Documentation of exhibitions pertaining to Kurt Weill in the collections of the Weill-Lenya Research Center, [1976]-[ongoing].

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Documentation of exhibitions pertaining to Kurt Weill in the collections of the Weill-Lenya Research Center, [1976]-[ongoing].

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Guides, brochures, invitations, clippings. This series includes materials on about twenty exhibitions, of which the most important are: Weill-Lenya (New York, 1976), Vom Schiffbauerdamm zum Broadway (East Berlin, 1985), The Three-penny opera as seen by Arbit Blatas (New York, 1986), Les Ballets 1933 (Brighton, 1987), Vom Kurfürstendamm zum Broadway (Düsseldorf, 1990), Degenerate art (Los Angeles, 1991). Exhibitions having to do with Weill, Lotte Lenya, musical theater, the Weimar Republic and its art, or artists associated with Weill or Lenya may be represented in this series.

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Kurt Weill Foundation for Music. Weill-Lenya Research Center.

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Blatas, Arbit

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Arbit Blatas (1908-1999) was born a Russian Jew in Kaunas, Lithuania in 1908. He began painting very early, and had his first exhibition at the age of 14. His father refused to let him go to Paris to study unless he could prove he was talented, so at 17 the two of them went to Riga to see a painter there and have him assess young Blatas' skills. Fortunately, he deemed the boy very talented and so Blatas' father agreed to let him go to Paris. He arrived in Paris at the pe...

Weill, Kurt

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As a result of the success of his Broadway musical Lady in the dark in 1941, German-born composer Kurt Weill and his wife, the singing actress Lotte Lenya, were able to buy "Brook House," in Rockland County, New York, moving there during their sixth year in the United States. From Brook House, and a couple of addresses in Los Angeles during his trips there, Weill kept in touch, until a month before his death, with his parents, who had emigrated to Israel in 1935. From the description...

Lenya, Lotte

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Born in Austria, Lenya became an actress in Zürich, then moved to Berlin where she met and married Kurt Weill. They emigrated to the U.S. in 1935, where Lenya lived until her death a few months after this interview was recorded. From the description of An oral history interview with Lotte Lenya / conducted for the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music by Alan Rich, New City, N.Y., 1981 : recording and transcript. (Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton &amp; Garrison). WorldCat record id: 12258368...