Nachlass Kurt Badt

Reference code

KHI- BAD.

Creator

Kurt Badt.

Repository

Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz).

Dates

1937-1949.

extent

4 boxes, the fund consists 1894 items

newspaper clipping notes printed matter correspondence TypeScript

arrangement

Documents are grouped in folders by subject and alphabetical / chronological order

Scope and content

Story of Amateurism in art Provenance Research and Exil Archive

contents

People and organizations

Wilhelm von Bode

Artists, schools, periods

Baroque Properzia de' Rossi Middle Ages Mannerism 16th century Leon Battista Alberti Baldassarre Castiglione Francis Place Joachim von Sandrart Felice Feliciano M. Sacchetti Nicholas Bacon Purchard

Genres and themes

Amateurism in art Miniature painting education Byzantine art ancient art aesthetics miniature book painting

History of collection

The origin of the fund seems partially to go back to the years when, escaped German racial laws, Badt lived for a while in Florence but the fund contains also more recents documents dating to the immediate post-war period.

Acquisition

donation. 1956.

CATALOGUING STANDARDS

ISAD

Finding Aids

Adlib Software

Access

available by request

archivists say

The collections is relevant for folk art in the Middle Ages and Modern studies