Oral history interview with Otto Wittmann
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 3 sound tape reels. Reformatted in 2010 as 5 digital wav files. Duration is 4 hr., 41 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Wittmann, Otto, 1911-2001
label: Interviewer
content: Cummings, Paul
topic: label: Topic
content: Art, American
label: Topic
content: Museum directors -- Ohio -- Interviews
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview is part of the Archives' Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and others.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Wittmann, Otto, 1911-2001
label: Interviewer
content: Cummings, Paul
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Otto Wittmann (1911-2001) was a museum director and consultant from Toledo, Ohio.
function: label: Function
content: Art museums -- Ohio -- Toledo
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 124 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1976 August 19-20
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.wittma76
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Otto Wittmann conducted 1976 August 19-20, by Paul Cummings, for the Archives of American Art. Wittmann speaks of his family history and life in Kansas City; art courses at Harvard; his position at Nelson Gallery of Art; Sach's museum course at Harvard; teaching art history at Emerson College, Boston College, and Skidmore College; of being associate director of Toledo Museum of Art; of assembling a new staff, and of responsibilities as director.