Oral history interview with Ernst Halberstadt
name: label: Interviewee
content: Halberstadt, Ernst, 1910-1987
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
label: Names
content: Rockefeller Center
label: Names
content: Rivera, Diego, 1886-1957
topic: label: Topic
content: Muralists -- Massachusetts -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Painters -- Massachusetts -- Interviews
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 others.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Halberstadt, Ernst, 1910-1987
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Ernst Halberstadt (1910-1987) was a painter and mural painter from Cambridge, Mass.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Sound tape reel (Sound recording, 5 in.)
label: Extent
content: 57 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1979 Feb. 16
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.halber79
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Sound tape reels
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 Ernst Halberstadt conducted 1979 Feb. 16, by Robert F. Brown, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Halberstadt speaks of his youth in Boston; his education at a technical high school and at the Massachusetts College of Art, Boston; his work on murals at Radio City Music Hall, and with Diego Rivera in Detroit; his experiences as a WPA supervisor; the documenting of slums in Boston in the 1930s; and commercial photography.