Tate Archive contains more than one million items on artists, art world figures and art organisations in Britain documenting the history of fine art practice in the UK. This includes letters, writings, sketchbooks, artworks, audio-visual material, etc.
Collection owner: Robert Adams 1925–87 View by appointment Sketchbooks of Jankel Adler
Available online are various items selected from the Kurt Schwitters collection featuring writings, correspondence and photographs, particularly relating to Schwitters‘ relationship with Edith Thomas, and the court case between Edith and Kurt Schwitters‘ son, Ernst, regarding the division of Schwitters‘ works following his death. Items from this collection also available online are: private view cards and exhibition catalogues relating to exhibitions featuring Schwitters‘ work; photographs of Schwitters, and his family and friends; and photographs of his works and locations he visited. Further details on this collection are available on the archive catalogue.
recipient: Quarto date not known Edith Thomas’s account of a visit to Jankel Adler
Available online are various items selected from the Kurt Schwitters collection featuring writings, correspondence and photographs, particularly relating to Schwitters‘ relationship with Edith Thomas, and the court case between Edith and Kurt Schwitters‘ son, Ernst, regarding the division of Schwitters‘ works following his death. Items from this collection also available online are: private view cards and exhibition catalogues relating to exhibitions featuring Schwitters‘ work; photographs of Schwitters, and his family and friends; and photographs of his works and locations he visited. Further details on this collection are available on the archive catalogue.
recipient: Quarto date not known Edith Thomas’s account of a visit to Jankel Adler
– ‚His life was one long journey‘ Discover the life of Jewish artist Jankel Adler
– ‚His life was one long journey‘ Discover the life of Jewish artist Jankel Adler
11 January 1933 My dearest Annerl! What wonderful Christmas gifts you’ve bestowed on me! And so soon after the complete works of Chekhov for my birthday! What can I say? Clifford might be more capable of finding words to express his joy . . . . . . but Etl? He can only sit before this hoard of wonderful, warm, colourful, intimate, elegant things – all chosen by his Annerl – and attempt to suppress the emotion he feels welling up inside him. For an Indian howl of victory might arouse suspicions, and he can’t do somersaults and cartwheels in …
Dr Alfred Adler gives the following as the aim of his individual psychology: that
‘Eagle‘, Georg Baselitz, 1981
