Correspondence with Alma Mahler, 1931-1955.

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Correspondence with Alma Mahler, 1931-1955.

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In correspondence until 1938 Hollnsteiner often reports on political circumstances in Austria; included is a draft version of an essay by Hollnsteiner on the Austrian Concordat of 1933 (a document bearing on the relations between the Austrian state and the Catholic Church), and he sometimes mentions his work on other writings. 1 letter from Hollnsteiner to Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg in 1935 registers an objection about the removal of the bust of Gustav Mahler in the Vienna State Opera from its previous position of honor; and in 1 subsequent letter to Alma Mahler Hollnsteiner reports the decision on the part of the mayor of Vienna, Richard Schmitz, to reject the design proposed by the sculptor Fritz Wotruba for the monument. 2 items pertain to the death of Manon Gropius, in April 1935: Hollnsteiner's handwritten copy of the address he delivered at the graveside; and a photocopy of the letter which Hollnsteiner wrote to Walter Gropius, on behalf of Alma Mahler and Franz Werfel, reporting on the circumstances of Manon's death. Also included is a carbon copy of a letter of 1936 which Hollnsteiner wrote to an unidentified university professor, requesting that the latter support the nomination of Franz Werfel for the Nobel Prize for Literature. After a gap in correspondence between 1939 and 1945, a letter from Jacob Levine (apparently a U.S. soldier stationed near Abbey St. Florian, Austria) addressed to Franz Werfel, on Hollnsteiner's behalf, expresses Hollnsteiner's desire to reestablish contact. The subsequent correspondence includes a draft response by Alma Mahler to Levine; and 3 letters from Hollnsteiner in the period between 1945 and 1955. Included is a clipping about Hollnsteiner lecturing on St. Florian and Bruckner, from a German newspaper during Nazi period (1942).

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Hollnsteiner, Johannes, 1895-

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Schuschnigg, Kurt, 1897-1977

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Kurt Schuschnigg (1897-1977): lawyer; elected to parliament in 1927; became Minister of Justice in 1932, Minister of Education in 1933; became Chancellor in 1934; imprisoned by the Nazis during World War II; emigrated to the U.S. in 1945 and became professor of law in St. Louis, 1948-1968; author. From the description of Kurt Schuschnigg papers, 1938-1947 (inclusive). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702166834 Roth was apparently an official with the Italian mission of the Uni...

Levine, Jacob I.

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Gropius, Walter, 1883-1969

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Architect, educator. Studied architecture at the Universities of Charlottenburg-Berlin and Munich, Germany from 1903 to 1907. Founded and directed the Staatliches Bauhaus, Weimar in 1919, which Gropius moved to Dessau in 1925 and renamed "Bauhaus Dessau". Professor of Architecture in the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, 1937 and Chairman of the Department of Architecture from 1938 to 1952. Formed the Architects' Collaborative in Cambridge in 1946. For further information see James ...