Oral history interview with Federica Beer-Monti
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 58 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Beer-Monti, Friederike, 1891-1980
label: Interviewer
content: Coleman, Butler
label: Names
content: Baizerman, Eugenie, 1899-1949
label: Names
content: Baizerman, Saul, 1889-1957
label: Names
content: Kokoschka, Oskar, 1886-
label: Names
content: Margules, De Hirsh, 1899-1965
label: Names
content: Stix, Hugh
topic: label: Occupation
content: Art dealers -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Topic
content: Women art dealers
label: Topic
content: Art, American
label: Topic
content: Art, European
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: Beer-Monti, Friederike, 1891-1980
label: Interviewer
content: Coleman, Butler
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Friederike (Federica) Beer-Monti (1876-1980) was an art dealer and artists' muse, born in Vienna, Austria, immigrating to New York, New York, in the mid-1930s.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 28 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1967 November 1
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.beermo67
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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.
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content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview with Friederike (Federica) Beer-Monti conducted 1967 November 1, by Butler Coleman, for the Archives of American Art.

Beer-Monti discusses her early life in Vienna, including posing for artists Egon Schiele and Gustav Klimt; modeling clothing for the Wiener Werkstätte; her romantic relationship with Hans Böhler; architect Josef Hoffmann; volunteering at Nebehay Gallery; and her experiences of World War I and World War II. She discusses fleeing Europe for the United States in the mid-1930s due to the rise of Nazism; meeting Hugh Stix; and the founding of New York's Artists' Gallery. She mentions artists Oskar Kokoschka, Sarah Berman, De Hirsh Margules, Louise Nevelson, Louis Schanker, Eugenie Baizerman and Saul Baizerman.