Series IV.C. Concerning Friedrich Thöne's archive, 1938, 1952, 1974-1977, undated
0.42 linear feet
(1 box)
The material in this subseries includes Geissler's correspondence concerning the photographic archive of Friedrich Thöne and
two copies of Thöne's unpublished manuscript of "Die deutsche Meisterzeichnung." Filed at the beginning of the letters are
Geissler's notes about the archive.
Thöne's prewar correspondence is filed with Series I.A. under Ingolstadt with research material concerning Caspar Freisinger
(box 23). Thöne's postwar correspondence is filed with Series I.B. with research material concerning the Bocksberger family
(box 36). Contact sheets of Thöne's photographic archive, along with notes by Geissler, are filed in Series II. (box 46).
Arrangement
Arranged in two groups: letters concerning the archive and Thöne's unpublished manuscript.
Letters, 1938, 1952, 1974-1977, undated
Geissler's correspondence concerning the archive of Friedrich Thöne includes letters sent and received between 1974 and 1977.
Included is an exchange of letters between Geissler and Thöne, dating from 1974 and 1975. The 1938 letter to Friedrich Thöne
from Direktion der Bayerischen Staatsgemäldesammlungen and the 1953 postcard to Thöne from Ernst Gall were originally filed
by Geissler with this group.
If not indicated, the file contains letters sent and letters received. Letters sent by Geissler are carbon copies. The most
extensive exchanges are with Pietro Maietta, co-author of Thöne's
Diessenhofen, St. Katharinenthal, Paradies, published in Diessenhofen, Switzerland in 1965; Willibald Sauerländer at Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte; Rolf Hagen
at Stadt-und Kreis-Heimatmuseum Wolfenbüttel and at Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum; and Lucas Wüthrich at Schweizerisches
Landesmuseum in Zurich.
Box
Folder
69
1
Notes by Geissler, undated
69
2
Biedermann, Rolf, 1976
Letter sent.
69
3
Busshart, Barbara (and Brigitte Fetzer), 1976
Letter received.
69
4
Direktion der Bayerischen Staatsgemäldesammlungen, 1938
Letter to Friedrich Thöhne.
69
5
Frenoge, Max (Allerheiligen-Museum Schaffhausen), 1976
Letter sent.
69
6
Gall, Ernst, 1952
Postcard to Thöne.
69
7
Gmelin, Hans Georg, 1977
69
8
Hagen, Rolf (Stadt- und Kreis-Heimatmuseum Wolfenbüttel), 1975-1977
