Johannes Baader
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  • JOHANNES BAADER
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  • Writings
    • Published Correspondence
    • Publications 1914-1924
  • Secondary Literature
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  • IMAGE CREDITS
    banner: Double Portrait of Johannes Baader and Raoul Hausmann, 1919. Photograph after lost original [Musée d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris]

archives and collections

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  • AKADEMIE DER KÜNSTE
  • The Akademie der Künste houses the archives of George Grosz and Julius Hart, both containing correspondence with Baader. The George Grosz archive includes also the library of George Grosz.
  • George Grosz Archiv
    • [information] Archiv Bildende Kunst: George Grosz Archiv.
  • Julius Hart Archiv
    • [information] Literaturarchiv: Julius Hart Archiv.
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  • ARCHIV DER DEUTSCHEN JUGENDBEWEGUNG
  • Johannes Baader
    • Baader's correspondence (1922-1923) in the Archiv der deutsche Jugendbewegung [= German Youth Movement], Burg Ludwigstein.
    • [publication] Winfried Mogge, 'Oberdada und Wandervögel. Johannes Baader, Burg Ludwigstein und die Jugendbewegung 1922/23', in Jahrbuch des Archivs der Deutschen Jugendbewegung 18 (1999) 233-316.
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  • BAUHAUS ARCHIV
  • Dada Papers
    No further information on the site of the Bauhaus Archiv, Berlin.
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  • BERLINISCHE GALERIE
  • Johannes Baader
    No further information online.
  • Hannah Höch Archiv
    After the artist’s death, the Berlinische Galerie was able to acquire her extensive archive. During recent years it has been augmented by several donations from the artist’s heirs. The Hannah Höch Archive contains works of art, biographical material, her album, manuscripts, photographs, books, magazines, posters, programmes, invitation cards, exhibition documents, the artist’s extensive correspondence, and also texts and manuscripts by third parties.
    • [publication] The Hannah Höch Archive has been published in a six-part edition by the Berlinische Galerie entitled Hannah Höch. Eine Lebenscollage / Dokumente und Materialien aus dem Nachlaß der Künstlerin, bearbeitet von Cornelia Thater-Schulz, et al. Archiv-Edition, Band 1/1-3/2: 1889- 1978 (Argon Verlag : Berlin 1989-2001) 6 vols.
  • Raoul Hausmann Archiv
    When Hausmann emigrated to France in 1933, his extensive archive remained in Berlin in the possession of his wife Elfriede Hausmann-Schaeffer and their daughter Vera. The archive, which now belongs to the Berlinische Galerie, contains letters, texts, photographs and works of art by the 'Dadasoph', as well as numerous documents from the Dada period (manuscripts, photographs).
    • [finding aid] Eva Züchner, Wolfgang Erler, e.a., 'Bestandsverzeichnis', in Eva Züchner (Hrsg.), Scharfrichter der bürgerliche Seele. Raoul Hausmann in Berlin, 1900-1930 (Hatje : Ostfildern 1995) 450-503.
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  • BIBLIOTHEQUE LITTERAIRE JACQUES DOUCET
  • Tristan Tzara Papers
    • [publication] In the early 1980s, Richard Sheppard set a standard for the scholarly publication of documentary materials in his presentation of a group of Baader's letters to Tristan Tzara in 'Twelve Unpublished or Partially Published Items by Johannes Baader (1918-1921)', in Richard Sheppard (ed.), New Studies in Dada. Essays and Documents (Hutton Press : London 1981) 144-158.
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  • DEUTSCHES LITERATURARCHIV
  • Johannes Baader
    The Schiller Nationalmuseum / Deutsches Literaturarchiv houses correspondence by Baader (letters to Eugen Diederichs, Hermann Kasack, Reinhold Seeberg), clippings, manuscripts and documents.
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  • GETTY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
  • Johannes Baader Papers, ca. 1906-1952
    Besides this archive, the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, houses some relevant collections, especially for the later period. The Franz Roh Papers, 1911-1965 contain writings on art by Baader, letters from him to Roh, and a handwritten, manuscript draft copy of Baader's Der Stern Erde (1946). The Yves Poupard-Lieussou Correspondence contains mainly letters to Raoul Hausmann, but includes some relevant items on Baader.
    • [archive] Collection includes: Nine letters to Eberhard Buchner dated 1909-1928, which include mention of Dada soirees; two letters, 1921, to the president of the German parliament asking for the opportunity to defend himself in front of this body against accusations brought forth in a trial against the Dada movement and Baader as its "Oberdada"; a copy of a letter of protest, 1921, concerning the banning of a lecture by Baader in Dresden; a letter, 1945 April 28, to an unknown correspondent mentioning secret meetings and listing the chapter titles of Mittgarts Neubau; circulars and memoranda from ca. 1909-1952, primarily concerning the Berlin Dada, many on 'Club Dada' stationary; clippings from German newspapers and other printed ephemera and photographs, 1906-1923, relating both to Baader’s involvement in Berlin Dada and to his work as an architect, specifically with Die Werkstätten für Friedhofskunst, with various designs for monuments. Collection also includes a file of manuscript writings (partially incomplete) including Das Spiel der Völker (1916), 43 p.; Kleine Auswahl für Schulbücher (1928) and a collection of poems. With a preliminary draft and the final annotated draft of Eberhard Buchner’s psychiatric study of Baader, 1909, entitled "Ein Fall von religiöser Wahnbildung".
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  • MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
  • I.B. Neumann Papers, 1914-1963
    Israel Ben Neumann was born in Austria in 1887. In 1910, he opened his first book and art store in Berlin. By 1922, branches were opened in Bremen, Düsseldorf, and Munich. Neumann moved to New York City in 1923; a year later he would open a gallery, first called J.B. Neumann's Print Room and later the New Art Circle Gallery, which was also known as a meeting spot for artists and art lovers. Neumann died in Rye, New York on April 28, 1961.
    • [archive] The Papers date from 1914-1963, and are contained in nine document boxes, one archives storage box and three reels of microfilm. Materials include correspondence to and from Neumann, unpublished manuscripts, photographs of works of art, and publications issued by Neumann.
      See Library for related published material; and Archives of American Art, Washington DC, for additional Neumann Papers.
    • [finding aid] J.B. Neumann Papers in The Museum of Modern Art Archives / Finding aid prepared by Claire Dienes and Jeremy Melius, 2002.
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  • PRIVATE ARCHIVES
  • Bernd Baader, Stuttgart
  • Peter Baader, Hamburg
  • Andrei B. Nakov, Paris
  • Karl Riha, Siegen
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