Ernst Scheyer papers
name: label: Creator
content: Scheyer, Ernst, 1900-1985
label: Names
content: Churchill, Alfred Vance, 1864-1949
label: Names
content: Churchill, Maria
label: Names
content: Einstein, Elsa, 1876-1936
label: Names
content: Feininger, Julia
label: Names
content: Feininger, Lyonel, 1871-1956
label: Names
content: Feininger, T. Lux
label: Names
content: Lindbergh, Anne Morrow, 1906-2001
label: Names
content: Mann, Erika, 1905-1969
label: Names
content: Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955
label: Names
content: Richardson, Edgar Preston, 1902-1985
label: Names
content: Sepeshy, Zoltan, 1898-1974
label: Names
content: Werner, Fred
topic: label: Occupation
content: Art historians
label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Germany
label: Topic
content: Blaue Vier (Group of artists)
label: Topic
content: Art -- Study and teaching -- United States
label: Topic
content: Painting, German
label: Topic
content: Expressionism (Art)
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Material on reel 496 was lent for microfilming in 1973 by Ernst Scheyer. The material on reel 3471, except a letter to the Smithsonian, was donated by Scheyer, in 1965. The letter to the Smithsonian on reel 3471 was transferred from the National Museum of American Art in 1981.
creator: label: Creator
content: Scheyer, Ernst, 1900-1985
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Ernst Scheyer (1900-1995) was an art historian of Detroit, Mich. Scheyer wrote extensively on his friend and artist, Lyonel Feininger. He was a proponent of the art of the German Expressionist and abstract art group, the Blue Four (Blaue Vier), whose members were Wassily Kandinsky, Lyonel Feininger, Paul Klee, and Alexei Jawlensky.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 244 Items ((on 2 partial microfilm reels))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1924-1972
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.scheerns
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reels 496 and 3471 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Reel 496: Originals returned to lender, Ernst Scheyer, after microfilming.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Correspondence; lecture notes; photographs; clippings; and biographical material.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REEL 496: Correspondence, mostly 1949-1962, including letters from Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Frank Lloyd Wright, Thomas Mann, Erika Mann, Zoltan Sepeshy, Julia Feininger, T. Lux Feininger, E.P. Richardson, Mrs. Albert Einstein, Fred Werner, major German museums, and others; lecture notes from Scheyer's art history classes; poetry translated from Dutch to English; photographs; clippings; and biographical material.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REEL 3471: Letters from family and friends of Lyonel Feininger for a biography of him by Scheyer. Correspondents include Julia Feininger, T. Lux Feininger, H. Francis Kortheuer, Maria and Alfred Churchill, Dayrell Kortheuer, and others. Also included is a letter from Scheyer to the Smithsonian Institution discussing his collection of works by the "Blue Four," and asking to exhibit and lecture on the group at the Smithsonian.