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Gyula Zilzer Archive

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Zilzer, Gyula, 1898-1969 (Creator of the archive)
  • Archive

The archive includes correspondence, biographies, certificates, prints, exhibition catalogs, newspaper clippings and photographs of Zilzer and of his work.

Reference Code
ARC. 4* 1779
Dates
1910-1991
Consists of
1.2 m..
Languages
English; hun; German; French;
location
  • The Archives Collection of the National Library of Israel The Archives Collection of the National Library of Israel
Title Gyula Zilzer Archive.
Additional Titles כותרת בעברית: ארכיון דיולה צילצר.
ארכיון גיולה צילצר.
Notes Other correspondence, writings, sketchbooks, photographs, diaries, biographical material and printed materials are to found at the Archives of American Art, donated by his widow, Mary Zilzer, in 1970.
Citation Note ARC. 4* 1779
Host Item Gyula Zilzer Archive
Level of Description Fonds Record
Biographical summary Gyula Zilzer (Budapest 1898 - New York 1969), painter, printmaker, illustrator and graphic artist, who also worked in Hollywood as production and stage designer for movies. Many of his graphics from the early 1930s depict the horror of Hitler and his National Socialist Party in Germany.
Ownership history The material was permanently deposited in the National Library by the judge Ya'akov Bazak, executor of the estate of Zilzer's widow, Mary, in 2002. Additional materials, such as Zilzer's diaries, his correspondence with her wife Mary, his US citizenship certificate, his latest US passport and photographs of Naomi Pittel have extended Zilzer's Archive at the National Library as a generous donation of Elazar Benyoetz in October 2011.
Language Note The material is mainly in English, Hungarian, French and German, but Russian, Yiddish and other languages are also sporadically represented in some letters and documents.
National Library system number 990029043830205171

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