Gerda Meyer Bernstein papers
name: label: Creator
content: Meyer Bernstein, Gerda (1923-2024)
topic: label: Occupation
content: Installation artists -- Illinois -- Chicago
label: Topic
content: Installations (Art)
label: Topic
content: Women artists
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The collection was donated in 2015 by Gerda Meyer Bernstein.
creator: label: Creator
content: Meyer Bernstein, Gerda (1923-2024)
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content: Gerda Meyer Bernstein papers
abstract: label: Summary
content: The papers of installation artist Gerda Meyer Bernstein measure 1.2 linear feet and date from 1973 to 2015. Included are biographical materials, correspondence, ten notebooks, scattered general project files, printed material, digital recordings of interviews, and a video recording concerning Meyer Bernstein's installation Chicago Crossings: Bridges and Boundaries.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Gerda Meyer Bernstein (1923-2024) was a Chicago, Illinois installation artist whose works comment on global issues and crises and include a number of installations dedicated to Holocaust remembrance. She used non-traditional materials including discarded objects.

Born in Westphalia, Meyer Bernstein escaped Nazi Germany on one of the last Kindertransports of 1940. She studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the early 1950s and worked there as a teaching assistant before graduating with an M.F.A. in 1978. Meyer Bernstein was a founding member of the Artists in Residence Gallery and her work has been shown in the Art Institute's Chicago & Vicinity annual exhibition three times.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1.2 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1973-2015
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.meyegerd
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Video recordings
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Due to the small size of this collection the papers are arranged as one series.
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: The collection was processed, and a finding aid prepared by Jayna Josefson in 2022 with support from the Smithsonian American Women's History Initiative.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Video recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The papers of installation artist Gerda Meyer Bernstein measure 1.2 linear feet and date from 1973 to 2015. Included are biographical materials, correspondence, ten notebooks, scattered general project files, printed material, digital recordings of interviews, and a video recording concerning Meyer Bernstein's installation Chicago Crossings: Bridges and Boundaries.