudlichen Aufforderung Professor Steinerts,
zu Ihnen von meiner Auffassung der Photographie zu sprechen, zusagte
..."
Scope and Content Note
4 leaves. R.P.'s views on photography.
Box 17, Folder 2
"Architekt und Fotograf"
Scope and Content Note
14 leaves: 8 leaves of a lecture on architecture and
photography. Also included are 6 leaves marked by R.P. as unedited part 1.
Box 17, Folder 3
"Ausweg aus dem Chaos, einige Gedanken zur heutigen
Situation der Fotografie"
Scope and Content Note
9 leaves and 1 small typed clipping with a quote from Hippolyte
Taine. 2 complete versions, and 2 additional versions of page 3 only. All
versions signed. R.P. writes about subjectivity in photography and mentions Man
Ray, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, and Otto Steinert.
Box 17, Folder 4
"Autobiographisches ..."
Scope and Content Note
11 leaves: 2 versions. An autobiographical text detailing R.P.'s
development as a photographer.
Box 17, Folder 5
"Der Mensch - dem Technischen hörig - zerstört seine
eigene Wohnung"
Scope and Content Note
4 leaves. An article protesting against the tree removal on
local streets. R.P. refers to Ernst Jünger's essay
Das abenteuerliche Herz.
Box 17, Folder 6
"Die Vergewaltigung der Landschaft zu kunstfotografischen
Zwecken ist hier verboten"
Scope and Content Note
1 leaf. Annotated. An article protesting the artificial
beautification of landscape in photography.
Box 17, Folder 7
"Einiges über Portraitfotografie, über Hände und
Händeportraits"
Scope and Content Note
3 leaves. Annotated: "Photographie für Alle". An article about
the photography of hands.
Box 17, Folder 8
"Ersatzteilaufnahmen"
Scope and Content Note
12 leaves: 3 versions, each on 4 leaves. One version is titled
by hand "Ersatzteilkatalog" and includes numerous editing corrections. R.P.
reflects on the difficulties of rendering industrial spare parts of cotton
machinery. [Also see correspondence related to R.P.'s commission for Deutsche
Spinnerei-Maschinenbau AG in Ingolstadt.]
Box 17, Folder 9
"Fotografie und Kunst"
Scope and Content Note
8 leaves: 2 copies, each on 4 leaves. An article about
photography as an independent visual art form.
Box 17, Folder 10
"Fotografischer Mord", also titled:
"Verantwortungsbewusstsein",
Scope and Content Note
6 leaves: 2 versions, 2 copies of each version. One is
extensively annotated by R.P.; another has the title
"Verantwortungsbewusstsein" written by hand, and the
title
"Fotographischer Mord" crossed out. A critical text
accusing contemporary photography of sensationalism, indiscretion and
inhumanity. R.P. refers to Ernst Jünger, praises the photographic work of Henri
Cartier-Bresson, Bill Brandt and Hilmar Pabel, and mentions Edward Steichen's
exhibition
The family of man.
Box 17, Folder 11
"Hochkonjunktur"
Scope and Content Note
2 leaves. Leaf 2 has a drawing in red crayon on verso. A biting
critical review of a photography exhibition held in Stuttgart: "... eine
Blütenlese fotografischer Eintagsfliegen in anspruchsvoller Aufmachung."
Box 17, Folder 12
"Landschaft"
Scope and Content Note
18 leaves, including 1 ms.: 3 versions. An article on landscape
photography.
Box 17, Folder 13
"Pflanzenaufnahmen"
Scope and Content Note
10 leaves. An article about photography of plants; with detailed
technical suggestions.
Box 17, Folder 14
"Photogen"
Scope and Content Note
3 leaves. An attempt to define the word "photogenic".
Box 17, Folder 15
"Ueber Architekturaufnahmen"
Scope and Content Note
5 leaves, including 3 ms. An article on photography of
architecture.
Box 17, Folder 16
"Über bestimmte Dinge wird man sich erst klar, wenn man in
Lagen gerät, durch die man gezwungen wird, darüber nachzudenken"
Scope and Content Note
14 leaves: 4 copies. A speech given by R.P. to an organisation
of artisans [Handwerskammer] on the occasion of the departure of its manager.
R.P. describes the impact of mass society, electric power and motorization on
the artisan's profession.
Box 17, Folder 17
"Ueber die Grenzen der Photographie. Kann die Photographie
den Typus wiedergeben?"
Scope and Content Note
8 leaves: 2 copies. R.P. rejects the idea that (portrait)
photography can depict a certain type of person, representative of his times,
race or profession. He argues that "type' is an abstract idea.
Box 17, Folder 18-20
"Versuch einer Einordnung der Fotografie",
1958 and
undated
Scope and Content Note
3 versions: 19 leaves, ca. 23 leaves, and 19 leaves. All
versions are substantially annotated. One is dated 1958. R.P. defines
photography as an art form in its own right.
Box 18, Folder 1
"Vom Sinn der Photographie und der Verantwortlichkeit des
Photographen"
Scope and Content Note
20 leaves: 10 leaves of a lecture on the meaning of photography
and the responsibility of the photographer; and 2 copies (4 leaves each) of an
earlier version, both incomplete: leaves 7-10 only. Also included are 2 leaves
with a fragment of the lecture. (2 copies)
Box 18, Folder 2
"Vortrag München"
Scope and Content Note
17 leaves. Annotated. Leaf 17 has a technical drawing in pen in
verso. A lecture on aesthetics of photography, including landscape photography.
Box 18, Folder 3-4
"Vortrag Münster"
Scope and Content Note
44 leaves: 2 copies (16 and 28 leaves), partially annotated.
R.P. reflects on the evolution of modern photography and the problematic
relationship between photography and art, discusses landscape photography and
gives his own definition of photography.
Box Box 24* , Folder 1
Oversize items from Box 18, f.3
Scope and Content Note
2 items: 1 leaf from
Zeitbilder with illustrations of photographs of
flowers by R.P.; and 1 leaf with text by R.P. "Der geistige Standort der
Fotografie": an undated offprint from
Der Westfalenspiegel, issued on the occasion of an
exhibition of R.P.'s photographic work at the Museum am Ostwall in
Dortmund.
Box 18, Folder 5
"Weltausstellung der Photographie"
undated
[1964?]
Scope and Content Note
2 leaves: 2 copies (each on 1 leaf). A critical review of an
exhibition organized by Karl Pawek [
Weltausstellung der Photographie, held in 1964 in
Hamburg].
Box 18, Folder 6
"Wenig bekannt ist, dass mit fotografischen Mitteln ein
restlos ähnliches Porträt ganz selten zu erzielen ist ..."
Scope and Content Note
3 leaves. R.P. writes about the limits of professional portrait
photography which he feels will slowly die out.
Box 18, Folder 7
"Wo steht die Fotografie heute? Lichtbildvortrag von
Albert Renger-Patzsch gehalten am 12. März 1956,
1956
Scope and Content Note
20 leaves: 17 leaves of a lecture in which R.P. tries to define
aesthetics of photography as a graphic medium "sui generis" in its relation to
technology and art. Among others, R.P. mentions David Octavius Hill, Hugo
Erfurth and Edward Steichen's exhibition
The family of man. Also included are 3 annotated
leaves of an earlier version. The lecture was held at the Staatliche
Landesbildstelle Hamburg. [See also poster filed in Box 20, F. 4. ]
Box 18, Folder 8
Ziele, von Albert Renger-Patzsch. D.W.B., Bad Harzburg,
Scope and Content Note
1 leaf. A text about the future goals of photography as an art
form.
Box 18, Folder 9
Obergutachten,
1954
Scope and Content Note
2 leaves. An expert opinion of R.P. written in connection with a
lawsuit between Photo-Selliers and Förderanlagen Wilhelmshaven.
Box 18, Folder 10
"Am Rande des Industriegebietes, nahe der alten Stadt
Soest, wird in einer kleinen Werkstadt ein altes Handwerk geübt ..."
Scope and Content Note
1 leaf. Annotated. An article about the printing workshop of
Hermann Kätelhön. Typed on verso of the letterhead of Haus Kätelhön.
Box 18, Folder 11
"Vortrag Münster A"
Scope and Content Note
4 leaves: 2 copies (2 leaves each); annotated. A text about
photography as a profession.
Box 18, Folder 12
Unidentified texts,
Scope and Content Note
8 leaves: 5 unidentified texts , including one about Walter
Gropius's student dormitory at Harvard University, as an example of the
illusion of movement in architecture. Includes a quote from Kant.
Series V.
Ephemera,
1927-1980
Physical Description:
circa 345 items
Scope and Content Note
This series contains ephemeral publications predominantly related
to Albert Renger-Patzsch. It is organized in three subseries: Press clippings,
Offprints and other printed ephemera, and Lists of photographs and books.
Series V.A.
Press clippings,
1927-1980
Physical Description:
ca. 274 items
Scope and Content Note
Press Clippings includes ca. 270 loose press clippings, and 4
notebooks. The notebooks were compiled by Renger-Patzsch before the war,
possibly during the early 1930s. Each notebook contains a large number of
pasted-in press clippings of reviews and illustrations dating from ca. 1927 to
1931. A large part of Renger-Patzsch's archive at the Museum Folkwang in Essen
was destroyed during an air raid in 1944, so many of the press illustrations in
the note books are the only remaining reproductions of Renger-Patzsch's pre-war
photographs. The reviews provide information about the reception of his pre-war
work, book projects, exhibitions, and other professional activities. The loose
press clippings date from 1960 to 1966 and are arranged by topic: the
Photokina 1960, the 1960 Culture Prize awarded to
Renger-Patzsch, his obituaries, and commemorative exhibitions. The majority was
sent to Renger-Patzsch from the clipping service "Der Ausschnitt" in
Berlin-Lichterfelde. Miscellaneous press clippings, some unrelated to
Renger-Patzsch, are filed in Box 19, F. 8 and 9.
Box 18, Folder 13
Notebook with press clippings,
1929-1932
Scope and Content Note
1 item: a ledger with pasted-in press clippings of photographs
by R.P.; ink captions.
Box 18, Folder 14
Notebook with press clippings,
1930-1936
Scope and Content Note
1 item: a notebook with pasted-in press clippings of articles
about R.P. and of his photographs.
Box 19, Folder 1
Notebook:
Ringel-Renger-Rosen
Patzsch
, pt. 1,
1927-1931
Scope and Content Note
1 item: part 1 of a ledger with pasted-in press clippings
about R.P. and illustrations of his photographs. Ms. label:
"Ringel-Renger-Rosen Patzsch I", several ink captions; one ms. copy.
Box 19, Folder 2
Notebook: "Ringel-Renger-Rosen Patzsch," pt. 2,
1929-1931
Scope and Content Note
1 item: part 2 of a ledger with pasted-in press clippings
about R.P. and illustrations of his photographs. Ms. label:
"Ringel-Renger-Rosen Patzsch II"; several ink captions; one article in English
with ms. German translation; two typescripts; ink captions.
Box 19, Folder 3
Photokina 1960 [International Photo- and Cine
Exhibition]
Scope and Content Note
24 items, including 6 filed in Box 24*, F.2: press clippings
and 1 offprint with articles about the
Photokina 1960 exhibition in Cologne. The offprint
includes Iris Baum's article "Photokina 1960 - neue Impulse?" (in:
Das Drogisten-Fachblatt, Darmstadt, undated). [See
also ephemera filed in Box 20, F. 5.]
Box Box 24* , Folder 2
Oversize from Box 19, f. 3
Scope and Content Note
6 items from Box 19, F. 3: press clippings about the
Photokina 1960 [International Photo- and Cine Exhibition]
exhibition in Cologne.
Box 19, Folder 4
Culture Prize
1960
Scope and Content Note
Ca. 184 press clippings, including 3 filed in Box 24*, F.2:
articles about the culture prize awarded to R.P. and Fritz Brill by Deutsche
Gesellschaft für Photographie. R.P. is referred to as "Photograph der Neuen
Sachlichkeit" (photographer of New Objectivity). [See also ephemera filed in
Box 20, F. 6.]
Box Box 24* , Folder 2
Oversize from Box 19, f. 4
Scope and Content Note
3 items: press clippings about the 1960 Culture Prize awarded
to R.P. and Fritz Brill by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie.
Box 19, Folder 5
Obituaries for Albert Renger-Patzsch,
1966
Scope and Content Note
19 items: press clippings with R.P.'s obituaries, and an
incomplete offprint with text by Ernst Renger-Patzsch
Mein Vater Albert Renger-Patzsch. [Filed in Box
24*, F.3.]
Box Box 24* , Folder 3
Oversize from Box 19, F. 5
Scope and Content Note
1 item: incomplete offprint with text by Ernst Renger-Patzsch,
Mein Vater Albert Renger-Patzsch.
Box 19, Folder 6
Ruhrlandmuseum Essen,
1966
Scope and Content Note
9 items (17 leaves, including 2 filed in Box 24*, F.3): press
clippings about the commemorative exhibition of photographs by R.P. held in
1966 at the Ruhrland- und Heimatmuseum in Essen. [Also see typescript of
opening speech by Schmoll gen. Eisenwerth, filed in Box 20, F. 8 and
correspondence.]
Box Box 24* , Folder 3
Oversize from Box 19, F.6
Scope and Content Note
2 items: press clippings with articles about the commemorative
exhibition of photographs by R.P. held in 1966 at the Ruhrland- und
Heimatmuseum in Essen.
Box 19, Folder 7
Staatliche Landesbildstelle Hamburg,
1971
Scope and Content Note
8 items (11 leaves): press clippings with articles about the
commemorative exhibition of photographs by R.P. held in 1971 at Staatliche
Landesbildstelle Hamburg; and 4 pages of a typescript text about R.P. by Fritz
Kempe, titled
Albert Renger-Patzsch und seine Schüler, Beginn der
modernen Fotografie
.
Box 19, Folder 8
Miscellaneous press clippings related to Albert
Renger-Patzsch,
1962-
1977,
undated
Scope and Content Note
8 items (9 leaves), including 2 filed in Box 24*, F.4:
articles on R.P. by Albert Dalhoff and Ernst Hopmann, and Wolfgang J. Müller
(on
Norddeutsche Backsteindome); an abridged version
of Georg Reinhardt's lecture
Die Fotografie und die Wirklichkeit held at the
opening of an exhibition of R.P.'s photographic work at the AGFA-GEVAERT AG in
Leverkusen; also articles by Werner Langer and Fritz Kempe. [The articles by
Ernst Hopmann and Fritz Kempe are filed in Box 24*, F.4.]
Box Box 24* , Folder 4
Oversize from Box 19, F. 8
Scope and Content Note
2 items: press clippings with articles about R.P., one by
Ernst Hopmann, one by Fritz Kempe.
Box 19, Folder 9
Other miscellaneous press clippings,
1927-1980,
undated
Scope and Content Note
16 items, including 6 filed in Box 24*, F.4: mainly articles
about photography by various authors, incuding Alex Binder, Eva Fehsenbecker,
Hugo Loetscher, and J. R. Washington; an article by Siegried Unseld about Ninon
Hesse; an obituary for Rudolf Schwarz; an article about Kurt Goerttler's
lecture
Die Welt der Werte im Denken unserer Zeit , and
press clippings about George Grosz [in: Box 24*, F.4]. Also included is a press
clipping in English about an engineering project called "Wind Tunnel" [related
to Ernst Renger-Patzsch?, filed in: Box 24*, F.4 ].
Box Box 24* , Folder 4
Oversize from Box 19, F. 9
Scope and Content Note
6 items: miscellaneous press clippings, including 4 related to
George Grosz, one article from 1973 by Hugo Loetscher about photography in the
United States, and a press clipping in English about an engineering project
called "Wind Tunnel" [related to Ernst Renger-Patzsch?].
Series V.B.
Offprints and other printed ephemera,
1927-1972
Physical Description:
circa 50 items
Scope and Content Note
The subseries includes 9 offprints with texts by Renger-Patzsch,
containing illustrations of his photographs, or texts by other authors. Other
printed ephemera in this subseries are arranged chronologically. Two groups are
arranged by topic: the
Photokina 1960, and the 1960 Culture Prize awarded
to Renger-Patzsch.
Box 20, Folder 1
Offprints,
1927-1972,
undated
Box 20, Folder 1
Bey, Paul,
1928-1929
Scope and Content Note
1 leaf: "Neue Wege in der Lichtbildkunst" by Paul Bey; in:
Velhagen & Klasings Monatshefte (43.
Jahrg., 1928/29, 2. Bd). Includes a photograph of the coal mine Zeche
Königsborn by R.P.
Box 20, Folder 1
Klingender, F. D. (Francis Donald),
1928
Scope and Content Note
1 offprint (3 leaves): "Grotesque ornament in Mediaeval art"
by Francis Donald Klingender; in:
The Connoisseur (Nov. 1928). Includes R.P.'s
photographs of the choir-stall in the monastery of Kappenberg, Westphalia.
Box 20, Folder 1
Renger-Patzsch, Albert,
[pre-war]
Scope and Content Note
1 leaf depicting photographs of plants by R.P.; in:
Zeitbilder. Filed in: Box 24*, F. 1.
Box 20, Folder 1
Renger-Patzsch, Albert,
[pre-war]
Scope and Content Note
1 leaf: "Photographie und Kunst". An article by R.P. issued
on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Behnhaus in Bad Harzburg. Source
and date unknown.
Box 20, Folder 1
Renger-Patzsch, Albert,
1927
Scope and Content Note
1 offprint: "Photographie und Kunst" by R.P.; in:
Photographische Korrespondenz ("Sonderabdruck",
63. Bd. Nr. 3 (752), 1 März 1927, pp. 80-82). Includes 2 photographs by R.P.
Box 20, Folder 1
Renger-Patzsch, Albert,
1966
Scope and Content Note
1 leaf: "Der Amateur und der Gegenstand" by R.P.; in:
Photoblätter (Heft 1, 1966).
Box 20, Folder 1
Renger-Patzsch, Albert,
1972?
Scope and Content Note
1 leaf: "Der geistige Standort der Fotografie" by R.P.; in:
Der Westfalenspiegel, undated Issued on the
occasion of an exhibition of R.P.'s photographic work at the Museum am Ostwall
in Dortmund. Filed in Box 24*, F. 1.
