INVENTORY OF THE HANS J. KLEINSCHMIDT RESEARCH FILES,
1902-1975
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INVENTORY OF THE HANS J. KLEINSCHMIDT RESEARCH FILES,
1902-1975
Accession no. 950005
Finding aid prepared by Rose Lachman
Getty Research Institute
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- The Getty Research Institute
- Research Library
- Special Collections and Visual Resources
- 1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
- Los Angeles, California 90049-1688
- Phone: (310) 440-7390
- Fax: (310) 440-7780
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- Rose Lachman
- Date Completed:
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January 1999
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©1999 J. Paul Getty Trust.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Hans J. Kleinschmidt research
files
Date (inclusive): 1902-1975
Collection number: 950005
Creator:
Kleinschmidt, Hans J.
Extent:
.5 linear ft.
1
box
Repository:
Getty Research Institute
Research Library
Special Collections and Visual Resources
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, CA 90049-1688
Abstract: German-born psychiatrist with a deep interest in German expressionism and Dada. Kleinschmidt was concerned with trends in
art and literature from the turn of the century to the end of the Weimar Republic. This collection consists of unpublished
letters, published and unpublished essays, and phonetic poems by Raoul Hausmann and Richard Huelsenbeck.
Language: Collection material in German, French, and English
Administrative Information
Access
Open for use by qualified researchers.
Publication Rights
Preferred Citation
Hans J. Kleinschmidt research files, 1902-1975, Getty Research
Institute, Research Library, Accession no. 950005.
Acquisition Information
The collection was acquired February 1995.
Processing History
Rose Lachman processed the collection and wrote the finding aid.
Biographical / Historical Note
Hans J. Kleinschmidt was a German-born psychiatrist with a deep
interest in German expressionism. He was particularly concerned with trends in
art and literature from the turn of the century to the end of the Weimar
Republic. Richard Huelsenbeck asked Kleinschmidt to edit
Memoirs of a Dada drummer, a book of Huelsenbeck's
writings which first appeared in 1969. For research purposes, Kleinschmidt also
gathered a large collection of correspondence about the German publication,
Der Sturm and its founder Herwarth Walden.
Scope and Content of Collection
This collection of assembled material covers the years 1902-1975 but
concentrates on the Dada art movement from its inception in 1916 by Richard
Huelsenbeck, Hugo Ball and Tristan Tzara, through to the 1940s. The collection
begins with Raoul Hausmann manuscripts and letters followed by Richard
Huelsenbeck manuscripts and correspondence. Then appear copies of letters to
Herwarth Walden arranged alphabetically by correspondent and preceded by a file
(folder 6) giving the history of the magazine
Der Sturm.
The manuscripts and correspondence of Raoul Hausmann and Richard
Huelsenbeck present a clear picture of the history of the Dada movement.
Examples of phonetic poetry and essays on the topic of Dada are an integral
part of this file. Hans J. Kleinschmidt also collected photocopied
correspondence from
Der Sturm Archive in order to write a history of the magazine
Der Sturm and its founder, Herwarth Walden. These letters
from artists and writers of the period give insight into the art developments
of the early 20th century. Artists and writers include Guillaume Apollinaire,
Sonia Delaunay, Otto Freundlich, Albert Gleizes, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee,
Fernand Leger, Adolf Loos, August Macke, Thomas Mann, Franz Marc, Walter
Mehring and Max Pechstein.
Arrangement
Series I.
Raoul Hausmann, manuscripts and letters,
1926-1970
Physical Description:
48 items
Scope and Content Note
The manuscripts consist of poems (Lautgedichte), essays and prose
texts. Numerous annotations by Hausmann are seen on many of the sheets. All the
manuscripts are carbon typescripts. When known, manuscripts are arranged by
date according to when they were written or published. Publications are cited.
This series also includes letters to Franz Jung, Cläre Jung and Richard
Huelsenbeck. Some of the letters address his declining relationship with
Huelsenbeck and how Hausmann's publications were being scrutinized and
critiqued.
Box 1, Folder 1
Raoul Hausmann manuscripts,
1926-1969
Physical Description:
18 items
Box 1, Folder 1
"Baumschulen,"
1926
Scope and Content Note
typescript poem sent to Doris Hahn, 1926, published in
Sieg Triumph Tabak mit Bohnen 1982, pp. 112 and
211.
Box 1, Folder 1
"Einfuehrung in die Geschichte des Lautgedichts
1910-1939,"
1939?
Scope and Content Note
4 p. typescript annotated essay on phonetic poetry and the
theories of Khlebnikov, Khrutchenykh, Iliazd and others, 1939?, published in
Am Anfang war Dada (1980) p. 35
Box 1, Folder 1
"Sol-Chant,"
1946
Scope and Content Note
2 p. typescript phonetic/concrete poem written partially in
French, German and English, 1946 (dated in pencil by Hausmann, 1957), published
in
L'esperienza moderna, no.5, Rome, March 1959
Box 1, Folder 1
"Sonnen-Sang,"
1947
Scope and Content Note
3 p. typescript phonetic/concrete poem in German
Box 1, Folder 1
"Begegnung mit Franz Kafka,"
1926
Scope and Content Note
4 p. typescript annotated essay on a seemingly invented
encounter with Kafka, Berlin 1923/Limoges 1960, published in
Prager Nachrichten, v.11, no.5/6, Munich, May/June
1960
Box 1, Folder 1
"Zwei Buecher,"
April 1964
Scope and Content Note
4 p. annotated typescript dated by Hausmann, Graz, April 1964,
consists of reviews for Richard Huelsenbeck's,
Dada-eine literarische Dokumentation and Hans
Richter's,
Dada-Kunst und Antikunst, published in
Manuskripte (13) v.5, no.1, Graz, March 1965
Box 1, Folder 1
"Dadaradatsch,"
1965 July 6
Scope and Content Note
2 p. typescript prose text with dedication in Hausmann's
handwriting, to Doris Hahn, 6/7/65
Box 1, Folder 1
"Les possibilites d'information de la poesie par le
magnetophone,"
March/April 1966
Scope and Content Note
3 p. annotated typescript essay about poetry and
electronics
Box 1, Folder 1
"Voila Dada sorti de l'ombre,"
26 Mar 1966
Scope and Content Note
2 p. typescript about Dada, published in
Phantomas, no.68-72, Brussels, July 1967
Box 1, Folder 1
"Dadaspruch fuer Oesterreich,"
undated
Scope and Content Note
1 p. typescript about Dada, undated, published in
Manuskripte (16) v.6, no.1, Graz, April 1966
Box 1, Folder 1
"Dada s'emeut se meut et meurt a Berlin,"
1966
Scope and Content Note
7 p. annotated typescript essay on history of Dada, dated in
Hausmann's hand, Limoges 6/7/66, published in
Phases, v.13, no.11, Paris, May 1967
Box 1, Folder 1
"Falls on the falling earth,"
1966
Scope and Content Note
3 p. typescript poem dated Limoges, 6/30/66
Box 1, Folder 1
"Die artikulierten Worte ...,"
1966
Scope and Content Note
1 p. typescript text dated 9/6/66
Box 1, Folder 1
"Längstverblichene Kunstsprache ...,"
1966
Scope and Content Note
1 p. typescript text dated 9/7/66
Box 1, Folder 1
"Ça y est,"
1966
Scope and Content Note
1 p. typescript prose text dated 11/7/66
Box 1, Folder 1
"Mnememento,"
1966
Scope and Content Note
1 p. annotated typescript prose text
dated 11/14/66
Box 1, Folder 1
"Recherches sur une structuration du langage,"
1968
Scope and Content Note
6 p. offprint published in
Studies in the 20th century, no.2, Troy, Fall
1968
Box 1, Folder 1
"The optophonetic dawn,"
1969
Scope and Content Note
4 p. offprint translation by Frank W. Lindsay of the essay,
"Eidophonetische Morgenroete" (see in folder 2), published in
Studies in the 20th century, no.3, Troy, Spring
1969
Box 1, Folder 2
Raoul Hausmann manuscripts,
undated
Physical Description:
12 items
Box 1, Folder 2
"Die Artikulation in der Sprache (Von Wittgenstein bis
Adorno),"
undated
Scope and Content Note
4 p. annotated typescript about the meaning of words, undated but
possibly from the 1960s.
Box 1, Folder 2
"Memento Salomo Friedlaender - Mynona,"
undated
Scope and Content Note
2 p. typescript essay on the Expressionist satirical author
who wrote under the pseudonym Mynona
Box 1, Folder 2
"Die Sprache der Fische und der Voegel und die
Phonie,"
undated
Scope and Content Note
3 p. typescript, an essay on tone and hearing
Box 1, Folder 2
"Gradezu,"
undated
Scope and Content Note
1 p. typescript prose poem
Box 1, Folder 2
"Les inventions et les manifestations du Club Dada de
Berlin,"
undated
Scope and Content Note
6 p. typescript history of Club Dada and Dadaist movement with
one page of 3 questions posed by Huelsenbeck and answered by Hausmann
Box 1, Folder 2
"Meine Beziehungen zur Weltliteratur,"
undated
Scope and Content Note
3 p. typescript essay describes Hausmann's introduction to
literature
Box 1, Folder 2
"Eidophonetische Morgenroete,"
undated
Scope and Content Note
3 p. annotated typescript essay about Khlebnikov, Russolo and
Hugo Ball and the roots of sound poetry
Box 1, Folder 2
"Der Einfluss des Dadaismus auf die neue Literatur,"
undated
Scope and Content Note
5 p. annotated typescript on the influence of Dadaism
Box 1, Folder 2
Optophonetic statement,
undated
Scope and Content Note
1 p. annotated typescript explains Hausmann's ideas on
phonetic poetry
Box 1, Folder 2
"Elektronische Eidophonie,"
undated
Scope and Content Note
5 p. typescript addresses the origins of sound recordings and
Hausmann's optophone apparatus
Box 1, Folder 2
"Dada bis heute,"
undated
Scope and Content Note
1 p. typescript essay explains the origin of Dada
Box 1, Folder 2
"Die Phasen des Wortes und der Geste,"
undated
Scope and Content Note
4 p. annotated typescript essay about neo-Dada, pop art and
Intermedia in relation to historic Dada
Box 1, Folder 3
Raoul Hausmann letters,
1960-1970
Physical Description:
18 items
Box 1, Folder 3
Letters to Franz Jung,
1960-1962
Scope and Content Note
Signed 11 typescript letters (12 pp.) to fellow Dadaist Franz
Jung covering topics from his declining relationship with Huelsenbeck to
articles Hausmann is preparing for publication.
Box 1, Folder 3
Letter to Cläre Jung (wife of Franz Jung)
18 Dec 1960
Scope and Content Note
About Hannah Höch from whom he has separated himself
Box 1, Folder 3
Letter to Frau Meyer,
22 Feb 1961
Scope and Content Note
Signed typescript letter protesting the publication of an
article about him written by Jung.
Box 1, Folder 3
Letters to Richard Huelsenbeck,
1968-1970
Scope and Content Note
Signed 5 typescript letters (6 pp.) resuming their friendship
and discussing historical and current Dada projects.
Series II.
Richard Huelsenbeck manuscripts and correspondence,
1956-1975
Physical Description:
46 items
Scope and Content Note
The typescript manuscripts are Huelsenbeck's
Arp and the Dada movement and
Dada und Existentialism. The correspondence is
primarily with Willy Verkauf and Hans Kleinschmidt and addresses the
publication of works about Dada and the history of Dada. The letters to
Kleinschmidt also describe personal anecdotes about his life upon his return in
1969 to live in Switzerland.
Box 1, Folder 4
Richard Huelsenbeck manuscripts,
1957,
1958
Physical Description:
2 typescripts
Box 1, Folder 4
"Arp and the Dada movement,"
1958
Scope and Content Note
5 p. typescript written in 1958 about Huelsenbeck's meeting
Arp, published in
Memoirs of a Dada drummer (1991) pp. 96-99
Box 1, Folder 4
"Dada und Existentialism,"
23 Apr 1965
Scope and Content Note
10 p. annotated typescript signed by Huelsenbeck and dated
April 23, 1965 [written in 1957] describes the historical perspective of the
Dada movement, its philosophy, its rejection and its main founders, published
in
Memoirs of a Dada drummer (1991) pp. 142-148
Box 1, Folder 5
Richard Huelsenbeck correspondence,
1956-1975
Physical Description:
44 items
Box 1, Folder 5
Letters to Will Verkauf,
1956-1959
Scope and Content Note
Signed 10 typescript letters (11 pp.) (on letterhead Charles
R. Hulbeck, M.D. which was the name Huelsenbeck used in New York where he
practiced psychoanalysis), most about the publication of works on Dada and its
history and Verkauf's book,
Dada - Monograph of a movement (1957), and file
includes signed typescript letter from Verkauf dated 30 Nov 1957 with details
about the book.
Box 1, Folder 5
13 letters to Hans Kleinschmidt,
1969-1973,
undated
Scope and Content Note
12 typescript and 1 handwritten letters, written upon
Huelsenbeck's final return to Switzerland, mostly about the differences between
living in Europe vs. America and the publication of his book and memoirs. With
13 envelopes addressed to Hans Kleinschmidt.
Box 1, Folder 5
Letters from Beate Hulbeck [Huelsenbeck's wife] to
Kleinschmidt,
1970-1975,
undated
Scope and Content Note
signed 4 typescript letters, 1 postcard and 1 greeting card
mostly about her personal life and her husband's effects.
Box 1, Folder 5
Card from Huelsenbeck to Jes Peterson [editor],
3/15/62,
15 Mar 1962
Scope and Content Note
About exemplars sent to him.
Series III.
Der Sturm,
1902-1967
Physical Description:
170 items
Scope and Content Note
A six page typescript gives the history of the magazine
Der Sturm and the archive collected by its founder
Herwarth Walden. A letter from Sonia Delaunay offers copies of Walden's
correspondence to Kleinschmidt. The remaining 168 letters to Walden from
well-known art figures of the time refer primarily to the history of
Der Sturm, and are all photostats, photocopies or
carbon typescripts.
Box 1, Folder 6
Sturm Archiv - Herwarth Walden and Kleinschmidt
correspondence,
1964-1967,
undated
Physical Description:
4 items
Scope and Content Note
Six p. typescript giving the history of the magazine
Der Sturm and the archive collected by its founder
Herwarth Walden. It consisted of over 3,600 letters and cards from about 200
senders. Two letters and 3 excerpts by Paul and Lily Klee (1916-1918) are
included as examples of such letters. Also includes request form regarding
reproduction rights from the Stiftung Preussische Staatsbibliothek sent to K.
(1964); typescript letter from K. to Galerie Gerda Bassenge with a request for
a photograph (1965); typescript letter from Sonia Delaunay to K. stating that
she will send the requested photocopies of the Delaunay-Walden correspondence
(1967).
Box 1, Folder 7
Letters to Herwarth Walden,
1902-1914
Physical Description:
12 items
Scope and Content Note
Photocopies of letters or cards from Guillaume Apollinaire (1
letter, undated), Paul Block, editor of the Berliner Tageblatt (6 letters,
1902-1912), Sonia Delaunay 1 letter and 2 cards, undated), and 2 unidentified
cards, 1913 and 1914.
Box 1, Folder 8
Letters to Herwarth Walden from Otto Freundlich,
1904-1911,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Photocopies of 43 handwritten pages. 8 letters from 1904-1911,
24 letters undated.
Box 1, Folder 9
Letters to Herwarth Walden,
1916-1921,
undated
Physical Description:
11 items
Photocopies of letters received,
1916-1921
Scope and Content Note
From Albert Gleizes, 1 letter,
undated, with duplicate carbon typescript in English; Iwan Goll (1 letter, 1921);
Berlage? (2 letters, 1916); Hermann Huber? (1 letter, undated); Lily and Paul Klee
(5 letters, 1916-1918).
Box 1, Folder 10
Letters to Herwarth Walden from Wassily Kandinsky,
1912-1913
Physical Description:
26 items
Scope and Content Note
Photocopies of eleven letters from 1912, 15 letters from Jan-Jun
1913.
Box 1, Folder 11
Letters to Herwarth Walden from Wassily Kandinsky,
Jul-Dec 1913
Physical Description:
23 items
Box 1, Folder 12
Letters to Herwarth Walden from Wassily Kandinsky,
1914,
undated
Physical Description:
19 items
Scope and Content Note
Photocopies of 10 letters from 1914, 9 undated.
Box 1, Folder 13
Letters to Herwarth Walden,
1904-1914,
undated
Physical Description:
26 items
Scope and Content Note
Photocopies of letters from Fernand Leger(3 letters, undated);
Adolf Loos (2 letters from 1909, 5 letters, undated, 5 sheets with addresses);
August Macke (7 letters, 1913, 1914, undated); Thomas Mann (4 letters, 1904).
Box 1, Folder 14
Letters to Herwarth Walden,
1910-1916,
undated
Physical Description:
19 items
Scope and Content Note
Photocopies of letters from Franz Marc (10 letters, 1912-1913);
Walter Mehring (6 letters, 1915, 1916, undated); Gabriele Munter (1 letter, 1916);
Max Pechstein (2 letters, 1910, 1911).
Series IV.
Photographs, clippings and offprints
1917-1971
Physical Description:
20 items
Scope and Content Note
Photographs, negatives, an offprint and clippings relate to
artists and their work. Most images are of people, some of books and artworks.
Box 1, Folder 15
Photographs, clippings, offprints and negatives,
1917-1971
Scope and Content Note
Photographs and clippings relate to well-known Dadaists of the
time including Hugo Ball, Richard Huelsenbeck, Jean Arp, Hans Richter, Max
Ernst and Hewarth Walden. Offprint, "Dada è anti ragione" by Richard
Huelsenbeck with photograph of Arp and Huelsenbeck taken in Zurich 1957, 1971.
A clipping contains 3 images of portraits of Dadaists. 14 photographs include
portraits of Hugo Ball, one in costume at the Cabaret Voltaire; a group shot of
Huelsenbeck, Richter and Arp in 1949; photo with several images of pages from
Huelsenbeck's book
Phantastische Gebete Arche; two photos of the Hugo
Ball lautgedict Karawane from 1917; portrait of Herwarth Walden from 1917;
photograph of a landscape; photograph of Max Ernst and Huelsenbeck; color
negative of essay by Huelsenbeck, Der neue Mensch; 18 strips of 35mm. negatives
of portraits and works of art of Dadaists.
Box 1, Folder 16
69 b/w photographs printed from b/w negatives
Scope and Content Note
[Printed by the repository, 1999 Jan 20.]
