Busch-Reisinger Museum Archives, Harvard University Art Museums
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| Fax | (617) 496-2359 |
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| Address: | Busch-Reisinger Museum
Harvard University Art Museums
32 Quincy Street
Cambridge MA 02138
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| Extent of Collections: | 500-1,000 linear ft. |
| Dates: | 1905-1965 |
| Holdings Description: | Bauhaus materials; visual materials by /from Walter Gropius and
of Lyonel Feininger; Alexander Dorner Archive. The Bauhaus materials include student notes and exercises, textile and wallpaper samples, photographs, books, and Bauhaus publications from 1919-33; also student exercises from other art schools founded on the Bauhaus model. The Walter Gropius Archive contains architectual drawings, blueprints, and photographs of German and American projects, 1910-56. The Lyonel Feininger Archive has 5,000 cataloged items: sketches, some correspondence, unfinished oil paintings, and photographs. The Alexander Dorner Papers consist of 18 boxes of correspondence, ook and article typescripts, as well as newspaper and magazine lippings on a wide variety of cultural, social, and scientific topics, overwhelmingly from the period after Dorner’s migration to the United States in the late 1930s.
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| History: | Gropius and other Bauhaus teachers left Germany in the 1930s under pressure from the Nazis. Gropius joined the School of Architecture at Harvard, gave important materials to Harvard, and persuaded other Bauhaus faculty members such as Lyonel Feininger to do the same. The Dorner Papers were bequeathed by his widow in 1961.
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| Contact for permission to publish requests: | Busch-Reisinger Museum |
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| Photocopying by staff only. |
| Photographic reproduction services. |
| Photocopying facilities available after consultation with curator. |
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Please address comments and updates to archinfo@hulmail.harvard.edu.
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