Senate Commission for the Fine Arts 363-2 Senatskommission für die Kunstpflege

Identifier
irn671066
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2019.171.1
  • RG-14.143
Dates
1 Jan 1920 - 31 Dec 1938
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

133 digital images, JPEG

Archival History

Staatsarchiv Hamburg (Germany)

Acquisition

Records originate from the Hamburg State Archive (Staatsarchiv Hamburg). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's International Archival Programs Division received the digitized microfilms in February 2019 from Yad Vashem, Israel, via exchange.

Scope and Content

Selected records of organization and administration of the Senatskommission für die Kunstpflege (Senate Commission for the Fine Arts), related to the state and non-state measures of art promotion and care, and scholarship applications. Includes minutes of the sessions of the Senate Commission for the Fine Arts (1925-1933), files of artists (Rée, Anita, painter; Rosenthal, A. von, sculptor); applications of the Hamburgische Künstlerschaft for the promotion of fine arts in Hamburg and the replacement of posts in cultural institutions (1930-1932), a report "Die Verhältnisse der bildenden Kunst in Hamburg in den Jahren 1919-1932“" (The Conditions of the Visual Art in Hamburg in the years 1919-1932); files of the establishment of a "Dr. Karl Muck Fellowship Foundation " and appointment of its board members (1928-1933) concerning exclusion of Jewish members; an offer of the sculpture of the bust of Adolf Hitler proposed by a professor Ferdinand Liebermann, Munich (1933); correspondence and reports on the establishment and construction of the Reichskartells der Bildenden Künste (1933).

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Staatsarchiv Hamburg (Germany)

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