Correspondence with Hannes Meyer, 1928-1932.

ArchivalResource

Correspondence with Hannes Meyer, 1928-1932.

Letters and love poems, kept private by Beese until her death, chronicling her relationship with Meyer. Includes ca. 74 letters from Meyer and ca. 34 from Beese (some of Beese's letters seem to be originals, suggesting that Meyer returned them to her).

193 items.

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 8257468

Getty Research Institute

Related Entities

There are 12 Entities related to this resource.

Bauhaus

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6z1427b (corporateBody)

Educational institution. From the description of Photographs of Bauhaus students, teachers, and exhibits, 1919-1933. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 81840731 From the description of Postcards about the Bauhaus, 1922-1926. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78683279 The Bauhaus was founded in 1919 by the architect Walter Gropius as a school of art, architecture, and crafts, with the focus on instruction in the unity between the fine and applied arts and i...

Gropius, Walter, 1883-1969

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65h7dhw (person)

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 ...

Meyer, Hannes, 1889-1954

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67s7x8b (person)

Swiss architect; director of the Bauhaus, Dessau, 1928-1930. From the description of Letters received, 1930-1951. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80500187 ...

Teige, Karel, 1900-1951

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61c32ct (person)

Hesse, Fritz, 1898-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67t06rm (person)

Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, 1886-1969

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61c20mr (person)

German born architect. From the description of Manuscript fragment (n.d.) and letter, 1962 Nov.30. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 82217577 Architect. From the description of Reminiscences of Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe : oral history, 1961. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122631918 Architect. Born in Aachen, Germany (1886). From the description of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe collection, 1929-1969....

Beese, Peter, b. 1931.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6vq5mzq (person)

Fuchs, Bohuslav, 1895-1972

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tm7x09 (person)

Mengel, Margret.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66x1vpp (person)

Stam-Beese, Lotte, 1903-1988

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61c41nc (person)

Bauhaus student and architect who was intimately involved with Hannes Meyer, Bauhaus director and architect, from 1928-1932. Beese met Meyer at the Bauhaus-Dessau while a student there in 1928; subsequently she worked in Meyer's Berlin office. Because they were usually apart, they wrote often. Their son Peter Beese was born in 1931. By 1933 Beese was involved with architect Mart Stam, whom she probably met while he was teaching at Dessau in 1928-1929; by 1937 they had married. From t...

Stam, Mart, 1899-1986

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66q2gw4 (person)

d. 1986. From the description of Artist file : miscellaneous uncataloged material. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86163378 ...

Balcerova, Nina.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6bc6j69 (person)