Series IV.A. General correspondence, 1954-1990, undated
1.04 linear feet
(2 and a half boxes)
Geisser's professional correspondence dates from 1954 to 1990. It includes exchanges with art historians, private collectors,
and curators at art museums and other institutions holding collections of prints and drawings. Among art historians are several
well known experts on medieval, Renaissance and Baroque art such as as Günter Bandmann, Kurt Bauch, Jan Białostocki, Bruno
Bushart, Luitpold Dussler, Julius S. Held, Werner Haftmann, Egbert Haverkamp Begemann, Justus Müller Hofstede, Thomas DaCosta
Kaufmann, Dieter Koepplin, Klaus Lankheit, Konrad Oberhuber, Konrad Renger, Marcel Roethlisberger, Werner Schade, Hana Seifertová,
and Horst Vey. The most extensive correspondence is with Werner Schade. Also present is Geissler's correspondence with well
known collectors and art experts Jacques Fryszman, Fritz Lugt, and I.Q. van Regteren Altena; and with editors at the publishing
house Macmillan Publishers Ltd. The correspondence is of a purely professional nature, dealing with matters of connoisseurship,
exchange of information concerning artists and the current whereabouts of their work, and, to a lesser extent, iconography.
Of particular interest is the photocopy of a 1967 letter to Geissler from the widow of the twentieth-century German painter
and photographer Wols (pseudonym of Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze) in which she describes Wols's life, including internment
in France under Nazi occupation during World War II, and relates details concerning several of Wols's artworks.
Letters from correspondents whose names could not be identified are filed at the end. The first folder contains a typed list
of names found with the letters and photocopies of labels of original housing. Most letters are letters received. If not indicated
the file contains letters sent as well as letters received. Letters sent by Geissler are carbon copies.
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by correspondent.
Box
Folder
66
1
Copies of labels, list of names, undated
66
2
Andrews, Keith, 1973, 1985-1987, undated
66
3
Appuhn-Radtke, Sibylle, 1987
Letter received.
66
4
Azétat-Pellicer, Françoise, 1982, undated
66
5
Bandmann, Günter, 1973
Letter received.
66
6
Bardua, Heinz, 1982
Letter received.
66
7
Bauch, Kurt, 1973
Letter received.
66
8
Becker, Karin, 1982
Letter received.
66
9
Białostocki, Jan (Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie), 1978
Letter received.
66
10
Biedermann, Rolf, 1982-1988
66
11
Boeck, Wilhelm, 1974-1976
Letters received.
66
12
Brehler, Friedrich Karl (Friedens Kunst Bewegung), 1974, 1981-1984
Letters received, also Brehler's letters to Peter Beye, printed matter.
66
13
Briels, Jan, 1983
Letter received, notes by Geissler.
66
14
Brockmüller, Edelband, undated
Letter received.
66
15
Bucher, Werner, 1982
66
16
Bunzl, Yvonne Tan, 1970
Letter received.
66
17
Bursche, Stefan (Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz), 1983
Letter addressed to Hauptkonservator and signed HWS who writes on behalf of Landesdenkmalamt regarding a drawing by an artist
from Flein, with a mention of Bruno Bushart.
68
11
Volk, Brigitte, 1974
Letter received.
68
12
Von, Hermann, 1958
Postcard received.
68
13
Wagner, Franz (Salzburger Barockmuseum), 1985
68
14
Wegner, Wolfgang, 1972
Letter received.
68
15
Winkler (Ehem. Staatliche Museen Berlin Kupferstichkabinett), 1955
Letter received.
68
16
Wolf, Emile E., 1987
Letter received.
68
17
Wols, Grety (Wols's widow), 1967
Letter received (8 leaves). Photocopy of a letter to Geissler from Wols's widow in which she describes Wols's life in France
under Nazi occupation during World War II and relates details concerning several of Wols's artworks.
