Hans Hildebrandt was a German art historian and critic and Lily Uhlmann Hildebrandt, a glass painter, photographer, and journalist. They were long active in Stuttgart, Germany, where their house was a gathering place for artists, including Ida Kerkovius, Johannes Itten, and Oskar Schlemmer. They formed an art collection that comprised works by Josef Albers, Alexander Archipenko, Willi Baumeister, Hans Brühlmann, Lyonel Feiniger, Hannah Höch, Adolf Hölzel, Johannes Itten, Ida Kerkovius, Paul Klee, Oskar Schlemmer, and Kurt Schwitters. Their papers provide a comprehensive record of their life and work reflecting their interests in modern art, architecture, and the decorative arts, as well as their close friendships with leading painters and architects. The papers consist of personal and professional correspondence, manuscripts, research notes, bibliographies, publications, and photographs.

Hans Hildebrandt was a German art historian and critic whose interests spanned modern art, architecture, and the decorative arts. Among his publications are Die Architektur bei Albrecht Altdorfer (1908), Adolf Hölzel als Zeichner (1913), Wandmalerei (1920), Die Kunst des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts (1924-1931), and Oskar Schlemmer (1952). Hildebrandt and his wife Lily Uhlmann Hildebrandt, a painter and a collaborator on his research projects, maintained close friendships with painters and architects, among them Willi Baumeister, Hans Brühlmann, Walter Gropius, Hannah Höch, Adolf Hölzel, Johannes Itten, Wassily Kandinsky, Le Corbusier, Oskar Schlemmer, Hermann Stenner, Henry van de Velde, and Wilhem Wagenfeld.

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