Alfred Werner Collection 1914-1979 bulk 1940-1979

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Alfred Werner Collection 1914-1979 bulk 1940-1979

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This collection documents the professional life of Austro-American art historian and journalist Alfred Werner(1911-1979). After being released from Dachau in 1939, Werner fled to New York. From 1940 to 1979, he wrote thousands of stories, reviews, and columns, and was an editor of orcontributor to dozens of art magazines and Jewish periodicals. His primary interests were European, Jewish, and Zionist political affairs, and 19th and 20th-century European andAmerican art, with an emphasis on Jewish and Israeli artists. The bulk of the collection consists of his published output. The collection also contains some additional professionalmaterial, such as manuscripts, research materials, and reference photographs, as well as a few personal documents.

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Leo Baeck Institute.

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Werner, Alfred, 1911-1979

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Art critic, author. From the description of Alfred Werner papers, 1941-1977. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84018796 Art historian and journalist Alfred Werner was born Alfred Siegfried Weintraub to Ignatiz and Frederika (Silberstein) in Vienna, Austria on March 31, 1911 . He received his Juris Doctor from the University of Vienna in 1934. In Austria, Werner was active in the Viennese literary scene, editing the newspapers Gerechtigkeit and Die Stimme while also...