The museum in the creation of community
Subtitle: Otto Wittmann
By: interviewed by Richard Cándida Smith ; Art History Oral Documentation Project compiled under the auspices of the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities
Contributors: Cándida Smith, Richard, interviewer; Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities; J. Paul Getty Trust
Published: 1995
Language: eng
Number of pages: 423
Copyright date: 1995
Subjects: Interviews; Art historians
Other titles: Otto Wittmann
Description: Transcript of an interview conducted for the Oral Documentation Project at the Getty Research Institute. The project began in 1991 as a collaboration with the Oral History Program at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and was later solely operated by the Getty.
Notes: Includes index.

Open for qualified researchers.

Transcripts of the interviews jointly sponsored by the Getty and UCLA are also located at UCLA and in the Bancroft Library at Berkeley.

Otto Wittmann was the associate director and then director of the Toledo Museum of Art (1946-1977).  Under his directorship, the museum became a world-class institution. During World War II, Otto Wittman served as a special intelligence officer for the Art Looting Investigation Unit where he was responsible for the discovery and restitution of artworks looted in Europe during the war. After his retirement from the Toledo Art Museum, Wittmann went on to serve as a board member of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and became chief curator at the J. Paul Getty Museum.  He was a founding member of the National Council on the Arts, as well as an advisor to the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).

Forms of part: Interviews with art historians (Special Collections, accn. 940109)