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Schardt (Alois) Papers and Photographs, 1917-1983, undated, bulk 1917-1956
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Series I. Correspondence and ephemera, 1917-1963, 1983, undated

Physical Description: 0.42 Linear Feet (1 box)

Scope and Content Note

Series I. Correspondence and ephemera: approximately 60 items, including carbon copies of Schardt's outgoing correspondence, detailing his increasing difficulties with the Nazi government; and correspondence with Bernhardt Rust (Reich minister of science, education, and popular culture) and the bureaucrats in Halle, especially from 1933 to 1940. Includes four letters from Ernst Barlach (1922-1934). A few letters date from after the war and are from others involved in the controversies surrounding Expressionist art, such as the dealers Hildebrand Gurlitt and Karl Nierendorf. Also included is correspondence with Franz Marc's widow Maria; letters covering Schardt's difficulties finding employment in the Los Angeles area (1940-1956), where he had settled with his family upon emigrating; and letters regarding his involvement in the local arts community.

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Arranged by topic.
box 1, folder 1

Official correspondence enumerated in inventory, 1917-1956

box 1, folder 2

Official correspondence, 1931-1936

box 1, folder 3

Official papers and translations, 1934-1946, 1956

box 1, folder 4

Professional correspondence and papers, 1934-1946, 1983

box 1, folder 5

Correspondence and announcements regarding teaching and lecturing, 1942-1955

box 1, folder 6

Correspondence regarding Friedrich Loos paintings, 1934-1960

box 1, folder 7

Personal correspondence, 1933-1952

box 1, folder 8

Ernst Barlach letters received, 1922-1934, 1963

box 1, folder 9

Brochures for Bildungsanstalt Hellerau undated

box 1, folder 10

Newspaper clippings, Entartete Kunst , 1937

box 1, folder 11

Janet Flanner's New Yorker article on Hitler's looting of art, 1947

box 1, folder 12

American Society for Aesthetics, 1948-1950

box 1, folder 13

Miscellaneous, undated

 

Series II. Writings and lectures, 1921-1967

Physical Description: 2.92 Linear Feet (7 boxes)

Scope and Content Note

Series II, Writings and lectures: contains much of Schardt's published writing, including fourteen pieces for the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (1921); offprints of articles, manuscripts, typescripts, and preparatory material for his books Franz Marc and Das Initial. Unpublished materials include two versions of his dissertation on human proportion in Egyptian and Greek sculpture; a typescript for a book on the principal characteristics of German art (1933); a manuscript and typescript for a book on Lyonel Feininger, and an (unfinished?) manuscript and typescript for a book on German art from 1900 to 1940. Schardt also wrote approximately eighty occasional or course lectures in English on a wide variety of topics in the arts.

Arrangement

Arranged by topic.
 

Das Initial, undated

box 2, folder 5

Manuscript

 

Photographs of illustrations

box 2, folder 6

Papers

box 3

Photographs

 

Die Kunst des Mittelalters undated

box 4, folder 1

Manuscript

box 4, folder 2

Photographs

box 4, folder 3-4

Plates

 

Franz Marc materials, 1936-1967, undated

box 2, folder 2

Papers

box 2, folder 3

Photographs

box 2, folder 4

Maria Marc correspondence, 1946-1955

 

Lyonel Feininger material, undated

box 5, folder 1

Manuscript

box 5, folder 2

Transcript

box 5, folder 3

Proposed dissertation, 1917

box 5, folder 4

Dissertation, 1917

box 5, folder 5

Notes on humor, bibliography undated

 

Published Materials, 1900-1940, undated

box 7, folder 2

Articles on artists and criticism, undated

box 6, folder 5

Eingruppierung der Jazzmusik, undated

box 7, folder 1

German Art (typescript), 1900-1940

box 6, folder 1

Kunsterlebrusse, 1926

box 2, folder 1

Offprints, 1921-1934

box 6, folder 4

Project for tour for German art books 1939

box 6, folder 2-3

Wesensmerkmale der deutschen Bildenden Kunst , 1933

 

Lectures and photographs, 1947, undated

box 8, folder 1

"Art Under the Nazis," undated

box 8, folder 7

"Berlin," undated

box 7, folder 3-6

English lectures, 1947

box 7, folder 7

"What Is Art?" 1947

box 7, folder 8

"What Is Art?"; "Art and the Single Man," 1947

box 8, folder 2

"What Makes Art Expressive," undated

box 8, folder 3-5

Various subjects, undated

box 8, folder 6

Miscellaneous notes and transcripts, undated

 

Series III. Photographs and negatives, 1936-1950, undated

Physical Description: 4.17 Linear Feet (10 boxes)

Scope and Content Note

Series III contains images of the galleries in the Kronprinzen-Palais of the National Gallery, the Moritzburg Museum, and of individual Expressionist works already described. Includes approximately 1,500 photographs of Christian art and architecture, much of it unidentified and unsorted, principally of churches and their decoration, paintings and plastic arts, and Medieval manuscripts. Also includes approximately 700 negatives matching some of the photographs.

Arrangement

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box 8, folder 8-9

Berlin exhibition installation photographs, undated

 

Photographs--General 1936, 1950, undated

box 9, folder 5

Christian art: cathedrals, basilicas (exterior and interior), undated

box 9, folder 7

Christian art: mignonettes, undated

box 9, folder 6

Christian art: paintings, frescoes, undated

box 9, folder 2

Expressionist art, 20th century (not Berlin or Halle), undated

box 9, folder 4

Franz Marc Ausstellung, 1936 August 19

box 9, folder 8

Glass plate - G. Marcks, undated

box 9, folder 3

H. J. Kallman photographs and letter, 1950

box 9, folder 1

Moritzburg Museum, Halle, undated

box 13

Painting, drawings, etchings, architecture, sculpture, and illuminated manuscript pages, undated

box 18, folder 2

Negatives, undated

 

Photographs of architecture undated

box 11, folder 1

Architecture, 12th - 16th century

box 11, folder 2

Architecture, architectural elements (exterior and interior), 12th - 16th century

box 10, folder 1

Architecture, cathedrals, basilicas, schloß, rathaus (exterior and interior), 12th - 16th century

 

Photographs of cathedrals undated

box 12, folder 1

Cathedral interiors

box 12, folder 2

Cathedral interior, decorative objects, paintings, sculpture

 

Christian art undated

box 14

Paintings, sculpture

box 15

Paintings, frescoes

box 17, folder 1

Paintings, illuminated manuscripts, tapestries

box 17, folder 2

Sculpture, carved objects

box 16, folder 1

Sculpture, decorative objects

box 18, folder 1

Negatives

Container List
Correspondence and ephemera,
Writings and lectures,
Photographs and negatives,
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