Peg Weiss papers, 1916-1990.

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Peg Weiss papers, 1916-1990.

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The research papers of Peg Weiss, scholar of German Expressionism and faculty member of Syracuse University, consist largely of the Blue Four Archive: 1,722 letters between Galka Scheyer and members of the Blue Four (Lyonel Feininger, Alexei Jawlensky, Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee); correspondence between Scheyer's family members (1924-1945) and correspondence with the German Consulate in Los Angeles (both relevant to Holocaust research); letters to Scheyer from composer Ernest Bloch, Felix Klee (son of Paul Klee), Karl Nierendorf, a gallery owner, and Grace McCann Morely, director of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; documents related to Scheyer's house designed by architect Richard Neutra as well as unrealized designs by R.M. Schindler; research materials collected or prepared by Weiss including audiotapes of interviews and slides; computer files (on magnetic tape) and printouts of correspondence and translations; photocopies of the Scheyer correspondence housed at the Norton Simon Museum of Art; Blue Four exhibition catalogs; photocopies of Scheyer's diaries; and part of Scheyer's personal library which includes rare edition of Kandinsky, 1913.

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Weiss, Peg, 1932-1996

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Feininger, Lyonel, 1871-1956

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Feininger was an American-born artist who went to Germany in 1887 and returned to the U.S. in 1936. From the description of Papers, 1883-1960. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122520943 From the description of Drawings for Peter Christen Asbjørnsen's Norvegische Volksmärchen, 1908. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 84317440 From the description of Lyonel Feininger photographs, 1896-1942. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612196407 ...

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 ...

Klee, Félix, 1907-1990

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Jawlensky, Alexej ˜vonœ 1864-1941

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Neutra, Richard Joseph, 1892-1970

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Richard Josef Neutra was born in 1892 in Vienna; immigrated to US, 1923; Frank Lloyd Wright invited him to Taliesin during the fall of 1924; Neutra moved to Los Angeles, CA, 1925; most productive years were during 1930s and 1940s; spent most of his last decade in partnership with his son, Dion; published several books, including Wie baut Amerika? (1927) and Survival through design (1954); died in 1970. From the description of Papers, 1925-1970. (University of California, Los Angeles)...

McCann Morely, Grace.

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Bloch, Ernst, 1904-

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San Francisco museum of modern art

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Art museum; San Francisco, Calif. Arthur Dove was a painter. From the description of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art photographs of Arthur Dove, [ca. 1920-1946]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83637026 ...

Norton Simon Museum of Art at Pasadena

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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...

Syracuse university

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Syracuse University was involved with the Chautauqua Institution in providing a program of continuing education during the summer in undergraduate as well as graduate fields. From the description of University College, Chautauqua Center records, 1953-1969. 1953-1969. (Syracuse University). WorldCat record id: 122528964 [pending] From the guide to the New York State Publishing and Printing Collection, circa 1800-1950, (Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse...

Nierendorf, Karl.

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Schindler, R. M. (Rudolph M.), 1887-1953

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Austrian architect who moved to the United States to work with F.L. Wright, settling finally in Los Angeles. From the description of R. M. Schindler, Architect, 1948. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 84387916 American architect, whose work attracted young European architects, such as the Austrian-born R.M. Schindler, to the United States. From the description of Frank Lloyd Wright correspondence with R.M. Schindler, 1914-1929 (bulk 1918-1922). (Get...

Scheyer, Galka E.

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Art collector, dealer; b. 1889; d. 1945; Los Angeles, Calif. Scheyer worked to introduce the art of the Blue Four (Blaue Vier), Wassily Kandinsky, Lyonel Feininger, Paul Klee, and Alexei Jawlensky, to American collectors. From the description of Galka Scheyer papers, 1917-1945. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86118568 ...