Ernst Fuhrmann-Archive (ca. 8,000 pages)

The archive of Ernst Fuhrmann (1886-1956; poet and author; manager of the Folkwang-Press, last director of the Folkwang-Museum, estate administrator for Karl Ernst Osthaus) is comprised of published as well as unpublished mechanical- and hand-written manuscripts, letters, documents and printed matter from the 1920's and 1930's.  In addition, the archive includes typed manuscripts from the 1940's and 1950's.

When Ernst Fuhrmann emmigrated to New York in 1938, he left his archive to Wilhelm Arnholdt, a publisher from Hamburg with whom Fuhrmann had worked closely since 1924.  The collection of mostly unpublished manuscripts, written partly in english during Fuhrmann's stay in New York, were kept by his secretary, John Hickens, after Fuhrmann's death.

In 1992, Roland Jaeger, a second-hand book dealer from Hamburg, sucessfully united both parts of the archive. In March 1993, the complete inventory was acquired by the Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum with the financial support of the "Foundation for Art and Culture in Landes  Nordrhein-Westfalen" and Mr. Jörg Kreke, Hagen.

The archive materials are divided into three groups:

(1) Collection of writings, documents, and letters dated before 1938 from the Fuhrmann Archive formerly possessed by Wilhelm Arnholdt

(2) Typed manuscripts by various authors (partly translated from english by Elisabeth Fuhrmann)

(3) Typed manuscripts by Fuhrmann