Correspondence for 1949-1951

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 1807 BIER/C/1/005
  • Dates of Creation
      1949 - 1951
  • Language of Material
      English German
  • Physical Description
      1 folder

Scope and Content

Letters, receipts and telegrams of Bier for 1949 - 1951 relating to sales of works of art, sending of photographs of stock to potential clients, shares of works of art with other dealers and dealings with museums and individuals. Includes the following correspondents:

Agnew, Colin
Antwerp, Royal Museum of Fine Arts
Ashmolean Museum
Baer, Jack
Bagrit, Leon
Bähr, Eugen
Beer Fine Art Ltd., de
Bernström, Bengt
Bier, Erich and Alice
Bier, Erwin M.
Bloch, Vitale
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts (U.S.A.)
Brenninkmeyer, B.
Bryson, John
Buttery, Horace A.
Cahn, C. (Mrs) (Tiny')
Calligaris, Gino
Carr, Sandelson and Co.
Cleveland Museum of Art (U.S.A.) including Helen S. Foote (Associate Curator of Decorative Arts) and William M. Milliken (Director)
Copenhagen, Carlsbergfondet [Carlsberg Foundation]
Chilston, Viscountess
Clark, Kenneth
Colnaghi and Co. Ltd., P. and D.
Costa, J. da
Crowther, Bert
Customs and Excise
Dulière, Gaston
Eisemann, Heinrich
Fischer, Carl (Dr)
Fitzwilliam Museum (U.S.A.)
Fogg Art Museum (U.S.A.)
Forte, Lilian
Frank, Robert
Frank Partridge and Sons Ltd.
Friedlander, Max I. (Dr)
Fritzes Kungl. Hovbokhandel, C.E.
Fröhlich, L. (Mrs)
Gerson, H. (Dr)
Gilou, A.E.
Glück, (Professor)
Goldschmidt, Julius
Goldschmidt, Mary
Goldsmith, Herman C.
Grange, T.P. (Paul) [also known as 'Graupe']
Hannover, Prinz von, Seine Hoheit Ernst August [Ernst Augustus, Prince of Hanover]
Heilbronner, H.
Holzscheiter, Ernst
Institute of Jamaica
Joseph Hirsch and Co. Ltd.
Kauffmann, Arthur
Knole, P. (Dr) [Associated with Prince of Hanover, Ernst Augustus]
Körner, E. (Dr)
Landais, H.
Lehmann, Julius
Linares, Abelardo
Loeb, Leopold A.
Loeb, Paul
Manchester, City Art Gallery (Mr Baxandall, Director)
Marlborough Fine Art Ltd.
Meissner, Kurt
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, U.S.A.)
Michigan, University of (Harold E. Wethey, Professor of Fine Arts)
Morassi, Antonio (Professor)
National Art Collections Fund, Manchester House, London
Newhouse Galleries (Bert and Clyde Newhouse)
Newton, R.A. (Captain)
O'Connor, Hector
Philadelphia Museum of Art (U.S.A.)
Pickfords Ltd.
Providence, Rhode Island School of Design (U.S.A.)
Roland, Browse and Delbanco
Rosenberg and Stiebel (Saemy Rosenberg, Hans Stiebel)
Rothschild, [Marian]
Scharf, A. (Dr)
Schilling, E. (Dr)
Schwarzenberger, L.
Spink and Son Ltd.
Spink, C. Marshall
Springell, F. (Dr)
Stanley Gorrie, Whitson and Burkitt
Suida, W.E. (Dr)
Summerson, John
Sutton, Denys
Swarzenski, H. (Dr)
Tel-Aviv Museum of Art, Friends of the
Thesiger, Roderic
Thoen, F.
Uzielli, Mario
Vierny, Dina
Voss, Hermann
Wallraf, Paul
Walter, Smee, Will and Co.
Weil, E.
Weiss, Leo H.
Welker, A. (Dr)
Wertheimer, Otto (Dr)
Westminster Bank
Wetzlar, H. (Dr)
Whitworth Art Gallery (Manchester)
Wolff, Lucien

Also includes a note detailing profits from stock for 1952.

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