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| Series I. Correspondence, 1936-1998
144.7 Linear
Feet
(347 boxes)
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Series I.F. 1980-1989
40.45 Linear
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(97 boxes)
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During the 1980s, private art collectors are the core of the clientele. Most of Hans
Max Cramer's correspondents are private art collectors in Europe and United States,
including many with whom a business relationship had already been established in the
1960s and 1970s. His correspondence with other art dealers seems decreased. Instead,
Cramer corresponds more frequently with international auction houses such as
Sotheby's, Christie's or the Kunsthaus Lempertz in Cologne, Germany.
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Correspondence continues with the Dutch art collectors Th. Bakker, Chris van Eeghen,
E. ten Cate; K. W. D. Gratama, Hans Hagemann, and J. L. W. Sillevis Smitt. The 1988
correspondence with the Dutch industrialist and art collector Hans Hagemann includes a
substantial exchange with John Walsh at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu,
California. The Hagemann correspondence is filed under Hagemann as well as under
Malibu.
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Among the German art collectors are Diethelm Doll in Bad Godesberg, the enterpreneur
Rudolf August Oetker, Herbert Schaefer, the merchant and publisher in Bremen Carl
Schünemann Jr., Hans-Günther Soll in Düsseldorf-Gerresheim, and Albert Weidenbusch in
Solingen.
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Correspondence also continues with the Swiss art collector Baron Hans Heinrich
Thyssen-Bornemisza in Castagnola, Switzerland; and with the Spanish art collector
Manuel de Villegas y Urzáiz in Bad Godesberg, Germany and in Madrid, Spain.
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Among the art collectors in the United States Cramer continues to correspond with
Edward William Carter in Los Angeles (occasionally filed under Los Angeles) and John
Lowenthal in New York. New is his correspondence with the Barbara Piasecka-Johnson
Collection in Princeton, New Jersey (filed under Johnson); Frits Markus in New York;
Baronne Gabriella Bentinck in Paris, France; and the architect and art collector Tino
Walz in Munich.
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During the 1980s Cramer also continues to correspond with and sell artworks to
several museums in Europe and United States with whom he already established a
business relationship during the 1960s and the 1970s; but the most frequent
correspondence is with J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu, California; Norton Simon Museum
of Art in Pasadena, California; Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; Toledo Museum
of Art in Toledo, Ohio; and Staatsgalerie Stuttgart in Stuttgart, Germany. New is the
correspondence with the Art Gallery of Windsor in Windsor, Ontario, Canada (filed
under Windsor).
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Among the art dealers the correspondence continues especially with S. Nystad in The
Hague. New is the correspondence with the Kunsthaus Bühler in Stuttgart (filed under
Kurt and Gabriele Zimmermann); and Maria-Christina zu Sayn-Wittgenstein at
Sayn-Wittgenstein Fine Art Inc. in New York.
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Correspondence also continues with Ben and Margot Snyder at the Cranbrook School in
Bloomfield, Michigan; and with the Rembrandt scholar Werner Sumowski. New is the
correspondence with the art historian and director of Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
Horst Vey; and with Cramer's lawyer Egon Trockel in Essen.
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Besides letters, the 1980s correspondence increasingly includes 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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The correspondence from 1983, 1984, 1985 and 1986 includes letters sent and notes
concerning organizing the exhibition Holland in Engadin, which was
curated by Hans M. Cramer and John Hoogsteder and held at the museum Chesa Planta
[Plantahaus] in Zuoz, Switzerland. The letters are filed in folders labelled Zuoz
exhibition.
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Arrangement |
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Arranged chronologically by year and within each year by month and within each month
alphabetically by name of correspondent. Occasionally, notes, letters and printed
matter, such as press clippings, 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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1980 |
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| 176-184 |
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Correspondence |
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Folder |
| 931 |
10 |
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Color Polaroids from Veronica Freifrau von Hammerstein |
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Pulled from box 179, folder 9. |
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1981 |
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Included is a list of phone calls from January 1981 (box 185, folder 1). |
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| 185-192 |
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Correspondence |
| Box |
Folder |
| 931 |
11 |
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Color photograph from Langlois-Kennedy |
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Pulled from box 185, folder 11. |
| 931 |
12 |
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Color Polaroid from F.W. Rutten |
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Pulled from box 187, folder 18. |
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| 193 |
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1981-1982 |
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Correspondence concerning paintings from the exhibition Terugzien in bewondering wat verzamelaars kozen of paintings sold by the
art dealers Cramer, Hoogsteder and Nystad based in The Hague. The exhibition was
held from February 19 to March 9, 1982 at the Mauritshuis in The Hague. Also
included are drafts for text contributions to the exhibition catalog and other
papers related to the catalog.
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1982 |
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Correspondence from December 1982 includes some correspondence from January
1983.
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| 194-202 |
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Correspondence |
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Folder |
| 931 |
13 |
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Color photographs from J. Wissink |
| 931 |
14 |
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Color photograph from Horst Vey |
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Pulled from box 197, folder 12. |
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1983 |
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Letters sent and notes concerning the exhibition Holland in
Engadin are filed in box 210, folder 21.
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| 203-210 |
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Correspondence |
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Folder |
| 931 |
15 |
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Color photograph from Oskar Volkmann |
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Pulled from box 209, folder 19. |
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1984 |
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Letters sent and notes concerning the exhibition Holland in
Engadin are filed in box 211, folders 23-25.
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| 211-220 |
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Correspondence |
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Folder |
| 931 |
16 |
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Color photograph from Alwin Kaufmann |
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Pulled from box 215, folder 11. |
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17 |
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Color photograph sent to Myron Laskin at the J. Paul Getty
Museum
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Pulled from box 217, folder 12. |
| 931 |
18 |
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Color photographs and color slides from Charles E. March |
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Pulled from box 219, folder 11. |
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| 221-233 |
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1985 |
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Letters sent and notes concerning the exhibition Holland in
Engadin are filed in box 233.
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1986 |
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Letters sent and notes concerning the exhibition Holland in
Engadin are filed in box 234.
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| 234-243 |
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Correspondence |
| Box |
Folder |
| 931 |
19 |
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Color photograph from Frederic de Hoffmann at the Salk
Institute
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Pulled from box 238, folder 7. |
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1987 |
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| 244-252 |
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Correspondence |
| Box |
Folder |
| 931 |
20 |
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Color transparencies from Geneviève Rits |
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Pulled from box 246, folder 15. |
| 931 |
21 |
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Color polaroids from Galerie Hoogsteder |
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Twelve color polaroids. Pulled from box 250, folder 9. |
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1988 |
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| 253-261 |
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Correspondence |
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Folder |
| 931 |
22 |
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Color photograph and greeting card from Antiquitat zum Kaiser |
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Pulled from box 261, folder 4. |
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1989 |
| Box |
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| 262-272 |
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Correspondence |
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Folder |
| 931 |
23 |
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Letter and color photograph from Pardede-van Boetzelaer |
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Pulled from box 262, folder 13. |
