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Series IV: Writings by Others and Printed Matter, 1923-2000s
Series V: Photographs, 1914-2000s

Serge Hollerbach Papers, 1914-2019

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Series I: Correspondence, 1964-2019

Professional and personal correspondence with various people and organizations. Arranged into three sub-series: Correspondence with Individuals, Family Correspondence, Correspondence with Organizations. Within the sub-series arranged in alphabetical order.

Sub-Series I.1: Correspondence with Individuals, 1965-2019

(Correspondence with various individuals. Related materials, i.e. drawings, photographs, writings, clippings, etc., are included alongside the correspondence. Arranged alphabetically)


Box 1 Folder 1 Abramov, Vsevolod, 2000-2010

Box 1 Folder 2 Agenosov - Asaulenko, 1983-2008

Box 1 Folder 3 Balcomb, Mary - Blinov, 1985-2007

Box 1 Folder 4 Bowlt, John, 1982-2016

Box 1 Folder 5 Bradshaw - Butler, 1982-1991

Box 1 Folder 6 Cadillac - Chechik, 1973-2008

Box 1 Folder 7 Chinnov, Igor', 1983, undated

Box 1 Folder 8 Codin - Cuban, 2003, undated

Box 1 Folder 9 Dalio - Dmitriev, 1981-1997, undated

Box 1 Folder 10 Dobkin-Grid, Iakov, 1993-2003

Box 1 Folder 11 Dobushinskii, Vsevolod and Rostislav, 1978, 1999

Box 1 Folder 12 Doronchenkov, Il'ia, 1991-2003

Box 1 Folder 13 Dubrovskaia - Eg, 1989, 2006

Box 1 Folder 14 Elagin, Ivan, 1976, undated

Box 1 Folder 14 Ellinson - Fa, 1981, undated

Box 1 Folder 15 Fedotov, Anatolii, 1992-1996

Box 1 Folder 16 Feriara - Fesenko, 1992-1995

Box 1 Folder 17 Filipov, Boris - Filipova, Evgeniia, 1973-1996

Box 1 Folder 18 Fitzpatrick - Fridman, 1981-2015


Box 2 Folder 1 Galitskii - Gendler, 1973-1992

Box 2 Folder 2 Goriacheva, Iuliia, 2010-2018

Box 2 Folder 3 Gorodnii - Guerra, A., 1991-2014

Box 2 Folder 4-6 Guerra, Rene: correspondence with S. Hollerbach, 1975-2019

Box 2 Folder 7 Guerra, Rene: correspondence with various people, 1990-1998

(correspondence between Rene Guerra and various individuals, predominantly concerning Serge Hollerbach)

Box 2 Folder 8 Guerra, Rene: clippings, 1990-2008

(articles predominantly concerning Rene Guerra and his work)

Box 2 Folder 9 Hamilton - Hyman, 1973-2005

Box 2 Folder 10 Iliakhinskii, Viacheslav, 1966-1996

Box 2 Folder 11 Ingram - Ivanov, 1972-2004

Box 2 Folder 12 Ivask, Iurii, 1978

Box 2 Folder 13 Kaspar - Klimovich, 1972-2019

Box 2 Folder 14 Kolesov, Aleksandr, 2005-2009

(includes a photograph of Andrei Bitov)

Box 2 Folder 15 Komar, Vitalii - Kochinskii, 1990-1995, undated

Box 2 Folder 16 Kozlova - Krusinis, 1980-2009


Box 3 Folder 1 Ktorova - Kunkina, 1971-2018

Box 3 Folder 2 Kuznetsova, Olga, 2004-2019

Box 3 Folder 3 Ladore - Lazukhin, 1985-1995

Box 3 Folder 4 Lasunskii, Oleg, 1992-2009

Box 3 Folder 5 Lavrov - Loniak, 1990-2010

Box 3 Folder 6 Luksić, Irena, 1993-2000

Box 3 Folder 7 MacFarlane - Makunian, 1973-1998

Box 3 Folder 8 Manfred - Meijden, 1965-2001


Box 2 Folder 15 Melamid, Alexander, 1990, 1995


Box 3 Folder 8 Mendelson - Neizvestny, 1984-2000

Box 3 Folder 9 Neratova, Rimma, 1996-1997

Box 3 Folder 10 Nikolenko, Lada and Nikolai, 1972-1996

Box 3 Folder 11 Norris - Ostroi, 1982-2005


Box 4 Folder 1 Palicka - Pantelic, 1983-1995

Box 4 Folder 2 Parkhomovsky, Mikhail, 1991-1998

Box 4 Folder 3 Paunkovic - Pomerantseva, 1983-2008

Box 4 Folder 4 Popovsky - Quiller, 1992-2007

Box 4 Folder 5 Raeff, Marc, 1995

Box 4 Folder 6 Rannit, Aleksis, 1974-1984

Box 4 Folder 7 Rapuano - Rokhkind, 1991-1995

Box 4 Folder 8 Romadin, Mikhail, 1995-1998

Box 4 Folder 9 Rowan - Rzhevskii, 1973-2004

Box 4 Folder 10 SanSoucie - Sechkareva, 1983-1998

Box 4 Folder 11 Sedykh, Andrei, 1979, undated

Box 4 Folder 12 Segal - Sepp, 1987-1998

Box 4 Folder 13 Sergia, Victor, 1974-1979

Box 4 Folder 14 Setchkarev - Shapiro, 1988-2005

Box 4 Folder 15 Shatalov, Vladimir, 1984-1996

Box 4 Folder 16 Shchupliak, Elena, 1981-1994

Box 4 Folder 17 Shelkovskii, Igor' - Shkliarinskii, 1989-2003

Box 4 Folder 18 Shlappe, Aleksei, 1973-1986

Box 4 Folder 19 Shrayer - Sinevich, 1991-2009

Box 4 Folder 20 Sinkevich, Valentina, 1992-2009

Box 4 Folder 21 Skorobogatova - Sztein, 1988-1998


Box 5 Folder 1 Tatarinova - Turovskii, 1977-2004

Box 5 Folder 2 Ulianova - Vivien, Marina, 1985-1996


Box 3 Folder 7 Vysheslavskaia, Irina (Makarova), 1991-1998


Box 5 Folder 3 Walker - Whitney, 1982-1997

Box 5 Folder 4 Whitaker - Zinger, Oleg, 1993-2003

Box 5 Folder 5 Zorin, Iurii, 1973-2015

Box 5 Folder 6 Zornes - Zubchenko, 1995-2015

Box 5 Folder 7 Zueva, Elena, 1988-1992, undated

(see also her letters in Subseries I.2: Family correspondence--Udal'tsova: box 6, folder 8)

Box 5 Folder 8 Zverev - Zvoryshin, 1996-2001

Box 5 Folder 9-11 Thank you and holiday cards, 1973-2015, undated

(various individual and group thank-you notes and holiday greeting cards, predominantly from Serge Hollerbach's art students).

Box 5 Folder 12 Unidentified incoming letters, 1971-2015

Box 5 Folder 13 Outgoing letters to unidentified addressees, 1985-2008

Sub-Series I.2: Family Correspondence, 1964-2014

(Correspondence with family members, including Serge Hollerbach's son, Lev Hollerbach; nephew, Evgenii Gollerbakh; aunt, Anna Udal'tsova; cousin Marina. The correspondence includes related materials, such as writings, clippings, etc. Arranged alphabetically)


Box 6 Folder 1 Gollerbakh, Evgenii, 1992-1999

Box 6 Folder 2 Hollerbach, Lev, 1977-1996

Box 6 Folder 3 Milashevich, Zoia, 1989-2014

Box 6 Folder 4-8 Udal'tsova, Anna, 1964-1992

(also includes letters from Anna Udal'tsova's daughther Marina and Anna Zueva. More Marina's letters see: Series V: Photographs--Family photographs: box 14, folder 8)

Sub-Series I.3: Correspondence with Organizations, 1972-2015

(Correspondence with various organizations and institutions, including museums, professional associations, libraries, etc. Arranged alphabetically)

Box 6 Folder 9 A-M

Box 6 Folder 10 N

Box 6 Folder 11 P-Z

Series II: Writings and Diaries of Serge Hollerbach, 1970s-2017, undated

This series consists of numerous manuscripts on various topics, publications in newspapers and academic journals, original poetry, autobiographical writings, diaries and journals, and notes and drafts. Divided in five sub-series: Articles and Essays; Poetry; Autobiographical Writings; Diaries and Journals; Notes and Drafts. The Series may contain unpublished writings.

Sub-Series II.1: Articles and Essays, 1970s-2017, undated

(Writings on specific artistic, cultural, social, and historical topics. Divided into two parts: Manuscripts and Publications in Periodicals)

Manuscripts, 1970s-2010s, undated

(writings by Serge Hollerbach on various subjects. Typescript, often with handwritten corrections. Many of the manuscripts were published in American and Russian periodicals, or as components of separate books. Some were published in multiple formats. Some may be unpublished)


Box 7 Folder 1-2 Exhibition and book reviews

Box 7 Folder 3-5 On various people, including artists, writers, sculptors, etc.

Box 7 Folder 6-9 On art and art institutions

Box 7 Folder 10 Obituaries


Box 8 Folder 1-11 Various subjects

Publications in periodicals, 1970s-2010, undated

(photocopies of Serge Hollerbach's articles, reviews, etc. in various periodical. Predominantly Russian-language materials with some English. In chronological order)


Box 9 Folder 1-4 Newspaper publications, 1970s-2010

Box 9 Folder 5-8 Journal publications, 1970s-1995

Sub-Series II.2: Poetry, 1999-2017, undated

(Handwritten manuscripts, typescripts and books of poetry in Russian by Serge Hollerbach)

Box 9 Folder 9 Typescripts of Hollerbach's original poetry, undated

Box 9 Folder 9 Handwritten poems (notebook), undated


Box 10 Folder 6, 8 Handwritten poems in diaries and journals, 1999, undated


Box 15 Folder 2-4 Handwritten poems in sketchbooks, 1990s-2002


Box 9 Folder 10 Mysli v stikhakh, 2017

(self-published book)

Sub-Series II.3: Autobiographical Writings, 1963-1999, undated

(Writings by Serge Hollerbach in Russian and English on his own life history, emigration to the United States, artistic career, and on the history of his family)

Manuscripts and typescripts

Box 9 Folder 11 Catching the Mood Behind the Moment, 1998

Box 9 Folder 12 Istoriia sem'i (dlia Levushki), undated

Box 9 Folder 13 Iz vospominanii khudozhnika, undated

Box 9 Folder 14 [My life in America], undated

Published books


Box 10 Folder 1 From a Personal Point of View, 2016

Box 10 Folder 2 New York on My Mind, 2016

Box 10 Folder 2 Vspominaia... s ulibkoi, 2019

Sub-Series II.4: Diaries and Journals, 1963-1999, undated

(Serge Hollerbach's handwritten diaries and journals; in Russian; bound and loose. Some diaries are undated; Arranged chronologically)

Box 10 Folder 3-8 Notebooks and loose entries, 1963-1999, undated

(contains journal entries and writings, including poetry)


Box 15 Folder 3-4 Journal entries in sketchbooks, 1990s-2002

Sub-Series II.5: Notes and Drafts, undated

(Handwritten notes and drafts by Serge Hollerbach. In Russian; undated; unbound)


Box 10 Folder 9-11 Handwritten notes and drafts of various writings, undated

Series III: Documents and Biographical Materials, 1936-2010

Series arranged into two sub-series: Personal Documents; Biographical Materials.

Sub-Series III.1: Personal Documents, 1936-2010

(Documents, verification papers, awards, certificates, receipts and other materials regarding the life and work of Serge Hollerbach and his family)

Serge Hollerbach's documents


Box 11 Folder 1 Munich documents, 1945-1949

(documents related to Serge Hollerbach's time in Munich, where he was a student at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts from 1946-1949. Contains two photographs of a displaced persons camp in Germany, 1949)

Box 11 Folder 2 Passports and citizenship documents, 1950-2006

Box 11 Folder 3 Marriage and divorce documents, 1957-1971

Box 11 Folder 4 Awards and certificates, 1976-1999

Box 11 Folder 5 Travel, legal and financial documents, 1976-2010

Box 11 Folder 6 Various (lists, notes, etc.), undated

Box 11 Folder 7 Lev Fedorovich Hollerbach document: verification of release from exile, 1936

Box 11 Ludmila Hollerbach documents: citizenship and ID, 1955, undated

Sub-Series III.2: Biographical Materials, 1969-2009, undated

(Articles and reviews written by various people about Serge Hollerbach, his art, writings, and life. The sub-series also contains invitations, announcements, programs and other printed ephemera)

Box 11 Folder 9 Materials and printed ephemera on Hollerbach's art exhibitions, 1969-2009

(invitations, announcements, press-releases, etc. In chronological order)

Box 11 Folder 10 Materials and printed ephemera on Hollerbach's other events: lectures, conferences, workshops, 1992, 1998, undated

(invitations, programs, announcements)

Box 11 Folder 11-15 Publications on Serge Hollerbach, 1972-2008, undated

(publications and typescripts of articles and reviews on the art, writings and life of Serge Hollerbach. In Russian and English. In chronological order)

Series IV: Writings by Others and Printed Matter, 1923-2000s

Writings by others: books, printed ephemera, and various articles.

Typescripts, 1959-2000s

(writings by people other than Serge Hollerbach on topics other than Serge Hollerbach. Includes among other the writings of several of Serge Hollerbach's relatives and friends. Arranged alphabetically by authors)

Box 11 Folder 16 Al'pert, Naum. "Na malen'koi vystavke bol'shie raboty", undated

Box 11 Folder 16 Argus. Poem, undated

Box 11 Folder 16 Dobkin-Grid, Iakov. "V dome u sinego mosta" (incomplete), undated

Box 11 Folder 16 Gollerbakh, Evgenii. "Neprilichnyi anekdot", 1991

Box 11 Folder 16 L'vov, Sergei. "Lepota", undated

Box 11 Folder 16 L'vov, Vasilii. Transcripts of radio broadcasts on art, 1978-1979

Box 11 Folder 17 Rostovtseva, Liudmila. Articles, 1959-1978

Box 11 Folder 18 Rzhevskii, Leonid. "Monologi i paprika", "Polukrylyi angel", undated

Books, 1926-1995

(selected books from the library of Serge Hollerbach. Also includes photocopies of the title pages of books with inscriptions to Serge Hollerbach. Arranged alphabetically by authors)


Box 12 Folder 1 Bernatskaia, T. Kroshki zhizni, 1965

Box 12 Folder 2 Fillipov, Boris. Leningradskii Peterburg, 1973

Box 12 Folder 2 Fillipov, Boris. Shkatulka s dvoinym dnom, 1977

Box 12 Folder 3 Gollerbakh, E. Risunki M. Dobuzhinskogo, 1923

Box 12 Folder 4 Gollerbakh, E. Gorod Muz, 1930

Box 12 Folder 4 Kornilov, P. P. A. Shillingovskii, 1926

Box 12 Folder 5 Pomerantseva, N. Rossiia na Zapade, 1995

Box 12 Folder 5 Zemlianin, Ia. Anti-Lolita, 1982

(with author's inscription to Serge Hollerbach)

Box 12 Folder 5 Zhigalova, O. Dusha Veshchei, 1982

(with author's inscription to Serge Hollerbach)

Box 12 Folder 6 Photocopies of authors' inscriptions to SH, 1970s-2000s

Box 12 Folder 7 Printed ephemera, 1977-2007, undated

(various fliers, playbills, exhibits calendars, event announcements, newsletters)

Box 12 Folder 8 Various clippings, 1972-1999, undated

Series V: Photographs, 1914-2000s

Photographs of Serge Hollerbach and various people. Includes individual and group photos, portraits of Serge Hollerbach, photographs of him at work, and photographs of his relatives and friends. Many photos are with inscriptions. There are also photographs of Hollerbach's artworks.


Box 13 Folder 1-5 Individual photographs and portraits of Serge Hollerbach, 1948-2000s

(snapshots and portrait photographs of Serge Hollerbach. In chronological order)

Group photographs and events, 1966-2000s

Box 13 Folder 6 Serge Hollerbach and his students, 1970s-2000s

Box 13 Folder 7-12 Exhibitions and events, 1966-2009

Box 13 Folder 13 Various group photos, 1994-2000s

(Serge Hollerbach with various identified and unidentified people)

Photographs of various people, 1938-2000s

(individual and group photographs of various people, with or without Serge Hollerbach. Includes many artists and Russian emigres. Arranged alphabetically, with unidentified individuals at the end)


Box 14 Folder 1 Andreenko-Nechitailo, Mikhail, 1976

Box 14 Folder 1 Babo, undated


Box 2 Folder 14 Bitov, Andrei, undated


Box 14 Folder 1 Bobritskii, Iurii, 1951

(see also: group photos with him of 1983 filed under Lazukhin. Box 14, folder 3)

Box 14 Folder 1 Bushen, Dmitrii, 1976

Cooper, Mario, 1980s

Box 14 Folder 1 Daragan, Andrei, 1977

Box 14 Folder 1 Dobuzhinskii, Rostislav, 1987

Box 14 Folder 1 Ernst, Sergei, 1976

Box 14 Folder 1 Filippov, Boris, 1984-1990

Box 14 Folder 1 Gordeev, Vladimir, 1950

Box 14 Folder 2 Guerra, Rene, 1975-2000s

Box 14 Folder 3 Hamilton, Bob, 1996

Box 14 Folder 3 Iuniverg, Leonid, 1996

Box 14 Folder 3 Ivanov, Sergei, 1966-1980

Box 14 Folder 3 Kashkarov, Iurii, 1993

Box 14 Folder 3 Krivskii, Vladimir, 1997

Box 14 Folder 3 Kryzhitskii, Iurii, 1999

Box 14 Folder 4 Kublanovskii, Iurii, 1985

(group photo; filed under Mamleev)

Box 14 Folder 3 Lamm, Leonid, 1993

Box 14 Folder 3 Lazukhin, Mikhail and Viktor, 1983-2000s

Box 14 Folder 3 Likhachev, Dmitrii, 1997

Box 14 Folder 3 Lisovskii, Andrei, undated

Box 14 Folder 4 Makarova, Irina, 1990s

Box 14 Folder 4 Mamleev, Iurii, 1985

Box 14 Folder 4 Mul - Mus, 1955, undated

Box 14 Folder 4 Nama, George, 1986

Box 14 Folder 4 Nazarenko, Tatiana, 1996

Box 14 Folder 1 Nechitailo-Andreenko: see Andreenko-Nechitailo

Box 14 Folder 4 Pantelic, Vesna, undated

Box 14 Folder 4 Phillips, George, 1984

Box 14 Folder 4 Poliakov, Sergei, 1994

Box 14 Folder 4 Quiller, Stephen, 1995

Box 14 Folder 3 Riabov, Iurii, 2000s

(group photo; filed under Lazukhin)


Box 4 Folder 8 Romadin, Mikhail, undated


Box 14 Folder 4 Rzhevskii, Leonid, 1980s

Box 14 Folder 5 Sazonov, Rostislav, 1966, 1980s

Box 14 Folder 5 Segal, Martin E., undated

Box 14 Folder 5 Schakovskoy, Zinaida, 1938, 1980s

Box 14 Folder 5 Shatalov, Vladimir, 1985

Box 14 Folder 5 Shchupliak, Elena, 1990

(group photo; filed under Zubchenko)

Box 14 Folder 5 Shelkovskii, Igor', 1999

Box 14 Folder 5 Sinkevich, Valentina, 1985

Box 14 Folder 5 Tauber, Ekaterina, 1985

Box 14 Folder 5 Tselkov, Oleg, 1994

Box 14 Folder 5 Tupper, Lamonte H., 1999

Box 14 Folder 5 Turovskii, Mikhail, 1982

Box 14 Folder 5 Ulianov, Nikolai, 1976

Box 14 Folder 5 Wynn, Rita, 1994

Box 14 Folder 5 Zinger, Oleg, 1987

(see also: group photo with him of 1987 filed under Dobuzhinskii. Box 14, folder 1)

Box 14 Folder 5 Zubchenko, Katia, 1980s-1990


Box 13 Folder 6-13 Various people, 1966-2000s


Box 14 Folder 6 Unidentified, 1997, undated

Box 14 Folder 7-8 Family photographs, 1910s-2000s

(individual and group photographs of Serge Hollerbach's family members, with or without him. Includes photographs of Hollerbach's mother, Liudmila Rostovtseva; son, Lev Hollerbach; aunt, Anna Udal'tsova; uncle Sergei Udal'tsov; cousin Marina; nephew Evgenii; Zoia Milashevich. There is also Serge Hollerbach's childhood photographs)

Box 14 Folder 9 Photographs of artworks, undated


Box 11 Folder 1 Displaced persons camp in Germany, 1949


Box 14 Folder 9 Various, undated

Box 14 Folder 10 Photographic negatives, undated

Series VI: Artworks, 1946-2000s, undated

The series arranged in two sub-series: Serge Hollerbach's Artworks; Artworks by Others. Consists of original artworks on paper by Serge Hollerbach, including watercolors, drawings and sketches in ink, pencil and charcoal. There are also artworks by other artists.

Sub-Series VI.1: Serge Hollerbach's Artworks, 1946-2000s, undated

(Serge Hollerbach's original artworks. Also included are printed posters and catalogues of Hollerbach's exhibitions. Mostly undated. Arranged by medium)

Ink, 1980s-2006, undated


Box 15 Folder 1-6 Sketchbooks (19 total)


Flatbox 16 Folder 1-11 Sketches and drawings (138 total)

Watercolors


Flatbox 17 Folder 1 Sketchbooks (3 total), 1986, 1999, undated

Flatbox 17 Folder 2-3 Sketches and drawings (17 total)

Pencil and charcoal

Flatbox 17 Folder 4 Portrait of mother, 1948

Flatbox 17 Folder 5-6 Portraits and sketches (10 total)

Mixed media

Flatbox 17 Folder 7 Composition for Munich Art Academy, 1946

Printed


Flatbox 16 Folder 12 Photocopies of artworks

Flatbox 16 Folder 13-15 Posters for Hollerbach's exhibitions, 2001-2005


Box 14 Folder 11 Catalog of Serge Hollerbach exhibition "Dogs and People", undated

Box 14 Folder 12 Publications with Hollerbach's drawings,, 1993, 2004, undated

Sub-Series VI.2: Artworks by Others, 1993-1999, undated

(Portraits of Hollerbach by various artists and four artworks by Katia Zubchenko)


Flatbox 16 Folder 16 Portraits of Serge Hollerbach by Elliot, Romadin, Tupper, unidentified (4 watercolors; 2 sketches), 1993-1999, undated

Flatbox 16 Folder 17 Zubchenko, Katia: mixed media (4 total), undated