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"Special collections. Consultation only on microfiches in the Readingroom. The originals can only be consulted in exceptional cases on appointment with the archivist. Please contact info@rkd.nl or +31 (0)70-3339777" |
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"When Nelly van Doesburg died on 1 October 1975 in Meudon, France, the fate of the house, works, archive and library of Theo and Nelly van Doesburg was unclear. From 1969 on there were contacts between Theo van Velzen, Head of the Art Department of the Ministry of Welfare, Public Health and Cultural Affairs, and Jean Leering, then director of the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, concerning an annual budget and the possibility of a life-donation of the work of the versatile artist Theo van Doesburg to the State of the Netherlands. No agreement had been reached prior to his widow's death. Wies van Moorsel, Nelly's niece, was sole heir to the estate. She decided to donate Theo van Doesburg's house, works, archive and library to the Dutch nation (R. de Haas, 'Voorwoord', in: Straaten, E. van (ed.) 'Theo van Doesburg 1883-1931', The Hague, 1983, p.5.). Several years of negotiations between the French and Dutch governments ensued. In 1981 the French relinquished the estate. Thirty drawings for the Aubette in Strasbourg remained in French possession (R. de Haas, 'Voorwoord', in: Straaten, E. van (ed.) 'Theo van Doesburg 1883-1931', The Hague, 1983, p.5.). Soon after this, the works, the archive and the library were consigned to the Dienst Verspreide Rijkscollecties in The Hague, which in 1984 was subsumed into the Rijksdienst Beeldende Kunst (Netherlands Office for Fine Arts). From March 31 to July 17 1983 a selection of the Van Moorsel donation was on show in the Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, as part of a presentation of De Stijl architecture. Also in 1983, Evert van Straaten, the then curator of the Dienst Verspreide Rijkscollecties, compiled a documentary biography of Theo van Doesburg on the basis of the works and the archive (See bibliography). As of March 1st of 1991, on completion of the inventorization activities, the Theo van Doesburg archive and library were consigned as a loan to the care of the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie (RKD, Netherlands Institute for Art History) in The Hague. The photographs in the archive, however, passed into the collection of the Rijksdienst Beeldende Kunst (RBK, Netherlands Office for Fine Arts), and a number of Van Doesburg's literary manuscripts are on loan to the Letterkundig Museum in The Hague. Substitutes for these manuscripts are in the archive now managed by the RKD. For the sake of completeness it should be noted that the archive does not contain works of art by Van Doesburg, including his architectural drawings, which have been donated to the Dutch nation. These are kept in the RBK Art Collection. On the 8th June of 2011 the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed (RCE) converted the loan of 1991 into a donation to the RKD." |
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"The chief aim of inventorization was not to reconstruct the old classification but to create a new, logical arrangement that would meet the standards of archive technique as well as forming a logical and feasible point of departure for scholarly investigation. It was decided to draw up a comprehensive inventory of the archive. An important argument in favour of this detailed description of the documents was the keen interest evinced by parties in the Netherlands and especially in other countries, notably for the letters and photographs. Another determining factor in the decision was the commercial value of the archive (security argument). The question arose as to the extent to which a distinction should be drawn between Theo van Doesburg's archive and his wives'. Theo van Doesburg married three times (Agnita Feis, Lena Milius and Nelly van Moorsel). Many letters in the archive are addressed jointly to Van Doesburg and Lena, and to Van Doesburg and Nelly. With regard to both the correspondence and the photographs, it is extremely difficult to separate the Theo van Doesburg's archivalia from his wives'. It was finally decided to treat the archive as a whole and to describe it as the archive of Theo van Doesburg and his wives. Another problem was whether to distinguish between documents of a personal nature and documents drawn up or received by Van Doesburg in his various capacities. Van Doesburg's private and public life were closely intertwined. Any distinction in the archive would be very artificial, and was therefore rejected. A strict division of archive and documentation material was also rejected in view of the circumstance that in many cases such documentation as exhibition catalogues and articles by and about Van Doesburg in newspapers and journals, directly supports the archivalia in a strict sense. Only the documentation material not directly connected with Theo van Doesburg's life and work is listed under a separate heading." |
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"The archive consists primarily of correspondence, manuscripts, typescripts, photographs and a variety of documentation material. This documentation material comprises newspaper and magazine cuttings, single issues of newspapers and magazines, exhibition catalogues, invitations to openings of exhibitions and suchlike." |
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