Senate Commission for the Fine Arts 363-2 Senatskommission für die Kunstpflege

Selected records of organization and administration of the Senatskommission für die Kunstpflege (Senate Commission for the Fine Arts), related to the state and non-state measures of art promotion and care, and scholarship applications. Includes minutes of the sessions of the Senate Commission for the Fine Arts (1925-1933), files of artists (Rée, Anita, painter; Rosenthal, A. von, sculptor); applications of the Hamburgische Künstlerschaft for the promotion of fine arts in Hamburg and the replacement of posts in cultural institutions (1930-1932), a report "Die Verhältnisse der bildenden Kunst in Hamburg in den Jahren 1919-1932“" (The Conditions of the Visual Art in Hamburg in the years 1919-1932); files of the establishment of a "Dr. Karl Muck Fellowship Foundation " and appointment of its board members (1928-1933) concerning exclusion of Jewish members; an offer of the sculpture of the bust of Adolf Hitler proposed by a professor Ferdinand Liebermann, Munich (1933); correspondence and reports on the establishment and construction of the Reichskartells der Bildenden Künste (1933). Copyright Holder: Staatsarchiv Hamburg (Germany)