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).

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.

3 boxes of books inscribed to Gertrude and Karl Langer, and/or annotated by them.