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Schardt (Alois) Papers and Photographs, 1917-1983, undated, bulk
1917-1956
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Title: Alois Schardt papers and photographs
Date (inclusive): 1917-1983, undated (bulk 1917-1956)
Number: 910172
Creator/Collector:
Schardt, Alois J. (Alois Jakob), 1889-1955
Physical Description:
6.5 Linear Feet
(18 boxes)
Repository:
The Getty Research Institute
Special Collections
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles 90049-1688
reference@getty.edu
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10020/askref
(310) 440-7390
Abstract: This collection is comprised of
photographs, negatives, lectures, transcripts, correspondences, and other ephemera
documenting Alois Schardt's career as a German art historian and museum director before,
during, and after World War II. After being forced from job at the National Gallery of
Berlin in 1933, Schardt was censored by the Nazi party. He left for the United States in
1940 with his photographs. The bulk of this collection consists of photographs and
negatives, primarily of Christian art and architecture. His photographs for publication can
also be found in the collection. Also present are lectures in English, transcripts of
Schardt's published and unpublished manuscripts, and personal and professional
correspondence.
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Language: Collection material is in German
Biographical / Historical Note
Alois Schardt was a German art historian and museum director. He was already serving as
director of the Moritzburg Museum in Halle in 1933 when he was appointed director of the
National Gallery in Berlin, replacing Ludwig Justi, who was forced from his job by the
Nazis. Schardt was dismissed within months, and his newly-hung galleries, like those of
Justi before him, were not opened to the public. Later he was forbidden to teach at the
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, to speak in public, or to publish. He left for
the United States in 1940, bringing some installation photographs with him.
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Alois Schardt papers and photographs, 1917-1983, undated, The Getty Research Institute, Los
Angeles, Accession no. 910172.
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa910172
Cataloging (brief) completed January 29, 1993 by JMD.
Cataloging (full) completed August 19, 1994 by JMD.
Scope and Content of Collection
Schardt's papers document part of the Nazis' movement against Expressionist art in the
1930s. Included are approximately 30 photographs of galleries he had hung in the
Kronprinzen-Palais and the Moritzburg Museum, and roughly 100 photographs of works by
Expressionist artists such as Willi Baumeister, Paul Klee, and Wilhelm Lembruck. Some of
these photographs, like that of Klee's
Wintergarten, may be
unique images of a now lost or destroyed work. The papers also contain correspondence
related to his dismissal from the National Gallery Berlin, as well as manuscripts of his
published and unpublished writing on many aspects of art history and art criticism. Also
present is limited professional and personal correspondence up until his death in 1955, and
a wide variety of photographs of Christian art and architecture (mainly German) from the
Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods.
Arranged in three series: , , .Series I.
Correspondence and ephemera
Series II. Writings and lectures
Series III. Photographs and negatives
National-Galerie (Germany).
Städtisches Moritzburg-Museum.
National socialism and art
Christian art and symbolism -- Germany.
Art museum directors -- Germany.
Expressionism (Art) -- Germany.
Photographs, Original
Negatives -- 20th Century.
Schardt, Alois J. (Alois Jakob), 1889-1955
Rust, Bernhard
Barlach, Ernst, 1870-1938.
Baumeister, Willi, 1889-1955.
Feininger, Lyonel, 1871-1956.
Gurlitt, Hildebrand.
Justi, Ludwig
Lehmbruck, Wilhelm
Marc, Maria
Nierendorf, Karl
Klee, Paul