Assorted papers relating to Bauhaus designers, 1919-1984

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Summary

Creators:
Getty Research Institute. Research Library
Abstract:
The collection consists of assembled material from the Bauhaus years of 1919-1933, as well as material influenced by Bauhaus designers up to 1984. Includes photographic prints, typescripts, offprints and publications, original graphics, clippings, sketches and drawings, weavings, curricula, and correspondence.
Extent:
4.0 linear feet (5 boxes, 1 flat file folder)
Language:
Collection material is in German and English.

Background

Scope and content:

This assembled collection contains printed materials, drawings, manuscripts,photographs and correspondence from the years 1919-1933, the span of 14 years when the Bauhaus existed. The collection also includes later items, from scattered years to 1984, that show the on-going influence of the Bauhaus. This influence may be traced in the letters from the more contemporary artist Peter Schwarze-Heisterkamp (Blinky Palermo). The compilation includes photographic prints, essays and offprints, graphics, clippings, sketches, weavings, curricula and correspondence. Items had been gathered into bundles (Konvolut) by topic, by the previous owner(s).

Represented from the Bauhaus period are such artists, architects and historians as Sigfried Giedion, Gustav Hassenpflug, Walter Tralau, Arieh Sharon, Hans Eckstein, Helmut Krüger, Heinz Borchers, Karl H. Haupt, Erich Mrozek, Robert Michel, Ella Bergmann-Michel, Walter Dexel, Carl Schlemmer, Oskar Schlemmer, Lucia Moholy, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Franz Kalivoda, Margaret Leischner, Anni Albers, Josef Albers, Gunta Stadler-Stölzl, Grete Reichardt, Rosa Berger, M. Kurshuk, Léna Meyer-Bergner, Hannes Meyer, Otto Rittweger, Joost Schmidt, Martin Elsaesser, Arthur Schmidt, Hugo Häring, Mart Stam and Heinz Loew. One box is devoted to material from Heinz Loew (student of Joost Schmidt) and contains essays, drawings, photographs, clippings, papers from the Bauhaus-Archiv Museum für Gestaltung and correspondence.

This broad assemblage of papers by and about Bauhaus designers contains numerous examples of their works and enhances the other Bauhaus collections in the Research Library of the Getty Research Institute.

Arrangement note

The collection is arranged in one series, organized by artist and topic.

Acquisition information:
Acquired February 1992 from a dealer who assembled the collection.
Physical location:
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Rules or conventions:
Archives, Personal Papers, and Manuscripts

Access and use

Location of this collection:
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, CA 90049-1688, US
Contact:
(310) 440-7390
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