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Walter Dexel letters received, 1904-1966.

Title: Walter Dexel letters received, 1904-1966.

Documents, letters and postcards from mostly German Expressionist artists to Walter Dexel primarily in his capacity as exhibitions manager at the Kunstverein, Jena. The letters concern general business, organization of exhibitions, prices of work, picture sales, transportation of paintings and mention of fellow artists. With some personal letters to both Walter Dexel and his wife Grete. Included in the collection are three separate drawings, ca. 1950, of a street with neon shop signs. Most notable among the correspondents are: Marcus Behmer, ca. 1920; Adolf Behne, 1922-1946 (181); Albert Bloch, 1907-1922 (31); Heinrich Campendonk, 1917-1919 (25); Theo and Petro-Nelly van Doesburg, 1922-1929 (15) on printed letterhead "De Stijl"; Lyonel Feininger, 1922-1955 (5); George Grosz, 1926; Otto Gleichmann, 1955; Nina Kandinsky, n.d. (2); Wassily Kandinsky, 1925 (10); Alexander Kanoldt, 1921-1923 (8); Paul Klee, 1919-1929 (6); Kaethe Kollwitz, 1905; Alfred Kubin, 1925 (5); Melchior Lechter, 1905 (1); Gerhard Marcks, 1920-1951 (6) two with woodblock print letterheads; Ernst May, 1928; Moriz Melzer, 1911 (2); Laszlo and Lucia Moholy-Nagy, 1922-1973 (6); Johannes Molzahn, 1919-1922, 1961-1962, 1964 (16) two with woodblock print letterheads and a 5 p. essay entitled "Betr. Kunstgewerbeschulen" (n.d.); Edvard Munch, 1906, 1913 (3); Georg Muche, ca. 1920; Emil Nolde, 1906-1910 (6); Max Peiffer-Watenphul, 1922, 1957-1966 (5); J. J. P. Oud, 1923, 1924 (2); Christian Rohlfs, 1904, 1918 (6); Alexander Sacharoff, 1912 (1); Alois J. Schardt, 1923; Galka Emmy Scheyer, 1922 (10); Oskar Schlemmer, 1921-1926 (20); Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, 1911-1915 (7); Kurt Schwitters, 1924 (1) with one letter from Dexel; Arthur Segal, 1911-1924 (4); Fritz Stuckenberg, 1919-1927 (11). Heinrich Vogeler, 1904 (4) with printed letterheading "Barkenhoff Worpswede" and Karl Walser, 1904 (4) among others. Collection organized alphabetically by author.

ArchivalResource: ca. 555 items.

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Walter Gropius papers in the Bauhaus-Archiv, ca. 1919-1937.

Title: Walter Gropius papers in the Bauhaus-Archiv, ca. 1919-1937.

Photographs of the early papers of Walter Gropius at the Bauhaus-Archiv in Berlin,Germany.

ArchivalResource: 24 boxes (10 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00044/catalog View

Gropius, Walter, 1883-1969. Papers, 1925-1969 (bulk: 1937-1969)

Title: Walter Gropius papers, 1925-1969 (inclusive), 1937-1969 (bulk).

Papers of German-born architect and Harvard professor Walter Gropius.

ArchivalResource: 40 boxes (15 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00397/catalog View