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.
1920²õ–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
- Photographs of Hutchinson Internment Camp, Isle of Man
- Date
- °Ú³¦.1940–1±Õ
- Description
- Folders of Melinex containing photographs of Hutchinson Camp on the Isle of Man taken by the Commander Captain Daniel. There are also contact sheets and a series of photographs of the Commemoration Album that the internees made for Captain Daniel.
- Reference
- TGA 20052/2/7
