Documents: Shreds of a Dialogue on Marxist Art History During the Cold War

Nicos Hadjinicolaou

For discussion of these images, refer to: Nicos Hadjinicolaou, “Shreds of a Dialogue on Marxist Art History During the Cold War,” in this issue of Selva.

1. Travel visa issued to Nicos Hadjinicolaou for a visit to the GDR (valid from April 2, until April 7, 1964), March 31, 1964.
2. List of master’s students at the Akademie der bildenden Künste in Munich during the summer semester of 1964. The left column shows the names of professors. The right column shows names of the students. The numbered names (written in ink) indicate the 12 participants at the Galerie Thomas exhibition.
3. Work schedule of the art history students for the Galerie Thomas exhibition, May 28–June 9, 1964.
4. Official invitation to the Galerie Thomas exhibition and panel discussion with the artists, 1964.
5. Conference program for the 5th International Hegel Congress, International Hegel Society, Salzburg, Austria, September 6–12, 1964.
6. Werner Timm, director of the Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen in Berlin (GDR), to Nicos Hadjinicolaou, October 22, 1964. Letter declining invitation to participate at the Munich conference.
7. Johannes Jahn, director of the Museum der Bildenden Künste zu Leipzig, to Nicos Hadjinicolaou, September 11, 1964. Letter declining invitation to participate at the Munich conference.
8. Günter Feist to Nicos Hadjinicolaou, October 20, 1964. Letter declining invitation to participate at the Munich conference.
9. Wolfgang Hütt to Nicos Hadjinicolaou, November 9, 1964. Letter declining invitation to participate at the Munich conference.
10. Nicos Hadjinicolaou to Peter H. Feist, August 26, 1964. Letter inviting Feist on behalf of the art history student association to participate at the Munich conference.
11. Peter H. Feist to Nicos Hadjinicolaou, September 9, 1964. Letter accepting invitation to participate at the Munich conference.
12. Peter H. Feist to Gerhard Börner of the Central Committee of the SED, September 10, 1964. Letter informing Börner of the invitation to the Munich conference and urging him to approve the participation of GDR scholars.
13. Heinz Lüdecke to Nicos Hadjinicolaou, September 27, 1964. Letter accepting invitation to participate at the Munich conference.
14. Willi Sitte to Nicos Hadjinicolaou, September 13, 1964. Letter accepting invitation to participate at the Munich conference.
15. Werner Hofmann, then director of the Museum of Twentieth-Century Art in Vienna (today known as the Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien), to Nicos Hadjinicolaou, September 18, 1964. Letter declining invitation to participate at the Munich conference.
16. Arnold Gehlen, professor at the Technische Hochschule Aachen, to Nicos Hadjinicolaou, September 7, 1964. Letter declining invitation to participate at the Munich conference.
17. Werner Haftmann to Nicos Hadjinicolaou, September 11, 1964. Letter declining invitation to participate at the Munich conference.
18. Martin Gosebruch to Nicos Hadjinicolaou, September 3, 1964. Letter accepting invitation to participate at the Munich conference.
19. Wolfgang Klähn to Nicos Hadjinicolaou, September 28, 1964. Letter accepting invitation to participate at the Munich conference.
20. Konrad Farner to Nicos Hadjinicolaou, September 23, 1964. Letter tentatively accepting invitation to participate at the Munich conference.
21. Wilhelm Messerer to Nicos Hadjinicolaou, November 6, 1964. Letter declining invitation to participate at the Munich conference.
22. AStA student accountant to Nicos Hadjinicolaou, 1964. Expense report for the Munich conference.
23. Burda Druck und Verlag GmbH to art history student association at the LMU, December 10, 1964. Invoice for printing fifty posters advertising the conference.
24. Program for the Munich conference, November 13–14, 1964.
25. Studentenfunk München to art history student association, March 31, 1965. Invoice for taping Konrad Farner’s talk and sending the tape to his address in Thalwil near Zürich.
26. Wilhelm Rottach, president of AStA, to Nicos Hadjinicolaou, October 29, 1964. Letter informing Hadjinicolaou that the university authorities no longer recognized him as representative of the art history student association and asking him to send a substitute to the meeting with the rector.
27. Wilhelm Rottach to the art history student association, November 4, 1964. Letter announcing that the university had authorized the Munich conference.
28. Wilhelm Rottach to Nicos Hadjinicolaou, November 6, 1964. Letter informing Hadjinicolaou that the Ministry of the Interior did not have any reservations about the Munich conference.
29. Nicos Hadjinicolaou, “Einführende Worte,” November 13, 1964. Introductory remarks at the Munich conference.
30. Front cover of Peter H. Feist’s Prinzipien und Methoden marxistischer Kunstwissenschaft (Leipzig: E.A. Seemann, 1966), 36 pages, 19 x 13.5 cm.
31. Peter H. Feist, “Ist eine isolierte zeitfreie Kunst möglich? Marxistische Kunstwissenschaftler vor Münchener Studenten,” Humboldt-Universität 2, January 27, 1965.
32. Anonymous student to Peter H. Feist, Heinz Lüdecke, and Eberhard Bartke, November 16, 1964.
33. Doris Schmidt, “Marxistische Kunstwissenschaft: Zu einer Diskussion in München,” Feuilleton of the Süddeutsche Zeitung, November 23, 1964.
34. Hans Günther, “Marxistische Kunstinterpretation: Zu einer mutigen Veranstaltung,” Information: AStA der Universität München, vol. 8, no. 7 (1964), 6. Article in a periodical published by the Munich AStA concerning the conference.
35. Peter H. Feist to Nicos Hadjinicolaou, November 30, 1964.
36a. Peter H. Feist to State Secretary of the Ministry of Education of the GDR, “Betreff: Vortragsreise nach Westdeutschland (München), 12.–21.11.1964,” January 1, 1965. Evaluation report on the Munich conference. (P. 1)
36b. Peter H. Feist to State Secretary of the Ministry of Education of the GDR, “Betreff: Vortragsreise nach Westdeutschland (München), 12.–21.11.1964,” January 1, 1965. Evaluation report on the Munich conference. (P. 2)
36c. Peter H. Feist to State Secretary of the Ministry of Education of the GDR, “Betreff: Vortragsreise nach Westdeutschland (München), 12.–21.11.1964,” January 1, 1965. Evaluation report on the Munich conference. (P. 3)
37. Peter H. Feist to Eberhard Bartke at the Ministry of Culture of the GDR, “Betreff: Nationale Arbeit,” April 10, 1965.