Oral history interview with Hildegard Bachert
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 2 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 3 digital wav files. Duration is 2 hr., 4 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Bachert, Hildegard
label: Interviewer
content: Long, Rose-Carol Washton
label: Names
content: Galerie St. Etienne
topic: label: Occupation
content: Art dealers -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Occupation
content: Gallery owners -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Topic
content: Women art dealers
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview is part of the Archives of American Art 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 administrators.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Bachert, Hildegard
label: Interviewer
content: Long, Rose-Carol Washton
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Hildegard Bachert (1921-2019) was an art dealer at Galerie St. Etienne from New York, New York.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Items (sound cassettes (2 hr., 4 min.), analog.)
label: Extent
content: 42 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1993 February 25-26
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.bacher93
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript is available on the Archives of American Art's website.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview with Hildegard Bachert conducted 1993 February 25-26, by Rose-Carol Washton Long, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Bachert speaks of growing up in Mannheim, Germany; reminices about violence against Jews and surviving the Crystal Night; leaving Germany for the United States to escape Nazi Germany in 1936; arriving in New York CIty with her older sister and attending high school; becoming a Zionist; frequenting the museums and cultural instituations of New York; working as a secretary for Karl Nierendorf Gallery; taking a job with Otto Kallir and working with him for a majority of her career; attending Hunter College; taking an interest in Native American and Aboriginal art; decribes how Kallir moved a good amount of his art collection out of Austria prior to World War II. She describe various artists in Kallir's collection and exhibitions such as Kokoschka, Corinth, Schiele, Kollwitz, Moderson-Becker; meeting Anna Mary Roberson Moses also known as Grandma Moses and representing her artwork; Kallir's interest in American and Russian folk art; the personality of Kallir; co-directing Galerie St. Etienne with Jane Kallir.