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Guide to the Eugen Neuhaus Papers, 1879-1963
BANC MSS C-B 965
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Collection Title: Eugen Neuhaus Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1879-1963
Collection Number: BANC MSS C-B 965
Creator: Neuhaus, Eugen, 1879-1963
Extent:
Number of containers: 2 boxes
Repository: The
Bancroft Library
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Languages Represented:
English
Collection is open for research.
Copyright has not been assigned to The Bancroft Library. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts
must be submitted in writing to the Head of Public Services. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Bancroft
Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which
must also be obtained by the reader.
[Identification of item], Eugen Neuhaus papers, BANC MSS C-B 965, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
- Paintings, watercolors and miscellaneous photographs have been removed to the Pictorial Collections.
This small collection of papers, gift of Neuhaus' son, Robert Neuhaus, December 29, 1964, includes correspondence, sketchbooks
and loose sketches, photographs of his work, announcements of lectures, scrapbooks of clippings relating primarily to his
painting, and personalia.
Eugen Neuhaus, painter and professor of art at the University of California, Berkeley, was born in Barmen, Germany, on August
18, 1897. After his graduation from art schools in Kassel and Berlin, he came to California in 1904. From 1907 he taught drawing
at the University of California and, in 1923, established the Art Department. He also lectured in the history and theory of
art at Mills College from 1918 to 1927, wrote books on the appreciation of art and on American art, and continued to paint,
specializing in landscapes.
Additional biographical information may be obtained from the transcript of his oral history interview,
BANC MSS C-D 4075.