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Most of the papers, which consist of correspondence and documents, concern the period 1911-1913 when Halle, then a student at the Kunsthistorisches Institut of the University of Vienna, went to Russia to study art history. The cataloged correspondence in this collection consists of letters from the following scholars: Boris Denike, Louis Rʹeau, Iakov Smirnov, Praskov'ia Uvarova, Josef Strzygowski, and Valentin Zubov. Arranged correspondence includes letters from various people and organizations, such as Imperatorskoe Moskovskoe Arkheologicheskoe obshchestvo, Imperatorskoe Stroganovskoe Tsentral'noe khudozhestvenno-promyshlennoe uchilishche, Kunsthistorisches Institut. Among documents are library IDs, including Biblioteka Istoricheskogo muzeia and Imperatorskaia Publichnaia biblioteka; member card of the Piatnadtsatyi Arkheologicheskii s"ezd v Novgorode; credential of the Vladimirskaia Dukhovnaia Konsistoriia; and list of publications provided by Imperatorskaia Akademiia Khudozhestv.
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Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Fannina W. Halle Papers; Box and Folder; Bakhmeteff Archive, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
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Papers: Method of acquisition--Purchase; Date of acquisition--1956.
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Papers Accessioned 1956.
Papers Processed 05/--/79.
2020-04-08 PDF removed. jg
2020-10-05 Authorities and notes revised and updated. ksd
Fannina W. Halle (1881-1963), Russian born Austrian art historian and sociologist. She was born in Panevezys, Lithuania, into a wealthy Rubinstein family. In 1907, Fannina married Dr. Walter Halle, the co-owner of the chemical firm Poznansky and Strelitz K.G. in the former Austro-Hungarian Empire. Soon after, she graduated from the Art History department of Vienna University and specialized in ancient Russian art. In 1921, she published a book entitled Altrussische Kunst based on her dissertation and several trips to pre - revolutionary Russia. She was very much involved in European feminist movement and in 1932, she published a book dedicated to the women in Soviet Russia (Die Frau in Sowiet-Russland). She is best known, however, because of her portrait painted by Oscar Kokoschka, 1910-1912, now at Tate museum in London. In 1940, Dr. Fannina Halle immigrated to the United States and lived in New York until her death in 1963.
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