Elisabeth Model Collection 1912-1993

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Elisabeth Model Collection 1912-1993

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This collection consists of documents related to the painter and sculptressElisabeth Model (née Dittmann). She was born and educated in Germany, but moved to Amsterdam with her husband, Max Model, in 1922. With their twosons, Wolfe and Frans Peter, the couple fled Nazi-occupied Holland for the United States in 1941, where Elisabeth Model continued to work as anartist. The collection contains biographical information about Elisabeth Model and her family; correspondence, including letters from ElisabethModel's mother in the Netherlands shortly before her deportation, and photographs of an exhibition of Elisabeth Model's artwork at the Leo BaeckInstitute New York in 1992. Elisabeth Model was a friend of Hermann Hesse and received several autographed photographs, books, and a letter fromhim, which may also be found in this collection.

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Model, Elisabeth D. (Elisabeth Dittmann), 1897-1993

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Elisabeth D. Model (1897-1993) was a painter and sculptor from New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Elisabeth D. Model, 1977 May 19. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 227191374 Sculptor; New York, N.Y. Born in Bayreuth, Bavaria, Model studied sculpture in Munich under Professors Thor and Cericioli, in Amsterdam at the Rijksakademie under Professor Jurgens, and in Paris under Moissi Kogan. Model, her husband, Max, and their ...