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Franz Bartsch 1836–1910 (Collection / History of paper)
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Carl David Becher 1857–1934 (Collection / Book bindings)
Physician Carl David Becher from Karlsbad collected books in bindings that are of great interest to art historians. His collection consisted of around 400 works. The Deutsche Buchgewerbeverein (German Book Industry Association) acquired this collection in 1911 for the Deutsche Buchgewerbemuseum (German Book Industry Museum). In September 1945, following the relocation of the books during World War II, the Soviet “trophy brigade” transported them to the Russian National Library in Moscow, where they are still housed today. They are listed in a printed catalogue (Moscow 2007). By chance, four objects in Becher's collection remained at the Buchgewerbemuseum.
Axel Bertram 1936–2019 (Premortem legacy / Book art and calligraphy)
Berlin-based commercial artist, typographer and author Axel Bertram was a versatile German graphic designer. His premortem estate contains examples of book design and commercial art dating from the last five decades, including highly characteristic work from the GDR.
Scope: 16 linear metres. Period: 1955–2003.
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Arthur Beyerlein (Collection / Publishing history, history of printing, intaglio printing)
3 machines, 1 cupboard containing approx. 1,500 steel engravings, 53 sample books, 9 boxes containing the sample card indexes of art publisher Arthur Beyerlein and the stamping company Stahlstichdruck Ursula Funke covering the period from 1930–1991.
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Karl-Heinz Birkner 1919–1995 (Estate / Illustration)
The items in the estate of graphic designer and illustrator Karl-Heinz Birkner include correspondence, illustrated books, and pictures, sketches and drawings relating in particular to his work for the juvenile and sports book publishers of the GDR.
Scope: 16 linear me-tres
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Hans Heinrich Bockwitz 1884–1954 (Estate / Book history / history of paper)
In September 1955, the German Museum of Books and Writing took over the written estate of its director Prof. Dr. Hans H. Bockwitz, who died at the end of 1954.
Scope: 1 linear metre
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Gustav Adolf Erich Bogeng 1881–1960 (Partial estate / Book history)
Correspondence and documents relating for example to the Maximilian-Gesellschaft (Maximilian Society) and the International Book Trade and Graphics Exhibition, Leipzig–Bugra, 1914.
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Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels (German Book Traders’ Association) (Partarchive / Publishing history)
Documents relating to inactive memberships of the Börsenverein dating from between 1955 and 2005.
Scope: 9,626 fascicles. Period: 1955–2005
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Adalbert Brauer 1908–1990 (Partial estate / Book history)
Publications, particularly on the genealogy of the German book trade; collections of materials relating in particular to the Leipzig publishers and publishing families Gleditsch & Fritsch, Verlag und Druckerei Pierer, Altenburg, C. A. Starke Verlag, Limburg, Friedrich Christoph Perthes; correspondence (e.g. with Herbert G. Göpfert, Willy Lehmann, Stephan Justus Perthes, Heinrich Reclam, Helmut Rötzsch).
Scope: 10 archival boxes. Period: 1725–1990
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Eva van Breugel 1940–2011 (Collection / History of paper)
This collection of coloured papers, which passed to the Museum in 2011, contains around 1,050 sheets of coloured paper (including approx. 551 works by Eva van Breugel and around 499 by other artists), an extensive work archive (six handwritten work diaries and instruction books with English translations, correspondence, catalogues and similar). Eva van Breugel’s estate is therefore a valuable primary resource for artists, researchers, paper historians and art historians.
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Rolf Buscher 1941–2007 (Collection / Paper collection)
Collection of paper samples assembled by Dr. Rolf Buscher (1941–2007) and containing documentary evidence for his dissertation “From watermarks to branded paper: paper marking as an instrument of sales policy during the 20th century”, Trier, univ., diss., 2007.
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