Dramatic History of a Well-Known Collection
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Text of a lecture given by Marianne A. Huebner to the Needle and Bobbin Club in December 1961, recounting the history of her collection of antique textiles. It begins with her aunt's Frankfurt firm R. Riesser, which served royal, church and wealthy clients and built a collection of antique textiles, including Coptic pieces from the Bock collection. It then follows the collection through two World Wars, inflation, Nazi rule, Huebner's emigration to the U.S. in 1939, and the wartime concealment of the collection in eastern Germany. Her recovery of the collection in New York in 1960 is described. The article has one plate of a German embroidered altar-cloth dated 1630.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1962
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 9
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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