Metadata: Small collection of letters, documents and photographs relating to Kurt Schwitters, Edith Thomas, Sylvia Bartholomew and Klaus Hinrichsen
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 959
- Title:
- Small collection of letters, documents and photographs relating to Kurt Schwitters, Edith Thomas, Sylvia Bartholomew and Klaus Hinrichsen
- Title (official language):
- Small collection of letters, documents and photographs relating to Kurt Schwitters, Edith Thomas, Sylvia Bartholomew and Klaus Hinrichsen
- Creator/accumulator:
- Hinrichsen, Klaus
- Date(s):
- 1941/1989
- Language:
- English
- Extent:
- 2 folders
- Scope and content:
- This collection is comprised of letters, documents and photographs belonging to Klaus Hinrichsen which relate to himself and his friends, Kurt Schwitters, Edith Thomas and Sylvia Bartholomew.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Klaus Hinrichsen, art historian, was a friend of both Kurt Schwitters and Edith Thomas. He was born in Luebeck, Germany on 19 April 1912. After receiving his Dr. phil. from Hamburg in 1937, Hinrichsen worked as a researcher for Thieme-Becker Kuenstlerlexicon and Reallexikon zur Deutschen Kunstgeschichte. In 1939, he came to England and, like Schwitters, was interned in Hutchinson Camp, Douglas, Isle of Man from 1940 to 1941. Since the 1970s, Hinrichsen gave talks on Schwitters and other émigré artists and published several articles. After talking about Kurt Schwitters on BBC Radio 3 in 1986, Hinrichsen was contacted by Edith Thomas with whom he stayed in almost daily contact until her death. He died in London 2004.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Bartholomew, Sylvia
- Hinrichsen, Klaus
- Schwitters, Kurt
- Thomas, Edith
- Subject terms:
- Art
- Art--Artists
- 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%20959%27)
- https://www.tate.org.uk/art/archive/tga-959/small-collection-of-letters-documents-and-photographs-relating-to-kurt-schwitters-edith
- Yerusha Network member:
- AIM25
