Nikolaus Pevsner papers, 1919-1979.

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Nikolaus Pevsner papers, 1919-1979.

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Series I. Correspondence: General correspondence with Wilhelm Pinder, Bodo Ebhardt, Arthur Mackmurdo, Walter Gropius, Julius Posener and other artists, architects, designers and architectural historians; also editorial correspondence of the Architectural Review and correspondence of the Royal Fine Arts Commission, National Council for Diplomas and Design, Redundant Churches Advisory Board, British Academy, Victorian Society, William Morris Society, Jerusalem Committee, etc. (More correspondence is to be found within the material relating to Pevsner's books and articles, including more letters by Walter Gropius and letters by C. R. Ashbee, Gordon Russell, Charles A. Voysey, and members of the 'Omega' workshops). Series II. Publication files: Manuscripts, research notes, correspondence, and photographs for Pioneers of Modern Design from William Morris to Walter Gropius, An Inquiry into Industrial Art in England, Academies of Art, An Outline of European Architecture, Charles R. Mackintosh, Gordon Russell, The Penguin Dictionary of Architecture, Some Architectural Writers of the 19th Century (Oxford Slade lectures), The History of Building Types (Mellon lectures) and other publications. (N. B.: Files for the "Buildings of England" have been retained by Penguin Press Ltd). Scripts for BBC radio broadcasts. Series III. Teaching notes and presentations: Lectures and lecture notes for use at the Courtauld Institution on Art and Birkbeck College, University of London; Cambridge and Oxford University. Lectures delivered in the United States, South Africa, Argentina, Germany, Italy, etc. With related correspondence. Series IV & V. Research material: Abstracts of books arranged by subject; includes student notes by Pevsner from the universities of Leipzig, Munich, Berlin and Frankfurt, card files on English architects, on buildings and artists mentioned in Country Life, etc.; notes on buildings visited, by country (separately within a collection of several thousand postcards); printed material, including articles by Pevsner, in chronological order. Series VI. Personal papers: Personal and family correspondence; date books, 1951-1977.

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Pevsner, Nikolaus, 1902-1983

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German-born art and architectural historian, editor and professor, Nikolaus Pevsner was a scholar of European architecture, 19th and 20th century design, Italian Baroque painting and German sculpture. He worked with the Dresden Gallery from 1924 to 1928 and taught at Göttingen before emigrating to England in 1933. He subsequently taught at Birkbeck College and the Courtauld Institute, and lectured as Slade Professor of Art at Cambridge and Oxford. He was a member of the editorial board of the A...

Voysey, Charles F. A., 1857-1941

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The University of London was established in 1836 out of the principle of a more inclusive approach to education, free from religious tests and more affordable. With its power to grant degrees the University worked generally in close alliance with University College and King's College London as well as numerous other colleges around Britain. In terms of degrees awarded, the University was the first in England to introduce a Bachelor of Science, tending away from the more ...

Ashbee, C.R. (Charles Robert), 1863-1942

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Epithet: architect and printer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000410.0x000320 Ashbee was an English architect, city planner, designer and utopian socialist. He was the founder of the Guild of Handicraft in London, an experimental workshop in the English Arts and Crafts movement. In 1917, he was invited by the British military governor to advise on town planning in Jerusalem and report on its local crafts and i...

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Ebhardt, Bodo, 1865-

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Posener, Julius

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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 ...