Metadata: Correspondence from Henry Moore to Gustav and Elisabeth Kahnweiler, works of art, photographs and press cuttings
Collection
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- Tate Archive
- Holding institution (official language):
- Tate Archive
- Postal address:
- Tate BritainMillbankLondonUnited KingdomSW1P 4RG
- Web address:
- https://www.tate.org.uk/art/archive
- Reference number:
- TGA 9223
- Title:
- Correspondence from Henry Moore to Gustav and Elisabeth Kahnweiler, works of art, photographs and press cuttings
- Title (official language):
- Correspondence from Henry Moore to Gustav and Elisabeth Kahnweiler, works of art, photographs and press cuttings
- Creator/accumulator:
- Kahnweiler, Gustav
- Date(s):
- 1900/1991
- Language:
- English
- Extent:
- 1 folder
- Scope and content:
- This small collection consists of nine postcards sent from Henry Moore to Gustav and Elisabeth 'Elly' Kahnweiler (1958-1974); seven works of art by Renato Guttuso, Elie Lascaux, André Masson and Josep de Togares (mainly gifts from family friends); a set of photographs of artists' works in Kahnweiler's collection; family photographs and eighteen press cuttings from October 1984 and January 1985, when a large retrospective of the artists managed by Daniel-Henri Kahnweiler, Gustav's brother, took place at the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Gustav Kahnweiler was born in Stuttgart on September 21, 1895, the youngest child of a Jewish bourgeois family. It was expected that he would take up a career in banking, but he became a partner in the picture dealing business of Alfred Flechtheim. In this way he followed in the footsteps of his elder brother, Daniel-Henri Kahnweiler (1884-1979), who became the major Cubist dealer of the century. After the First World War, Gustav collaborated with his brother in the rebuilding of his business. In 1926 he married Elisabeth Konrad and in 1936 they moved to England, settling in Cambridge in 1938. Kahnweiler continued to take an interest in his brother's Paris gallery, but his quieter, more scholarly ways led him to describe himself , rather self-effacingly, "le petit Kahnweiler". In 1955 the Kahnweilers moved to Alderbourne Manor, near Gerrards Cross. Kahnweiler was appointed Commander of the British Empire in 1972. In 1974 the Kahnweiler's arranged a deed of gift to the Tate Gallery, whereby they donated thirty-six Cubist paintings. Gustav Kahnweiler died in 1989 and Elisabeth in July 1991.
- Access points: locations:
- Paris
- Access points: persons/families:
- Kahnweiler, Elisabeth
- Kahnweiler, Gustav
- Moore, Henry
- Subject terms:
- Art
- Art--Artists
- Correspondence
- Access, restrictions:
- Open
- Finding aids:
-
Online catalogue.
Some items from this collection have been digitised.
- Links to finding aids:
- http://archive.tate.org.uk/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqServer=tdc-calm&dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=show.tcl&dsqSearch=(RefNo==%27TGA%209223%27)
- https://www.tate.org.uk/art/archive/tga-9223/correspondence-from-henry-moore-to-gustav-and-elisabeth-kahnweiler-works-of-art
- Yerusha Network member:
- AIM25