Scope and Content of Collection
The collection comprises 90 audio reels, primarily interviews by Judith Pearlman,
accompanied by some transcriptions, translations, notes and printed matter. Also included
are two videotapes of Bauhaus films; enhanced audiocassette tapes of the interviews, and
audiocassette use copies.
The audio reels record interviews with masters, students, and others associated with of the
Bauhaus in Germany. Interviewees include Anni Albers, Gertrude Arndt, Herbert Bayer, Max
Bill, Roman Clemens, T. Lux Feininger, Max Gebhardt, Ise Gropius, Larry Haas, Felix and
Livia Klee, Georg Muche, Winfried Nerdinger, Tut and Jaina Schlemmer, Gunta Stölzl, and Eva
and Andor Weininger. These interviews were assembled by Pearlman and her production company,
Cliofilm, as both research and content for her documentary Bauhaus in
America, as well as for an article written for the New York
Times Magazine in 1983.
Ten reels record roughly 10 hours from the 50 Years Bauhaus
conference and exhibition (1969) at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT).
Twenty files hold interview transcriptions and English translations, notes and research
material about Anni Albers, Walter Allner, Gertrude Arndt, Max Bill, Roman Clemens, Howard
Dearstyne, T. Lux Feininger, Ise Gropius, Werner Graeff, Peter Keler, Felix Klee, Jean
Leppien, Hannes Meyer, Georg Muche, Winfried Nerdinger, Walter Puff, Konrad Püschel, Tut and
Jaina Schlemmer, Gunta Stölzl, and Andor and Eva Weininger.
Arrangement
Organized in two series: Series I. Interviews, approximately 1960-1985; Series II.
Transcripts and notes, approximately 1969-1985, undated.
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