Folders of writings and talks by Klaus Hinrichsen as well as research material collected by Hinrichsen and correspondence relating to Kurt Schwitters and other émigré and interned artists.

1920s–2004

Items available online are the personal papers of Klaus Hinrichsen. During 1940-41 Hinrichsen was interned in Hutchinson Internment Camp, Isle of Man. The collection documents his time there comprising of camp newspapers, poems, photographs, articles and an identification badge. Also included are his writings on the artist Kurt Schwitters who was also interned in Hutchinson Internment Camp and became a close friend.

Details of the remainder of the collection can be found on the Archive catalogue.

Collection Owner
Klaus Hinrichsen 1912–2004
Collection
Tate Archive
Acquisition
Presented by Klaus Hinrichsen's family in 2005.
Reference
TGA 20052

224 objects in this collection

Title
Folders of writings and talks by Klaus Hinrichsen as well as research material collected by Hinrichsen and correspondence relating to Kurt Schwitters and other émigré and interned artists.
Date
1920s–2004
Description
Items available online are the personal papers of Klaus Hinrichsen. During 1940-41 Hinrichsen was interned in Hutchinson Internment Camp, Isle of Man. The collection documents his time there comprising of camp newspapers, poems, photographs, articles and an identification badge. Also included are his writings on the artist Kurt Schwitters who was also interned in Hutchinson Internment Camp and became a close friend.

Details of the remainder of the collection can be found on the Archive catalogue.
Reference
TGA 20052

Showing 120 of 224 objects

British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) (London, UK), Klaus Hinrichsen Typescript for ‘Interned with Kurt Schwitters’

[May 1988]

Klaus Hinrichsen Annotated page of typescript

November 1985

Unknown person(s) Camp concert programme

20 October 1916

Unknown person(s) Concert programme

1940

Collection owner: Klaus Hinrichsen ‘The Camp’, No. 9

17 November 1940

Klaus Hinrichsen ‘The Camp’, No. 10

24 November 1940

Unknown person(s) ‘The Camp’, No. 12

7 December 1940

Klaus Hinrichsen Page of notes

date not known

Unknown person(s) Poem written in German

date not known

Hutchinson Internment Camp (Douglas, Isle of Man), recipient: Artists’ Refugee Committee (London, UK) Copy letter from Hutchinson Internment Camp to Artists’ Refugee Committee, London

20 December 1940