Correspondence archive containing more than 200 letters and cards from painters, architects, actors, composers, musicians, and singers of the late 19th century.
A total of 511½ pp. on 358 ff. Various sizes.
€ 25,000.00
An extensive correspondence archive of the famous Viennese salonnière, a native of Waltershausen in Thuringia who married the well-respected Austrian publisher Moritz von Gerold (1815-84). In her elegant salon she received many eminent personages from art as well as scholarship. Among the correspondents, some represented in several letters, are Julius Allgeyer, Friedrich Ludwig Arnsburg, August Bassermann, Johann (Hans) Böhm, Viktor Boschetti, Irene and Josefine von Brennerberg, Eduard Csank, Bertha Ehnn-Sand, Carl Fröschl, Carl Frotzler, Robert Fuchs, Ludwig and Zerline Gabillon, Wilhelm Gericke, Ludwig von Gleichen-Rußwurm, Alexander Demetrius Goltz, Fritz and Louis Gurlitt, Carl von Hasenauer, Maria Hattingberg, Magda von Hattingberg-Graedener (née Richling), Carl Haunold, Franz von Holbein-Holbeinsberg, Heinrich von Hügel, Botho von Hülsen, Albert Ilg, Jozef Israëls, Louis Jacoby, Franz Köstinger, Johann Victor Krämer, Ferdinand Laufberger, Heinrich von Lefler, Joseph Lewinsky, Richard Lewy, Eduard Mandel, Karl Mayerhofer, Paul Mestrozi, Friedrich and Wilhelmine Mitterwurzer, Franz Mögele, Paula Müller, George Niemann, Clemens von Pausinger, Richard von Perger, Guido Peters, Bernhard Pollini, Carl Prohaska, Friederike von Prokesch-Osten, Karl Rettich, Friedrich Rheinsfelder-Anspach, Rudolf Ribarz, Maja Riedel (née Romako), August Schaeffer von Wienwald, Ellen Schlenk-Lechner, Theodor Schmidt, Robert von Schneider, Josef Schönbrunner, Adolf von Sonnenthal, Rosalie Spohr (countess Sauerma), Josef von Storck, Pauline Viardot-Garcia, Dagmar Walle-Hansen, Alois Walter, Gustav Walter, Josephine Wessely, Auguste Wilbrandt-Baudius, Julius Zellner, and Eduard Zetsche.
A detailed catalogue is available upon application.
