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144.7 Linear
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(347 boxes)
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Series I.G. 1990-1998
29.61 Linear
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(71 boxes)
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During the 1990s, private art collectors continue to be the core of the clientele,
including numerous new clients from Europe and the United States. Especially frequent
and extensive is the correspondence with the Dutch art collectors Theo Bakker, Jacobus
Hendrikus Bakker, Chris van Eeghen, K. W. D. Gratama, and Hans Hagemann; the German
art collectors Diethelm Doll, Rudolf August Oetker, and Albert Weidenbush; the Swiss
art collector Baron H. H. Thyssen-Bornemisza; and the art collectors in Spain Herbert
Schaefer and Manuel de Villegas y Urzáiz. Among the art collectors from United States
the most frequent and extensive is the correspondence with Alfred Bader in Milwaukee,
Wisconsin.
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Among the numerous new clients are the art collectors Peter and Hilde Alexander in
Vienna and Willem Arntz in Wassenaar in the Netherlands. There is also a frequent
exchange with the legal firm Russel Advocaten in The Hague. In 1998 Hans Max Cramer
writes to the Chairman of Microsoft Corporation, William H. Gates. The letters concern
the sale of a private residence and art collection in Switzerland.
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Cramer also maintains contacts with other art dealers, especially with the Old
Master dealer John Hoogsteder (Galerie Hoogsteder) in The Hague and the art gallery
Kunsthaus Bühler in Stuttgart (filed under Kurt and Gabriele Zimmermann). Generally,
in comparison with the previous decades, his business contacts with other art dealers
seem decreased. Instead, Cramer corresponds with auction houses, predominantly with
the Kunsthaus Lempertz in Cologne, Germany.
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Several American art museums continue to be clients of the Oude Kunst gallery; among
others the J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu, California (correspondence with John
Walsh); the Minneapolis Institute of Arts; the National Gallery of Art in Washington
DC.; and the Norton Simon Museum of Art in Pasadena, California. In Europe, the most
frequent correspondence is with Horst Vey, art historian and director of Staatliche
Kunsthalle Karlsruhe.
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Besides letters, the 1990s correspondence also includes a large number of short
handwritten notes stating the name of the client who called or visited the gallery,
usually with date and time, and a short summary about the nature of the inquiry.
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Arranged chronologically by year and within each year by month and within each month
alphabetically by name of correspondent. Occasionally, unfiled letters and printed
matter are kept in the first or the last folder of a monthly sequence.
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Museums and other institutions are filed under the name of the city, in which they
are located. Museums and other institutions in Austria are filed under the letter O
for Österreich. Museums and other institutions in The Hague are filed under D for Den
Haag oder under H for Haag. Art galleries are filed under the name of the gallery
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1990 |
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1991 |
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Correspondence from June 1991 (box 290) also includes accounts for the same time
period.
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1992 |
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Box 307 contains correspondence and printed matter concerning proposed EU
regulations for the art trade.
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| 295-307 |
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Correspondence |
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Correspondence from July 1992 (box 301) includes C.I.N.O.A. material. |
| Box |
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| 931 |
24 |
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Color Polaroids from Walter Irell |
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| 308-318 |
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1993 |
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Box 310 contains the 1993 annual report of the Vereeniging van Handelaren in Oude
Kunst in Nederland. Box 316, folder 18 contains the 1993 annual report of the
Parisbas Bank.
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1994 |
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| 853-861 |
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Correspondence |
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Folder |
| 931 |
25 |
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Color slides from Greta Alsberg |
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Pulled from box 857, folder 1. |
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| 873-880 |
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1995 |
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Letters and documents from 1995 concerning Banque Finindus and the Robeco Groep,
and a list of clients, are filed in Box 874.
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| 891-895 |
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1996 |
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| 903-910 |
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1998 |
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Correspondence |
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26 |
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Color photographs from W. F. Dutilh |
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Pulled from box 922, folder 6. |
