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title	Hermann Bünemann letters received, 1928-1968.
repository	The Getty Research Institute
description	Collection consists of letters received by B nemann,1928-1968, from artists, art historians and dealers concerning their work, arranged in alphabetical order. Most notable are: three letters from Andre Dunoyer de Segonzac, 1937, and one letter from Othon Friesz, 1937, expressing thanks for B nemann’s appreciation of their work and interest in purchasing paintings (1937); seven letters from Elisabeth Erdmann-Macke, August Macke’s wife, 1939-1968, who writes about the death of her second husband in a concentration camp, discusses the identity of varous paintings by Macke and Franz Marc and reports on exhibitions and her autobiography. With four letters from Macke’s son Wolfgang, 1949, concerning the authenticity of a painting attributed to his father and a lecture given by Georg Schneider at the opening of a Marc/Macke exhibition in 1948; one letter from Gabiele M nter, 1947, inviting B nemann to her home in Murnau; one postcard from Emil Preetorius, 1946, who agrees that Franz Marc was influenced by Persian and Indian miniatures; one letter from Rainer Maria Rilke’s wife, Clara Rilke; three letters from Rilke’s daughter, Ruth Fritzsche-Rilke, 1928-1952, focusing on Rilke’s impressions of Franz Marc’s works; and four letters from the painter Otto Th. W. Stein, 1952-1957, discussing the fate of his prewar paintings most of which were destroyed or confiscated by the Nazis. With one letter to Friedrich Ahlers-Hestermann, 1949.
extent	43 items
formats	Correspondence
access	Open for use by qualified researchers.
record link	http://primo.getty.edu/primo_library/libweb/action/dlDisplay.do?vid=GRI&afterPDS=true&institution=01GRI&docId=GETTY_ALMA21126982220001551
record source	http://library.getty.edu/
updated	03/16/2023 10:29:44
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