Summary Information
At a Glance
Call No.: | MS#1763 |
Bib ID: | 11502615 View CLIO record |
Creator(s): | Schloss, Edith 1919- |
Title: | Edith
Schloss Burckhardt Papers
1962-2011
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Physical description: | 35 linear ft. (26 record cartons; 1 document box; 1 flat box)
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Language(s): | Material is in English.
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Access: |
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Arrangement
Arrangement
Material is arranged into ten series:
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Description
Scope and Content
The Edith Schloss Burckhardt Papers offer an extraordinary opportunity for research
into multiple areas of scholarship, especially unique insight into the lives and
experiences of women in the art world, an American artist's expat life in Rome from
the 1960s-2010s, the New York School of painters and poets, and a particularly rich
and far-reaching, vein of the avant-garde and experimental music world, to name a
few.
SERIES VII: PHOTOGRAPHS
In addition to photographs located within the Archive’s correspondence there
are over 1800 photographs of various sizes taken in locations including New
York, Italy, Egypt and Germany. Approx. 700 of the photographs are pasted
into spiral-bound notebooks with captions, circa 1962--2009.
SERIES VIII: NOTEBOOKS, DIARIES AND CALENDAR BOOKS
The Archive contains over 110 notebooks, diaries and calendars, circa
1962--2011. In addition todaily reflections and thoughts, many of the
diaries also contain copies of ESB’s outgoing correspondence.
Series X: 2016 Addition
Gift of Jacob Burckhardt
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Using the Collection
Offsite
Access Restrictions
This collection is located off-site. You will need to request this material at least two business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.
This collection has no restrictions.
Restrictions on Use
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of
the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs.
The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.
Preferred Citation
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Edith Schloss Burckhardt Papers
(MS#1763); Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University
Library.
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About the Finding Aid / Processing Information
Columbia University Libraries. Rare Book and
Manuscript Library; machine readable finding aid created by Columbia University
Libraries Digital Library Program Division
Processing Information
Papers processed July 2015 Adrien Hilton
Finding aid written July 2015 Adrien Hilton
Machine readable finding aid generated from MARC-AMC source via XSLT
conversion July 16, 2015
Finding aid written in English.
2015-07-17
xml document instance created by Adrien Hilton
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Subject Headings
The subject headings listed below are found in this collection. Links below allow searches at Columbia University through the Archival Collections Portal and through CLIO, the catalog for Columbia University Libraries, as well as ArchiveGRID, a catalog that allows users to search the holdings of multiple research libraries and archives.
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Subjects
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History / Biographical Note
Biographical Note
Edith Schloss was born in Offenbach, Germany. She was sent
to France and England to learn languages and, in 1936, attended a private school in
Florence where she first fell in love with Italy. Edith eventually ended up in
England working as an au pair while going to night school. During the Blitz she left
England in a convoy that landed in New York City. In New York Edith attended
lectures and dance performances at Cooper Union and studied painting and printmaking
at the Art Students League. She also studied art history, music and poetry at the
New School for Social Research.
Her friend, Heinz Langerhans, German sociologist and
follower of Marxist theoretician Karl Korsch, introduced her to Anne and Fairfield
Porter. In 1944, Porter introduced Edith to Elaine and Willem de Kooning, and soon
after she moved into a West 21st Street Chelsea loft that de Kooning had painted for
Walter and Ellen "Pit" Auberbach.
Edith very quickly became a part of the de Kooning/Denby
Chelsea scene that included photographer/filmmaker/painter Rudy Burckhardt and the
Jane Street Group around Nell Blaine. In 1947, she and Burckhardt married. Edith was
"known for knowing everyone who counted in Manhattan's legendary postwar art scene,"
(New York Sun, 2008) and she, Burckhardt and Denby were vital components of the New
York School and the loft scene of that era.
In 1962, Edith and Rudy Burckhardt separated, at which
point Edith and her young son Jacob moved to Rome. In Italy she painted and
supported herself with her writing; she was the Italian art editor for the
International Herald Tribune for nearly 20 years and wrote forWanted in Rome. During
this time, Edith became friends with artists Cy Twombly (with whom she had an
exhibition), Giulio Turcato, Paul Klerr and Peter Rockwell. She was also a longtime
partner and lifelong friend of composer/performer/teacher Alvin Curran, with whom
she often collaborated. Edith continued to work and paint up until she died in 2011
at the age of 92.
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