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Theo Van Doesburg Archive Archive of Theo Van Doesburg and His Wives OESBURG RCHIVE Guide A Theo van Doesburg Archive Archive of Theo van Doesburg and his wives OESBURG D Advisor: Bouwe Hijma Rijksdienst Beeldende Kunst/Netherlands Office for Fine Arts, The Hague & Van Moorsel Donation HEO VAN T AIDC PUBLISHERP U R L 1 5H E R S S BRILLB RI LL Rijksdienst Beeldende Kunst / Netherlands Office for Fine Arts, The Hague Van Moorsel Donation Guide to the microform collection IDC number 0-2127 M IDC 1991 ARCHIVE OFTHEO VANDOESBURG AND HIS WIVES Ca. 1900 - 1975 INVENTORY by Bouwe Hijma Rijksdienst Beeldende Kunst / NetherlandsOffice for Fine Arts The Hague, 1991 Contents Page INTRODUCTION I. The donation of part of the Theo van Doesburg estate to the Dutch Nation i II. An account of the inventorization i III. Instructions for use ii IV. Publicity and copyrights n1 Notes iv Appendix: Biographical data v Appendix: Bibliography vi . ARCHIVE 1. Theo vanDoesburg's diaries 1 2. Correspondence 2 2.A General correspondence 2 2.B Correspondence with individual persons, 1908-1968 2 2.C.1 Correspondence with institutions, 1917-1932 16 2.C.2 Correspondence with institutions, 1961-1973 19 2.D Correspondence with editors of journals, 1917-1931 19 3. Van Doesburg the speaker 22 3.A Lectures given by Theo van Doesburg 22 3.B Other correspondence pertaining to prospective lectures by Theo van Doesburg 25 4. Van Doesburg the publicist 26 4.A Manuscripts, typescripts and proofs of and correspondence pertaining to published and unpublished works in the field of art and architecture 26 4.B Manuscripts and typescripts on art and architecture not published during Theo van Doesburg's lifetime 27 4.C Manuscripts, typescripts and proofs of published articles on art and architecture 28 4.D Manuscripts, typescripts and proofs of literary works 32 4.E Drafts of articles, letters and lectures in the form of quires, and separate notes and drafts 35 4.F Books and brochures 38 4.G Articles inDe Stijl 38 4..H Articles in other periodicals, newspapers and books 39 Page 4.I Bibliographies of Theo van Doesburg 51 5. Van Doesburg as editor of/contributor to various journals and member of various artists' societies 51 5A Van Doesburg as editor and, with Lena Milius and others, administrator of the magazineDe Stijl 51 5A.1Correspondence 51 5A.2Lists of contributors 53 5A.3Lists of subscribers, etc. 53 5A.4Invoices 53 5A.5Printer's proofs, layout sheets and clich6s 53 5A.6Miscellaneous items 53 5.B Van Doesburg as editor ofMecano 54 5.B.1 Correspondence 54 5.C Van Doesburg as contributor toHet Getij 55 5.D Artists' societies with which Van Doesburg was connected .55 6. Van Doesburg and 'De Stijl' as the subject of publications and tributes 56 6A Manuscripts and typescripts 56 6.B Articles 57 7. Exhibitions 63 8. Press-cuttingalbums 77 9. Special themes/ projects 78 9A Weimar and the Bauhaus 78 9.B De Stijl's participation in the 'Exposition Internationale des Arts D6coratifs et Industriels Modernes' in Paris in 192.5 79 9.C Stained-glass projects 79 9.D Architectural projects 81 10. Manuscripts by others 88 11. Miscellaneous personal documents pertaining to both Theo and Nelly van Doesburg 90 11A Birth and baptism 90 11.B Military service 90 11.C Marriage and divorce 90 11.D Death 90 11.E Curricula vitae and oeuvre catalogue 91 11.P Varia 91 11.G Management of the Theo and Nelly van Doesburg archive, library and art collection 92 11.G1Translation project: the translation of Piet Mondrian's letters to Theo van Doesburg 92 11.G.2Miscellaneous subjects 92 Page 12. Miscellaneous personal documents pertaining exclusively to Nelly van Doesburg 93 13. Photographs 94 13A Photographs of Theo and Nelly van Doesburg et al 94 13.B Photographs of Theo and Nelly van Doesburg et al and fellow- artists 97 13.C Photographs of friends/fellow-artists 100 13.D Photographs and other illustrations of work by Van Doesburg 104 13.D.1Oeuvre catalogue 104 13.D.2Paintingsby Van Doesburg 104 13.D.3Drawings, gouaches etc. by Van Doesburg 110 13.D.4Dada collages 114 13.D.5Typography (executed) 114 13.D.6Typography (not executed) 114 13.E Illustrations of work by fellow-artists 115 BY Designs by Theo van Doesburg for presentations arranged by himself 126 13.G Other photographs 126 14. Filed archives 127 14A Antony Kok archive 127 14A.1Letters received from individual persons, 1915-1931 127 14A.2Texts by Agnita H. Feis (Feys) 128 14A.3Miscellaneous items 129 II. DOCUMENTATION 1. Architecture 130 2. Fine art 131 3. Dada 135 4. Decorative art 136 5. Literature 136 6. Music 137 7. TheRussian revolution 138 8. Miscellaneous themes 138 III. INDEX 140 INTRODUCTION 1. Thedonationof part of the Theo vanDoesburg estate to the Dutch nation When Nelly van Doesburg died on 1 October 1975 in Meudon, France, the fate of theworks, house, archive and library of Theo and Nelly van Doesburg was unclear. From 1969 on there were contacts betweenTheo van Velzen, Head of the Art Department of theMinistry of Welfare, Public Health and Cultural Affairs, and Jean Leering, then director of the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, concerningan annualbudget and the possibility of a life-donation of the work of the versatile artist Theo van Doesburg to the Stateof the Netherlands. No agreement had been reached prior to his widow's death. Wies van Moorsel, Nelly's niece, was sole heir to the estate. She decided to donate Theo van Doesburg's house, works, archive andlibrary to the Dutch nation (1). Several years of negotiations between the French and Dutch governments ensued. In 1981 theFrench relinquished the estate. Thirty drawings for the Aubette in Strasbourg remained in French possession (2). Soon after this, the works, the archive and the library were consigned to the DienstVerspreide Rijkscollecties in The Hague, which in 1984 was subsumed into the Rijksdienst Beeldende Kunst (Netherlands Office forFine Arts). From March 31 to July 17 1983 a selection of the Van Moorsel donation was on show in the Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, as part of a presentation of De Stijl architecture. Also in 1983, Evert van Straaten, the then curator of the Dienst Verspreide Rijkscollecties, compiled a documentary biography of Theo van Doesburg on the basis of the works and the archive (3). On completion of the inventorization activities, the Theo van Doesburg archive and library wereconsigned to the care of the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie (RKD, Netherlands Institute for Art History) in The Hague. The photographs in the archive, however, passed into the collection of the Rijksdienst Beeldende Kunst (RBK, Netherlands Office for Fine Arts), and a number of Van Doesburg's literary manuscripts are on loan to the Letterkundig Museum in The Hague. Substitutes for these manuscripts are in the archive now managed by the RKD. For the sake of completeness it should be noted that the archive does not contain works of art by Van Doesburg, including his architectural drawings, which have been donated to the Dutch nation. These are kept in the RBK Art Collection. II. Anaccount of the inventorization Former inventories While Nelly van Doesburg was still alive, work was already being done with a view to organizing and describing (parts of) the archive. In this connection Nelly van Doesburg herself should be mentioned, likewise Wies van Moorsel and Esther Cohen. The latter assisted Joost Baljeu in his book on Theo van Doesburg, notably in the bibliographical section (4). Once the archive had been transferred to the Dienst Verspreide Rijkscollecties, Evert van Straatenprepared a preliminary, rough classification. This spade-work formed a useful starting-point for my own inventory. On July 1 1988 I embarked on the activities of which the present inventory is the outcome. Initiatives for the possible creation of a De Stijl archive At the time of the major De Stijl exhibitions in Amsterdam (1951) and New York (1952-53) it became apparent that archive and documentationmaterial pertainingto De Stijl was scattered over many, predominantly private, locations. Nelly van Doesburg possessed a great deal of material, but so did architects such as Van Eesteren, Oud and Rietveld. The idea gradually grew of assemblingand managingthis material in one central location. In 1958 T. Krielaart of the Amsterdam Municipal Museums wrote a report in which he recommended that an inventory be made of the archive and documentationmaterial inNelly van Doesburg's possession. He suggested a particular classification system and submitted a tentative budget (5). It is not clear what happened to this report, which was followed a few years later by a new one. In it,Charles J.F. Karsten, who had worked on a De Stijl exhibition in Dortmund (May-June 1964), sounded thealarm. He cited poorly conserved photographs, lost models, the risk of sale or loss of correspondence still in private hands. Karsten made a number of suggestions. First, he proposed that a national or municipal institution or a government-funded private foundation should entrust someone with the compilation of a comprehensive collection of archive and documentationmaterial pertainingto DeStijl, resortingwhere necessary to purchases, loans etc. Secondly, he expressed the idea of establishing a 'Stijl'museum inthe Rietveld-Schroder house in Prins Hendriklaan, Utrecht, or in Meudon (6) i Thisinitiative did not leaddirectlyto tangible results either, although some people did returnto Nelly van Doesburg at her request the letters and postcardswhich Theovan Doesburg had written tothem.This was done by Antony Kok, JJ.P. Oudand an heir of Evert Rinsema. Former classification All this goes to show that the original arrangement of the archive was not adhered to. In the courseof time the largely unorganized archive had passed through many hands, sometimes with classification asthe main priority, sometimes with scholarly research.
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