Paul Theobald and Company records, 1935-1988.

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Paul Theobald and Company records, 1935-1988.

Paul Theobald (1900-1955) was a bookseller and publisher who opened his own book shop in 1936 and later established Paul Theobald and Company. The collection consist of authors' correspondence and documents regarding specific books, general office papers, and copies of published books.

8 boxes (3.5 linear feet)

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SNAC Resource ID: 8204089

Aurora University, Phillips Library

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Jacobson, Egbert, 1890-1966

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Theobald, Lolita.

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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 ...

Hilberseimer, Ludwig

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Born in Karlsruh, Germany (1885). Educated at the Technische Hochschule (1906-1910). Taught at the Bauhaus-Dessau school (1928-1933) and at the Illinois Institute of Technology (1938-1967). From the description of Ludwig Karl Hilberseimer papers, ca. 1885-1995. (Art Institute of Chicago). WorldCat record id: 80073005 ...

Kepes, György (1906-2001).

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Gyorgy Kepes (1906-2001) was a painter and educator from Cambridge, Mass. From the description of Oral history interview with Gyorgy Kepes, 1972 Mar. 7-1973 Jan. 11 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 495596647 From the description of Oral history interview with Gyorgy Kepes, 1968 Aug. 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 779477499 Gyorgy Kepes; artist and aesthetic theorist; born 1906 in Selyp, Hungary; taught at New Bauhaus in Chicago and at Massachuse...

Moholy-Nagy, Sibyl, 1903-1971

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Sibyl: architectural historian, critic, educator. Birthdate also cited as 1903. Died 1971. Laszlo: sculptor, designer, painter & photographer; Chicago, Illinois. Sibyl was born Dorothea Maria Pauline Alice Sybille Pietzsche in Dresden, Germany. An actress in Berlin during her twenties, she used the stage name Sibyl Peech. Eventually she shifted to a career in the scenario office of the Tobis [Moving] Picture Syndicate where she met Moholy-Nagy in 1929. They married i...

Paul Theobald and Company.

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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...

Theobald, Paul, 1900-1955

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Moholy-Nagy, László, 1895-1946

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László Moholy-Nagy (1894-1946) was a painter, sculptor, photographer, designer, film maker, theorist and teacher who was a major figure in the Bauhaus movement, first in Germany and later instrumental in bringing the Bauhaus philosophy to the United States. His work spanned many genres. He was influenced by the Constructivists, Dadists and the Suprematists. In 1922 he was appointed to Bauhaus school of design in Berlin, staying until 1928. After working in commercial practice in Europe, he mov...