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INVENTORY OF THE LAEMMLE GALLERY PHOTOGRAPHS DOCUMENTING THE LAEMMLE ART BUSINESS, MUNICH AND LOS ANGELES, 1894-1993
93.P.1
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Title: Laemmle Gallery photographs documenting the Laemmle art business, Munich and Los Angeles
Date (inclusive): 1894-1993
Number: 93.P.1
Creator/Collector:
Laemmle Gallery
Physical Description:
17.0 linear feet
(43 boxes)
Repository:
The Getty Research Institute
Special Collections
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, California, 90049-1688
(310) 440-7390
Abstract: This collection of glass negatives, photographs, and tearsheets was assembled by art dealers Siegfried and Walter Laemmle
in the course of pursuing business in Munich and Los Angeles and represents the remaining records of their business.
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Language: Collection material is in
English
Biographical / Historical Note
Siegfried Laemmle was an art dealer in Munich for over 40 years. Walter Laemmle and family continued to deal in decorative
arts and furniture when the family immigrated to Los Angeles during World War II.
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Lammmle Gallery photographs documenting the Laemmle art business, Munich and Los Angeles, 1894-1993, Research Library, The
Getty Research Institute, Accession no. 93.P.1
Acquired in 1993.
Processed by Christi Richardson and Ted Walbye, 1997.
Scope and Content of Collection
This collection of glass negatives, photographs, and tearsheets was assembled by art dealers Siegfried and Walter Laemmle
in the course of pursuing business in Munich and Los Angeles and represents the remaining records of their business.
Almost all of the glass negatives and many of the prints record objects that passed through Siegfried Laemmle's Munich shops
(first on Karlstrasse, later on Lenbachplatz and Briennerstrasse) over a 40-year period. These images are the only remaining
documents of Laemmle's business in the art market in Germany before World War II. Most of the works depicted are late medieval
and early Renaissance sculptures, including several by Tilman Riemenschneider. There are also several interior views of the
Munich shops showing art objects offered for sale. Tearsheets from books and journals and commercial photographic prints constitute
a picture reference collection.
Approximately one-fifth of the glass negatives and a few of the prints are personal images, depicting Laemmle family members
and groups. The collection also contains a recorded interview made on May 17, 1993 with Walter Laemmle and his business associate
Roger-F. Bettlé, and Myra Orth and Frances Terpak of the Getty Research Institute. The digitized version is available online.
Connect to digitized audio recording. Access is available on-site only.
Arranged in 3 series:
Series I. Glass negatives, circa 1894-1990;
Series II. Photographs of sculpture and decorative arts, and family, circa 1894-1993;
Series III. Photographs and clippings of paintings, drawings, prints, circa 1894-1990
Art dealers--California--Los Angeles
Art dealers--Germany--Munich
Art--Germany--Munich--Marketing
Sculpture, Medieval
Sculpture, Renaissance
Audiocassettes
Black-and-white glass slides
Black-and-white prints (photographs)
Clippings (information artifacts)
Interviews
Oral histories (document genres)
Laemmle, Siegfried
Laemmle, Walter
Riemenschneider, Tilman, d. 1531