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Gertrude Langer Papers

  • UQFL157
  • Collection
  • ca. 1890-1984

The personal papers of Gertrude Langer (1908 – 1984) include diaries, correspondence, photographs, manuscripts and typescripts, notebooks and ephemera, including exhibition catalogues. The papers cover the period 1917 – 1984 including correspondence received between 1918 and 1984. The material from before 1938 includes papers relating to her Art History studies in Vienna and Paris as well as photographs taken during her travels in Europe. From 1929 onwards the papers include correspondence to and from her future husband Karl Langer (married in 1932), as well as photographs of their travels together. Correspondence and records from 1938 and early 1939 document the Langers’ escape from German-annexed Austria. Material after 1939 documents Gertrude Langer’s activities as a private art history educator and as an art critic in Brisbane. This material includes her lecture notes, lists of students attending the classes, printed ephemera, manuscripts and typescripts of her art reviews for the Courier Mail newspaper, as well as annotated exhibition catalogues. The papers also contain Arts Council of Australia and Queensland Art Gallery Society records, as well as material created by her husband Karl Langer. This includes correspondence received by him between 1922 and 1969, staff cards from his architectural firm (1950s), ephemera as well as sketch plans and architectural drawings for the Langers’ residence in St Lucia (1950).

Langer, Gertrude, 1908-1984

Photographs of Gertrude and Karl Langer; Family photographs

Photographs of Karl Langer, ca. 1915 – 1969. The earliest photograph is a studio portrait of Karl Langer and his sister Magda with their mother, captioned verso '1915'.
Photographs of Gertrude and Karl Langer, 1930 – 1969.
Family photographs, subjects identified, including parents Anna and Alois Freschl (Froschel), sister Lisl Goldhammer, later Korn), and cousin Oszkar Ascher, nephews Yochanan Goldhammer and Karl Rosse, ca. 1890 – ca. 1980.

Correspondence

Correspondence received by Gertrude Langer (nee Freschl / Fröschel) from family and friends, her husband Karl Langer, artists and arts administrators, journalists and readers of her art exhibition reviews. Correspondence from family members include her father Alois Freschl, her mother Channa (Anna) Fröschel, her sister Lisl Goldhammer (later Lisl Korn), her nephew Hans Georg / Yochanan Goldhammer ('Hansi'), her sister-in-law Magda Rosse-Langer, (nee Magda Langer, formerly Magda Blaschko, then Magda Rosse), her nephew Karl Rosse ('Karli'); her cousins Oszkar Ascher and Hedwig Ascher (children of her aunt Pauline 'Paula' Ascher, nee Freschl), her father-in-law Karl Langer senior and Resi Mödler (her and her sister's nanny, and their mother’s housekeeper). Correspondence from friends include Kathleen Campbell-Brown, Henriette ‘Henni’ Cornfield (nee Zerkowitz), Paul Engel, Stefan Goldhammer, Ernst Greiff, Mary Grosser, Dorothy Helmrich, Hanni von Maltzahn, Felix Morgenstern, Robert Rosenthal, Edward 'Teddy' Sachs. Correspondence from Australian artists include Barbara and Charles Blackman, Betty and Roy Churcher, Marjorie and Lloyd Rees, Kath and Len Shillam. The correspondence also Includes cards received from dignitaries (governors, politicians and ambassadors) as well as cards with original art works and prints, including from Douglas Annand, Betty Churcher and Roy Churcher, Margaret Cilento, John Coburn, Laurence Hope, Daphne Mayo, Mary Norrie and Angus Norrie, Lorie Sachs, Kath Shillam and Len Shillam and Josef Strzygowski.

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