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Bergmann-Michel, Ella, 1896-1972. Papers of Ella Bergmann-Michel and Robert Michel, ca. 1922-1971.

Title: Papers of Ella Bergmann-Michel and Robert Michel, ca. 1922-1971.

A fragmentary portion of the papers relating to the work of Ella Bergmann-Michel as a painter and film-maker and to the work of her husband Robert Michel as a painter, self-taught architect and architectural photographer. The correspondence, mostly falling between 1916-1971, but excluding the years 1929-1930 and 1934-1943, is of a predominantly routine professional nature and discusses sales and exhibitions as well as Bergmann-Michel's two short documentary film projects "Wo wohnen alte Leute", 1931, and "Alle muessen helfen" ("Erwerbslose kochen fuer Erwerbslose"), 1932. Among the correspondents are: Herwarth Walden and Der Sturm, Karl Nierendorf, Otto Ernst Sutter, Walter Gropius, Joris Ivens, Julius Bissier, Piet and Nel Zwart, Hans Hildebrandt, Carl Buchheister, Karl Otto Goetz, Herta Wescher, Albert Renger-Patzsch, Käthe Steinitz, Willi Baumeister, Hannes Meyer, and others. Manuscript writings by Ella Bergmann-Michel and Robert Michel detail various projects and the work of the association "Das neue Frankfurt." The collection further includes a prospectus for the documentary "Alle muessen helfen" and an annotated copy of the film script of "Wo wohnen alte Leute." With a two page proof of a woodcut pamphlet, miscellaneous personal papers, printed material (mostly press clippings relating to the two documentaries by Ella Bergmann-Michel), and 4 photographs of Robert Michel and his work.

ArchivalResource: ca. 100 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78802717 View

Banting, John, 1902-1972. Letter to Dr. Herta Wescher, 1959 August 27.

Title: Letter to Dr. Herta Wescher, 1959 August 27.

The painter John Banting answers Herta Wescher's request for biographic information and reproductions of his works for the book she is writing about collages. The artist sends autobiographical information, and describes a few collages which were exhibited in the 1936 surrealist show in London, Paris and New York. He quotes E.L.T. Mesens, who considers him a "veteran of modern art", and closes his letter with the statement: "I have never been a pure abstractionalist although some of my things are abstract. Mostly they are semi-abstract."

ArchivalResource: 1 letter.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82544817 View

Gorin, Jean, 1899-1981. Letter : Nice [France], 1954 September 30.

Title: Letter : Nice [France], 1954 September 30.

The collection comprises a two-page letter of Jean Gorin addressed to "Chère Madame"[Herta Wescher?], and two photographs. At the request of his correspondent, the artist sends 3 photographs of his works (only 2 in this coll.) to be used as illustrations in her article. Two of them are constructions in relief, which, he says, cannot be perceived from the photographs. He had started this kind of construction in 1930, when only Arp and he used that technique. The photos represent the three periods of his evolution towards "le dégagement complet du plan." Since the photographs are black and white, he also explains the polychromy, which is "dans le pur néo-plasticisme," red yellow blue, and grey black white. The titles inscribed on the two photos are "Plastique architecturale pour un quartier d'habitation dans l'espace, 1946," and "Bas relief émanant du triangle équilatéral, 1947."

ArchivalResource: 1 letter.2 photographs black and white 18 x 12 cm. and 13 x 12 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78052384 View