G. Cramer Oude Kunst Gallery Records

box 329, folder 13

1946

Physical Description: 7 items

Scope and Contents

Document of the business partnership of Gustav and Hans Max Cramer, various invoices, a congratulatory poem, and a statement by the director of the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie.

box 329, folder 14-15

1947

Physical Description: 12 items

Scope and Contents

Included are documents issued by Stichting Nederlandsch Kunstbezit and Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, a typescript regarding a 15th century French manuscript, and four copies of the journal Van Maand to Maand.

box 329, folder 16

1948

Physical Description: 10 items

Scope and Contents

Included are documents issued by Stichting Nederlandsch Kunstbezit and Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, documents regarding Margot Cramer; and import permissions for two bronze statues referred to as Ratto delle Sabine and Ercole [by Giovanni da Bologna?], issued by Italian authorities.

box 330, folder 1

1949

Physical Description: 9 items

Scope and Contents

Photocopies of various documents, financial documents, printed matter.

box 330, folder 2

1950

Physical Description: 5 items

Scope and Contents

Financial documents, rent contract, press clipping.

box 330, folder 3

1951

Physical Description: 5 items

Scope and Contents

Letters received regarding taxation.

box 330, folder 4

1952

Physical Description: 3 items

Scope and Contents

Letter from German authorities regarding import of artworks, printed matter, and a copy of Die Haager Vertragswerke on economic cooperation between Germany and Israel.

box 330, folder 5

1953

Physical Description: 65 items

Scope and Contents

Receipts written to clients for artworks sold at auction for the benefit of the National Disaster Fund.

box 330, folder 6

1956

Physical Description: 3 items

Scope and Contents

Legal documents regarding Gustav and Gertrud Cramer and Johanna Willemina van Eden; and copy of a school certificate for Catharina Helena Cramer.

box 330, folder 7

1957

Physical Description: 2 items

Scope and Contents

Receipt for a painting by Jan Steen to the Dudley Peter Allen Memorial Art Museum, and a press clipping about a painting by Lorenzo di Credi.

box 330, folder 8

1958

Physical Description: 7 items

Scope and Contents

Press clipping about the painting Orpheus by Paris Bordone, and various documents and printed matter reagarding Stichting Volksgezondheidszorg (public health fundation).

box 330, folder 9-18

1959-1963

Scope and Contents

Gustav Cramer's tax documents and other financial documents.

box 330, folder 19

1960-1964, undated

Physical Description: 20 items

Scope and Contents

Various circular letters sent to clients between 1960 and 1964.

box 330, folder 20

1961

Physical Description: 6 items

Scope and Contents

Invoices received from Firma Gebr. de Kok, printed matter, a press clipping.

box 330, folder 21

1963

Physical Description: 23 items

Scope and Contents

Invoices and receipts from a trip to Switzerland in 1963. Beilaws of Stichting Oude Kunst-en Antiekbeurs.

box 331, folder 1

1964

Physical Description: 2 items

Scope and Contents

Program of a musical concert held at the house of Cramer-Deurvorst.

1965-1966, 1977

Physical Description: 19 items

Scope and Contents

Press clippings regardings the painting Juno by Rembrandt and a color transparency.

box 331, folder 2

Regular size

Physical Description: 9 items

box 837*, folder 2

Oversize

Physical Description: 9 items

box 931, folder 28

Color transparency

Physical Description: 1 item

box 331, folder 3

1970s

Physical Description: 16 items

Scope and Contents

Various printed matter regarding Hans Max Cramer's professional activieties.

box 331, folder 4

1970-1977

Physical Description: 14 items

Scope and Contents

Press clippings of advertisements for the gallery.

box 331, folder 5

1973

Physical Description: 2 items

Scope and Contents

Commission agreement between Hans Max Cramer and Heinrich Becker. Dutch and German versions. Lists of artworks are included.

box 331, folder 6

1974-1975

Physical Description: 2 items

Scope and Contents

Press clipping of an article about Hans Max Cramer.

box 331, folder 7

1976

Physical Description: 1 item

Scope and Contents

Typescript of a lecture given at the Rotary Club on 20 October 1976.

box 331, folder 8

1978

Physical Description: 4 items

Scope and Contents

Press clippings of articles about Hans Max Cramer.

1981

Physical Description: 9 items

box 331, folder 9

Commission agreement

Physical Description: 3 items

Scope and Contents

Signed commission agreement between E. Lemberger and Hans Max Cramer regarding the sale of a painting by Jacopo del Sellaio from the estate of Ernst Proehl. Copy of a check.

box 331, folder 10

Printed matter of the Kamer van Koophandel en Fabrieken voor 's-Gravenhage

Physical Description: 6 items

box 331, folder 10.1

1983

Physical Description: 2 items

Scope and Contents

Hans Max Cramer's commission agreement with the collector W. van Aalst.

box 331, folder 11

1985

Physical Description: 1 item

Scope and Contents

Tax statement issued by Sotheby (Mak van Waay) in Amsterdam.

box 331, folder 12

1993

Physical Description: 1 item

Scope and Contents

Letter sent by Hans Max Cramer to Dienst Bouwen en Wonen in The Hague.

box 331, folder 13-22

undated

Scope and Contents

Printed matter, press clippings, several business cards, stationary, various receipts, postcards and greeting cards, and handwritten notes. Some items are advertisements for the Oude Kunst gallery in The Hague, Gustav Cramer's gallery in Berlin and Max Cramer's gallery in Kassel. Present is a printed anouncement of an exhibition organized by Curt Valentin of artworks by Henry Moore at the Buchholz Gallery (folder 16), and several typed or handwritten lists of artworks with prices (folder 18). Also present is a plan of an appartment executed by hand in pencil and watercolor (folder 21), and printed ephemera from the time of the Third Reich (folder 22).

By topic, 1873-1990s, undated

Scope and Contents

The materials in this group date from 1873 to the late 1990s and include predominantly personal documents of the various members of the Cramer family, such as passports and other identification cards, school records, legal documents, and family photographs. Also present are lists of artworks from the private collections of Hans Georg von Arnim, Meta van Dam, Eisenmann-Schneider, and the Henschel family; several architectural plans by Giachem Arquint; a collection of newspapers and magazines predominantly from the time of World War II; a collection of press clippings; and papers documenting an exhibition held in 1939 at the G. Cramer Oude Kunst gallery in The Hague of artworks by the Hungarian artist István Zádor. Several files document Hans Max Cramer's community and professional engagements in urban development initiatives in The Hague, the Rotary Club, and CINOA [Confédération Internationale de Négociants en Oeuvres d'Art]. Personal family photographs are also present. Various notes and other printed matter ar filed at the end.

Filed with this group are numerous invoices and a few commission agreements which at the gallery were not filed together with the Accounts files (Series II.A.). Present are several prewar and wartime invoices and commission agreements, including invoices written to the art historian and Nazi agent Erhard Göpel and to the director of the Dresden Gemäldegalerie Hans Posse who was in charge of collecting artworks for Adolf Hitler's planned art museum in Linz, Austria, the so-called Sonderauftrag Linz.

box 326, folder 1

[Arnim] Hans Georg von Arnim estate, undated

Physical Description: 1 item

Scope and Contents

Carbon copy of typescript. Only pages 5 and 6 are present.

[Bosch] Carnival painting by Hieronimus Bosch, 1962

Physical Description: 5 items

Scope and Contents

Press clippings.

box 326, folder 2

Regular size

box 932*, folder 2

Oversize

Physical Description: 1 item

box 827, folder 1-6

CINOA papers, 1990-1991, undated

Language of Material: English.

Scope and Contents

Meeting minutes, reports and other papers issued by the Confédération Internationale de Négociants en Oeuvres d'Art. Most documents are photocopies. Included are a typescript by Richard Crewdson and printed matter issued by the Art Loss Register. Some CINOA papers are also filed with the Series II.A. Account files.

CINOA papers from the 1962 meering are filed with Series II.A. Account files (box 397 folder3)

Cramer family, 1901-1981, undated

box 326, folder 3-6.2

Gustav Cramer, 1891-1953, undated

Scope and Contents

Most documents are from the 1930s and the 1940s. Well documented is Gustav Cramer's exclusion from the Reichskammer der Bildenden Künste in Berlin. Also present are several statements written by various people in 1945 regarding Gustav Cramer's conduct as a Dutch citizen under the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. Included are personal medical records.

Hans Max Cramer, 1934-1991, undated

box 823, folder 1-6

Legal documents, 1954-1976

Scope and Contents

Various legal documents of Hans Max Cramer signed and stamped by a notary. Included is Hans Max Cramer's will from 1976.

box 326, folder 7-12

Other documents, 1934-1978, 1981, undated

Scope and Contents

Included are, among others, Hans Max Cramer's school diplomas; several letters received from Harald von Majewski; documents regarding transfer of ownership of the gallery in 1941 and in 1961 after the death of Gustav Cramer, typescripts of articles written by Hans Max Cramer, and a legal document from 1976 signed by Hans Max Cramer and his wife Ada. Some items from the time of the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands document Hans Max Cramer's participation in the obligatory Reichsarbeitsdienst (Reich Labour Service). Several small photographs taken at the labour camp are present.

Writings by Hans Max Cramer, 1963, 1981-1991, undated

box 824, folder 1

1961-1963

box 824, folder 2

1978, 1981

box 824, folder 3

1984-1985

box 824, folder 4

1987

box 824, folder 5

1988

box 824, folder 6

1990

box 824, folder 7

1991

box 824, folder 8

undated

box 326, folder 13-15

Hugo Cramer, 1885-1953

Scope and Contents

Included are, among others, Hugo Cramer's birth certificate, a legal document regarding his emigration to United States, legal documents written by Hugo Cramer in New York, his banking records with the First National Bank of New York from 1942 to 1944; his address book from 1948; and documents and letters regarding his death in 1950.

box 327, folder 1-4

Margot Cramer, 1925-1953

Scope and Contents

School records, immunization record, certificates, personal letters received, notes, savings account book.

box 327, folder 5-8

Max Cramer, 1873-1916

Scope and Contents

Included are, among others, Max Cramer's Militär-Pass [military passport] from 1873; several postcards to wife Bernardine, dated 1896; an unidentfied manuscript; numerous certificates and printed matter which trace Max Cramer's professional career as an art dealer; press clippings of articles about his death; and letters of condolences.

box 327, folder 9

Gertrud Reisewitz [Gertrud Cramer Reisewitz], 1960-1962, undated

Physical Description: 13 items

box 327, folder 10

Cramer family in Kassel, 1901-1935, 1961, undated

Physical Description: 20 items

Scope and Contents

Various documents regarding Gustav Cramer's ancestors in Kassel. Included are original documents; transcripts from Staatsarchiv Marburg, dated 1935; and transcripts from the records of the Jewish community in Grabenstein.

box 834

Other family documents, 1936-1977, undated

Physical Description: 8 items

Passports and other ID cards, 1938-1949, 1962-1977

Physical Description: 15 items

Scope and Contents

Passports, driver's licenses, and other ID cards of Gustav Cramer, Hans Max Cramer, and other members of the Cramer family.

box 334, folder 2

Gustav Cramer

Physical Description: 5 items

box 334, folder 3

Hans Max Cramer

Physical Description: 6 items

box 334, folder 4

Other Cramer family members

Physical Description: 4 items

box 334, folder 5-9

Photographs, undated

Scope and Contents

Photographs of various members of the Cramer family and friends. Included is a photograph of Hans Max Cramer with friend Harald von Majewski. Photographs of the gallery space in The Hague are filed with Series III. Photographs.

box 834

Various, 1936, 1945, 1948, undated

Scope and Contents

A copy of Die Nürnberger Gesetze vom 15. September 1935 und das Ehegesundheitsgesetz vom 18. Oktober 1935; printed matter; press clippings, including one about B. Katz; signature stamp of Hans Max Cramer; finger prints; and a Martha Washington dollar bill with a press clipping.

box 830, folder 1-5

Drugcentrum Javastraat papers, 1981

Container Summary:

Scope and Contents

Hans Max Cramer's correspondence with legal firms and municipal authorities, reports, and press clippings regarding a drug addicts rehabilitation center in The Hague.

box 333, folder 1

[Dam] Meta van Dam collection, 1950-1954

Physical Description: 4 items

Scope and Contents

Four lists of artworks.

box 829, folder 1-5

Dutch Art Dealers Association papers, 1987

Container Summary:

Scope and Contents

Correspondence of members, meetings reports, expense reports of the Vereeniging van Handelaren in Oude Kunst in Nederland. Most documents are photocopies.

box 333, folder 2

Eisenmann-Schneider auction, 1906

Physical Description: 1 item

Scope and Contents

Handwritten list of artworks with prices.

box 333, folder 3-4

Henschel collection, 1934, 1958, undated

Scope and Contents

Invoices and lists of works from 1934 and 1958.

box 835, folder 1-4

IBM Magnabelt recording tapes, undated

Container Summary:

Invoices and commission agreements, 1929-1994

Physical Description: 80 items

box 333, folder 5

1929-1939

Physical Description: 4 items

Scope and Contents

Included are invoices and commission agreements from the firm China-Bohlken, D. L. J. Damme, Dr. Erasmus, S. Frey, Hans Hartig, Katholisches Pfarramt in Bergen auf Rügen, the firm Leonhard Press, Ludwig Rössler, Adolf Wolffenberg, and others.

box 333, folder 6

1940-1942

Physical Description: 12 items

Scope and Contents

Included are invoices and commission agreements with Meta van Dam, Hans Posse (included are two photographs), J. M. R. Schülein (at the bank Gebrüder Teixeira de Mattos), and Mr. Sonnthal from Cologne.

box 333, folder 7

1943-1944

Physical Description: 14 items

Scope and Contents

Included are invoices and commission agreements with Erhard Göpel, Museum Linz [Hans Posse], director of the Commerzbank in Berlin Gustav Pilster, C. E. Wessel in Hamburg, and A. M. de Wild in The Hague.

box 333, folder 8

1961

Physical Description: 15 items

box 333, folder 9

1962

Physical Description: 14 items

box 333, folder 10-10.1

1963

Physical Description: 12 items

box 333, folder 11

1964-1965

Physical Description: 6 items

box 333, folder 19

1994

Physical Description: 3 items

box 334, folder 1

Kamer van Koophandel en Fabrieken voor Amsterdam papers, 1936-1943

Physical Description: 23 items

Scope and Contents

Also included are two letters received from Rotterdamsche Bankvereeniging.

Newspapers, magazines, and press clippings, 1940s-1990s

Container Summary:

Language of Material: English.

Scope and Contents

Among the newspapers and flyers are German and Dutch wartime Nazis-associated publications, such as Deutsche Zeitung in den Niederlanden, National Zeitung, Das Reich, De Residentiebode, Signal, Volk en Vaderland, and Het Vaderland. Also present are two issues of Aufbau, an American newsletter published during World War II by the German-Jewish Club in New York City; the Dutch underground press during World War II Oranje-Bulletin; and Dutch newspapers issued immediately followig the liberation of the Netherlands, such as De Bevruding [ Bevryding] and De Nieuwe Amsterdammer.The press clippings are predominantly of articles about Hans Max Cramer and the G. Cramer Oude Kunst gallery, art fairs and auctions in the Netherlands, and other current events and developments in Dutch art trade.Press clippings regardings the painting Juno by Rembrandt are shelved in Series V.B. under the dates 1965-1966, 1977 (box 331 folder 2 and box 837* folder 2).Press clippings regarding the painting Carnival by Hieronimus Bosch are shelved in Series V.B. under the topic Bosch (box 326 folder 2).Press clippings reagarding the Albert Loeske estate are shelved in Series V.B. under the dates 1928-1930 (box 932* folder 1).

Issues of newspapers and magazines, 1939-1981

box 837*, folder 1

Aufbau, 1940

Physical Description: 2 items

box 841, folder 1

De Bevruding [Bevryding], April 1945

Physical Description: 10 items

box 838*, folder 1

Het Binnenhof, 1981

Physical Description: 2 items

box 934*, folder 5

Het Dagblad, 1948

Physical Description: 1 item

box 842*, folder 1-3

Deutsche Zeitung in den Niederlanden, 1941, 1944, 1945

Physical Description: 26 items

box 841, folder 3

Feldzug in Polen, 1939

Physical Description: 1 item

Scope and Contents

A German military propaganda publication by Franz Wynands, issued by Deutscher Verlag in Berlin, about the invasion of Poland in September 1939.

box 838*, folder 2

Het Financieele Dagblad, 1981

Physical Description: 2 items

box 838*, folder 3

Haagsche Courant, 1981

Physical Description: 5 items

box 838*, folder 4

National Zeitung, 1940

Physical Description: 4 items

box 838*, folder 5

The New York Times, 1950

Physical Description: 1 item

box 841, folder 2

De Nieuwe Amsterdammer, 1945

Physical Description: 2 items

box 839*, folder 1

Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant, 1945, 1959-1960

Physical Description: 10 items

box 839*, folder 2

NRC Handelsblad, 1981

Physical Description: 1 item

box 841, folder 4

Oranje-Bulletin, 1944

Physical Description: 6 items

box 839*, folder 3

Het Parool, 1945

Physical Description: 14 items

box 934*, folder 1-4

Das Reich, 1944-1945

Physical Description: 18 items

box 840*, folder 1-4

De Residentiebode, January 1945-April 1945

Physical Description: 83 items

box 837*, folder 3

Signal, 1945

Physical Description: 3 items

box 839*, folder 4

De Telegraaf, 1943, 1981

Physical Description: 2 items

box 934*, folder 6

Trouw, 1945

Physical Description: 2 items

box 933*, folder 1-6

Het Vaderland, January 1945-May 1945, 1960, 1981

Physical Description: 96 items

box 839*, folder 5

Volk en Vaderland, 1941, 1945

Collected press clippings, 1940s-1990s

box 841, folder 5-20

Regular size

box 935*, box 936*

Oversize

Publications, 1961-1997, undated

Physical Description: 38 items

box 828, folder 1

Artifund Nederland N.V., 1991

Physical Description: 1 item

Scope and Contents

Prospectus.

box 828, folder 2

Bärenreiter-Verlag calendar Musica, 1976

Physical Description: 1 item

box 828, folder 3

Cramer gallery catalogs, 1961-1964, undated

Physical Description: 10 items

Scope and Contents

Nine catalogs and a mailing envelope.

box 828, folder 4

De Haagse Galerij, 1990

Physical Description: 1 item

Scope and Contents

Catalog of a sales exhibition held on 18 Februar 1990 at De Haagse Galerij in The Hague.

box 833, folder 1

Desk calendar Collector's Agenda, 1991

Physical Description: 1 item

Scope and Contents

Desk calendar with color illustrations of artworks. Unused.

box 833, folder 2

Envoy, 1968

Physical Description: 1 item

Language of Material: English.

Scope and Contents

Volume 1, no. 1 issue of the periodical Enviy. It includes a section on the painting Madonna of Leo X, attributed to Raphael.

box 833, folder 3

Epoca, 1967

Physical Description: 1 item

Language of Material: English.

Scope and Contents

October 8, 1967 issue of the Italian weekly Epoca. It includes an article on the painting Madonna of Leo X, attributed to Raphael.

box 833, folder 4

Kunst & Antiek Journal, 1997

Physical Description: 2 items

Scope and Contents

Two copies of November 1997 issue.

box 833, folder 5-6

Pictura Antiquairs Nationaal B.V.[PAN], 1993

Physical Description: 6 items

Language of Material: English.

Scope and Contents

Two folders and press clippings. The folders contain photocopies of Hans Max Cramer's correspondence, PAN reports and other printed matter issued by PAN, and photocopies of press clippings. PAN documents are also slelved with Series II.A. Account files, in box 833, folders 5-6.

box 833, folder 7

Russel Advocaten, 1991

Physical Description: 2 items

Scope and Contents

Two memorandums regarding Haags Gemeentenmuseum.

box 833, folder 8

Various printed matter, 1963, 1991, undated

Physical Description: 9 items

Scope and Contents

Pages and photocopies of pages from various publications.

box 833, folder 9-10

Vereniging Rembrandt, Nationaal Fonds Kunstbehoud 1984-1985

Physical Description: 2 items

Scope and Contents

Reports for 1984 and 1985.

box 836*

Wall calendar, 1980

Physical Description: 1 item

Scope and Contents

A wall calendar for the year 1980 issued by Hans M. Cramer Oude Kunst.

box 825, box 826

Rotary Club papers, 1978-1981, 1989

Container Summary:

Scope and Contents

Reports, meeting agendas, meeting minutes, and lists of members of the Rotaryclub s'-Gravenhage Noord. Photocopies. Also included are invoices and some correspondence.

box 832, folder 1-4

Traffic circulation plan papers, 1981

Container Summary:

Scope and Contents

Hans Max Cramer's correspondence with the government authorities of the city of The Hague concerning an urban reconstruction project. Most documents are photocopies but some original letters and printed matter are included.

box 831, folder 1-8

Willemspark development plan papers, 1980, 1992

Scope and Contents

Hans Max Cramer's correspondence with various municipal organizations and legal firms in The Hague concerning an urban development project. Included are several architectural plans, reports, and printed matter. Most documents are photocopies.

box 334, folder 10-13

[Zádor] István Zádor exhibition, 1939

Physical Description: 38 items

Scope and Contents

Items related to an exhibition of paintings, drawings and prints by the Hungarian artist István Zádor which was held at the G. Cramer Oude Kunst gallery in February 1939. Included are lists of artworks, invoices, press clippings, printed matter, and typescript notes about the exhibition and the artist.