Schneid (Otto) Papers

The Czechoslovak born Otto Schneid (1900-1974) was a painter, sculptor, art historian, and writer. His collection consists of research materials for Schneid's unpublished book on 20th-century Jewish artists in Europe ("Der Jude und die Kunst" (1938)), manuscripts for his published and unpublished works, and galleys for his published writings. The research materials include correspondence with more than 120 Jewish artists, copies of their exhibition catalogues, and other published works, and photographs of their art. Most of these artists perished during the Second World War.