Wilhelm Arntz papers 1898-1986

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Wilhelm Arntz papers 1898-1986

Comprehensive research collection on twentieth century art, especially German Expressionism, compiled by the art expert Wilhelm Friedrich Arntz. A vast portion of the collection consists of research files on individual artists. Of particular interest are files concerning the so-called degenerate art campaign by the Nazis and the recovery of confiscated artwork after the World war II. Extensive material documents Arntz's professional activities.

159.0 linear feet; (295 boxes)

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SNAC Resource ID: 6660437

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Klein, Yves, 1928-1962

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French painter and experimental artist. From the description of Papers, 1957. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 80343294 ...

Hofer, Carl, 1878-1955

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German painter and teacher. From the description of Letters, 1904-1912. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 81865862 ...

Kokoschka, Oskar, 1886-1980

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Austrian-British painter. From the description of Autograph letter signed, autograph postal card signed and greeting card signed : [Villeneuve], to John Rewald, 1961 Jan. 7-1962 Nov. 20. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270871195 Arno Nadel, the musician, writer and painter, was the author of 1 letter to Kokoschka (transcript); Paul Cassirer (1871-1926), the art dealer and publisher, was the addressee of 1 letter from Kokoschka (transcript). From the description of...

Kunstarchiv Arntz

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Bünemann, Hermann, 1895-

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German art historian and critic. From the description of Letters received, 1928-1968. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 78776160 ...

Schlemmer, Oskar, 1888-1943

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German painter and designer; teacher at Bauhaus; stage designer. From the description of Journal, 1928-1943. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 77832032 ...

Jawlensky, Alexej ˜vonœ 1864-1941

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Kubin, Alfred, 1877-1959

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German graphic artist. From the description of Letters, 1909-1947. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84548408 ...

Chaissac, Gaston, 1910-1964

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Gaston Chaissac (1910–1964) was a French painter. An autodidact and son of the French rural working class, he became involved in the art world when he lived next door to Otto Freundlich and Jeanne Kosnick-Kloss in Paris during the 1930s. They showed him modern art and supported his efforts to paint, helping him along and promoting his work. Gaston Chaissac is often considered to be part of the Art Brut or Outsider Art category. Some artists have described his style as "modern rustic." https://e...

Kommission zur Verwertung der eingezogenen Produkte entarteter Kunst

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Hansen, E.

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German expressionist painter, printmaker, and watercolorist. His original name was Emil Hansen. From the description of Letters to Hans Fehr, 1899-1938. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 79409025 German painter. From the description of Emil Nolde correspondence, 1932-1937. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 123379313 From the description of Exhibition announcement, 1926 Dec. 4. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80804004 ...

Warhol, Andy, 1928-1987

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Andy Warhol (1928-1987) was an American artist and film maker. From the description of Andy Warhol collection of photographs of actors, 1915-1967. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 79392132 Andy Warhol was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1928. He studied commercial art at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, graduating in 1949. After graduation, Warhol went to New York where he worked as an illustrator for magazines such as Vogue and Harpar's Bazaa...

Voss, Jan, 1936-

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Jan Voss was born in October 9, 1936 in Hamburg, Germany and was best known for collaged works on canvas which incorporate rudimentary, figure-like shapes and scrawling, painted lines. He tears, crumples, and glues paper to find the image for each work rather than having a plan in mind beforehand. Voss’s work has relationships to Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, and CoBrA artists like Asger Jorn. Born on October 9, 1936 in Hamburg, Germany, the artist studied at the Munich Art Academy and moved to ...

Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett

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Janssen, Horst, 1929-1995

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Privatinitiative Kunst

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Deutscher Werkbund.

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Borst, Hugo, 1881-1967

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Schmidt-Rottluff, Karl, 1884-1976

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Weber, Andreas Paul, 1893-1980

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Hartung, Hans, 1904-1989

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Hartung was born in Leipzig, Germany in September 21, 1904.He was was a German-French painter, known for his gestural abstract style. He was also a decorated World War II veteran of the French Foreign Legion.In 1947 in Paris he had his first solo exhibition. By the late 1950s he had achieved recognition for his gestural paintings, which were nearly monochromatic and characterized by configurations of long rhythmical brushstrokes or scratches. In 1960 he was awarded the International Grand Prix f...

Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg für die Besetzten Gebiete

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The Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (ERR), headed by Alfred Rosenberg, was created in 1940 by the Nazi Party with the mandate to confiscate public cultural treasures and private art collections in Nazi-occupied territories. From the description of Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (ERR) card file, 1940-1945 [microform] [1940-1945] (Metropolitan Museum of Art). WorldCat record id: 82504566 ...

Arntz, Wilhelm F.

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Biographical/Historical Note Wilhelm Friedrich Arntz (1903-1985) was a German lawyer, art expert and independent researcher of twentieth century art. He was also one of the early collectors of German Expressionism. Parallel to collecting artworks, he aquired publications on 20th century art and compiled a wealth of archival material, including newspaper clippings, correspondence of artists, art historians and dealers, and ephemeral items such...

Grieshaber, Helmut A. P., 1909-1981

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Heckel, Erich, 1883-1970

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German artist, member of the artist group "Die Brücke." From the description of Letters sent to Wilhelm and Elisabeth Mayer, 1918-1968. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 82773930 German painter, member of the artist group "Die Brücke". From the description of Letters, 1910-1957. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81295427 ...

Reutti, Kurt

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Hundertwasser, Friedensreich, 1928-2000

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b. December 15, 1928; d. February 19, 2000. From the description of Artist file : miscellaneous uncataloged material. (Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)). WorldCat record id: 78650891 ...

Mueller, Otto, 1874-1930

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Pechstein, Max, 1881-1955

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German expressionist painter and printer. From the description of Letters and writings, 1909-1948. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 78524928 ...

Müller-Wulckow, Walter, 1886-1964

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German historian and critic of art and architecture; director of the Landesmuseum Oldenburg. From the description of Walter Müller-Wulckow papers, 1918-1935. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80850168 ...

Klee, Paul, 1879-1940

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Swiss artist. From the description of List of works and genealogical data, 1903-1922, 1933. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79260784 ...

Liebermann, Max, 1847-1935

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Bonnard, Pierre, 1867-1947

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Pierre Bonnard was a French painter and printmaker, who was a member of a group of artists called the Nabis. From the description of Calling card : from Pierre Bonnard [manuscript]. [n. d.] (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 222750358 French painter. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Alpes Maritimes, to an unidentified recipient, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270870382 French painter and graphic artist. From t...

Modigliani, Amedeo, 1884-1920

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Barlach, Ernst, 1870-1938

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German sculptor, playwright, and poet. From the description of Letters, 1892-1936. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 84845745 ...

Brüning, Peter, 1929-1970

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Peter Brüning was born in Düsseldorf, Germany in 1929. His studies of Expressionism and Cubism lead Brüning to find his own style within his varied early work. http://www.peter-bruening.com/...

Kricke, Norbert, 1922-1984

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Norbert Kricke (30 November 1922 – 28 June 1984) was a German sculptor. Born in Düsseldorf, Kricke was a student of Richard Scheibe and Hans Uhlmann at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Berlin. He started creating abstract sculptures from 1947, using wires and other materials associated with industry, such as steel, glass and concrete. He was one of the most important artists in the group known as L'Art Informel, and had close links with ZERO and Nouveau Réalisme. https://en.wikipedia.o...

Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973

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Pablo Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. Regarded as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon...

Kounellis, Jannis, 1936-2017

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Jannis Kounellis (23 March 1936 – 16 February 2017) was a Greek Italian contemporary artist based in Rome. A key figure associated with Arte Povera, he studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome. From wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jannis_Kounellis ...

Klapheck, Konrad, 1935-

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Konrad Klapheck (born February 10, 1935) is a German painter and graphic artist whose style of painting combines features of Surrealism and Pop art. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Klapheck...

Schwitters, Kurt, 1887-1948

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German artist and writer. From the description of Catalogue and price lists for CVM (Celler Volks-Moebel), 1930. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 80461152 ...

Deutsche Zentralverwaltung für Volksbildung in der Sowjetischen Besatzungszone

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Marc, Franz, 1880-1916

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Kirchner, Ernst Ludwig, 1880-1938

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German artist. From the description of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner letters and papers, 1905-1946. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 145993660 From the description of Composition studies, 1919. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 79065212 ...

Bill, Max, 1908-1994

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Friedlaender, Johnny, 1912-1992

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Gotthard Johnny Friedlaender was born in Pless (Pszczyna), Prussian Silesia in 1912. His works have been exhibited in Germany, France, Netherlands, Italy, Japan and the United States. He has been influential upon other notable artists, who were students in his Paris gallery. His preferred medium of aquatint etching is a technically difficult artistic process, of which Friedlaender has been a pioneer....

Baumeister, Willi, 1889-1955

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German painter and teacher. From the description of Aus den Studien-Jahren und das Verhältnis zu Adolf Hölzel (autobiographical essay), 1949. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79136938 German painter, teacher and writer. From the description of Letter : Stuttgart, to Hjalmar Westerdahl, 1949 May 25. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 79118685 ...

Beckmann, Max, 1884-1950

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Painter and educator; New York, N.Y. Born and educated in Germany. From the description of Max Beckmann papers, 1904-1974. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122648059 ...

Strauss, Ottmar

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Franklin, Charles

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Rohlfs, Christian, 1849-1938

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Chagall, Marc, 1887-1985

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Russian-French painter. From the description of Autograph letter signed (1) and greeting cards signed (2) : Marseilles and St. Paul, to John Rewald, 1941 Jan. 3, 1967 July 18 and [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270870508 Marc Chagall was a Russian-born painter working chiefly in France whose works frequently featured themes from Russian-Jewish folklore and from the Bible. From the description of Marc Chagall letter to D. Vaughan, 1967 February 21. (Pennsyl...

Galerie Fischer.

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Hélion, Jean, 1904-1987

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Jean Hélion (April 21, 1904 – October 27, 1987) was a French painter whose abstract work of the 1930s established him as a leading modernist. His midcareer rejection of abstraction was followed by nearly five decades as a figurative painter. https://www.nytimes.com/1987/10/30/obituaries/jean-helion-abstract-and-representational-artist.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Hélion...

Beuys, Joseph

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Hajek, Otto Herbert, 1927-2005

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Verlag Das Beste GmbH

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Polke, Sigmar, 1941-2010

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German painter became internationally influential after his first solo exhibition in New York at the Holly Solomon Gallery, 1982, though the work shown was created in the preceding decade. He is known for his multi-layered works that drew from found images, photography, and abstraction, work that itself was built on the innovations of American Pop Art. His reputation grew steadily from the 1980s, and he was considered at his death one of the foremost painters of his generation. From...

Chillida, Eduardo, 1924-2002

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Ernst Barlach Gesellschaft

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Macke, August, 1887-1914

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Kandinsky, Wassily, 1866-1944

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Russian-born painter and writer on art. From the description of Mitgliedskarte, ca. 1908, for Neue Künstlervereinigung München. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 80564007 The Russian-born artist, Wassily Kandinsky [Vasilii Vasil'evich Kandinskiĭ] is considered one of the creators of abstract painting. He taught at the Bauhaus between 1922 and 1933. From the description of Wassily Kandinsky papers, 1911-1940 (bulk 1921-1937). (Getty Research Insti...

Dalí, Salvador, 1904-1989

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Salvador Dalí (b. May 11, 1904, Figueres, Spain–d. January 23, 1989, Figueres Spain) was a prominent Spanish surrealist artist. Dalí was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work. His painterly skills are often attributed to the influence of Renaissance masters. His best-known work, The Persistence of Memory, was completed in August 1931. Dalí's expansive artistic repertoire included film, sculpture, and photography, in collaboration with a range ...

Kunsthaus Lempertz

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