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Rheinisches Archiv für Künstlernachlässe
List of press articles in reverse chronological order
Tracing the Rhineland
Bonner General-Anzeiger, May 24, 2022
The Bonn Archive for Artists' Legacies acquires Dietmar Schneider's spectacular treasure trove of photographs and documents 
Race against time
Bonner General-Anzeiger, January 12/13, 2019
Rhenish Archive for Artists’ Legacies: New entries and a symposium in Bonn
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Valuable research material
Bonner Rundschau, July 12, 2017
Rhenish Archive for Artists’ Legacies has existed for ten years.
So that art does not die with the artist
Rhein-Zeitung, July 7, 2017
The Rhenish Archive for Artists’ Legacies has existed for ten years.
Treasures from the past
Bonner General-Anzeiger, May 31, 2017
The Rhenish Archive for Artists’ Legacies was founded ten years ago in Bonn.
The magic of the everyday
Bonner General-Anzeiger, December 9, 2016
The Siebengebirgsmuseum Königswinter is reminiscent of the painter Douglas Swan and his Bonn years
Wall mosaic restored in four months
Bonner General-Anzeiger, November 16, 2016
Revised work of art by Herm Dienz at the Till-Eulenspiegel-School shows abstract Seven Mountains
Between remembrance and forgetfulness
Bonner General-Anzeiger, April 10, 2016
Artists’ Legacies: international congress in the Federal Art Exhibition Hall in Bonn
Art will survive – but where
ARSPROTOTO, 1/2015
Artists’ Legacies as a challenge
Life and Survival of Photos in Archives
Annual 2013 of the Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal – September 20, 2014
A meeting organized by the Rheinisches Archiv fuer Kuenstlernachlaesse in cooperation with the Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Photographie (DGPH) (German Society for Photography) and the Von der Heydt-Museum.
Bequest rather than Legacy
Informationsdienst Kunst (548) – March 6, 2014
More and more living artists endow archives with their works and documents.
The Remains of an Artist
Bonner General-Anzeiger – November 24/25, 2012
The power of the artists’ widows and the distress of the historians. The Legacies Archive in Bonn (RAK) tries to save what can be saved.
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"This Feeling – This Light"
Neue Rhein Zeitung – October 13, 2011
Gabriele Schneiders donated eleven of her father’s paintings of the Lower Rhine landscape to the Kurhaus Museum.
A Donation for the Kurhaus
Rheinische Post – October 13, 2011
The Museum of Kleve recently received a collection of paintings by the painter Carl Schneiders. The Rheinisches Archiv fuer Kuenstlernachlaesse was instrumental in making the necessary contacts. They already had a meeting of experts at the Museum in 2010.
Everything concerning the Theme Artists’ Legacies
Neue Rhein Zeitung – September 18, 2010
On October 2nd, Moyland-Enemy Gerhard Pfennig was supposed to sit on the dais at the Kurhaus. Yesterday he declined the invitation.
Artists’Legacies – Blessing or Curse?
Rheinische Post – September 14, 2010
What is one to do, when the future of art works of historical importance are in jeopardy? How does one preserve the unity of an oeuvre, while the atelier is being dismantled?
Memory Reconstruction
Handelsblatt – October 9/10/11, 2009
Many places in Germany are engaged in assembling collections of artists’ legacies.
In Search of Signs of Life
Bonner General-Anzeiger – May 26, 2009
If Daniel Schuetz had had a little more luck during the research into the life of the artist Walther Rath for his MA paper, the creation of the “Rheinisches Archiv fuer Kuenstlernachlaesse” (RAK) might not have happened.
RAK Exhibition at the LVR-Landesmuseum (commentary)
Deutschlandfunk (German radio station) – May 8, 2009
A conversation with Christiane Vielhaber.
Colloquium at the Rheinisches LandesMuseum in Bonn (commentary)
WDR 3 (German radio station) – May 8, 2009
A conversation with Daniel Schuetz, the Director of the Rheinisches Archiv fuer Kuenstlernachlaesse.
Curation of artists’ legacies
Rheinische Post – May 8, 2009
When an authors dies, his heirs generally entrust a literary archive with his legacy. Maybe, the author himself had already taken steps to preserve his manuscripts and has made a bequest to a selected archive of his work. But what is the fate of the written documents left by formative artists?
The discovering of the past
Bonner General-Anzeiger – May 6, 2009
The Rheinische Archiv fuer Kuenstlernachlaesse introduces itself with a symposium at the Landesmuseum.
The Legacy Keeper
WAZ Kultur – February 25, 2009
In Bonn, in the Rheinisches Archiv fuer Kuenstslernachlaesse, Daniel Schuetz protects all that, that is left after the end of an artist’s life – everything except art. The connections of his institute reach as far as Belgium.
To Counteract the Disappearance
art Das Kunstmagazin – January 8, 2009
The Rheinische Archiv fuer Kuenstlernachlaesse in Bonn opened in 2008, and already curates 20 legacies of regional artists. The expert conservation of this material will be guaranteed and the archive will be accessible for researchers.
Artist’s Legacies – New Archive in Bonn
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung – August 15, 2008
Often, written, photographed, and personal documents of deceased artists will end up victims of downsizing and will be thrown away. And this results in the permanent loss of cultural mementos for future generations and scientific research. With this pronouncement, the Rheinische Archive fuer Kuenstlernachlaesse introduces itself as a foundation under the code of civile law, in the city of Bonn.
An Artists’ Archive comes to Bonn
Bonner General-Anzeiger – August 9/10, 2008
The newly established Rheinisches Archiv fuer Kuenstlernachlaesse collects exclusively written documents from artists’ legacies. The foundation was established in cooperation with the Heinrich-Heine-University and the Historical Archives of the city of Bonn, as well as the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelm University of Bonn.
Rheinisches Archive fuer Kuenstlernachlaesse – commentary
WDR 3 (Radio Station) – July 23, 2008
Deutschlandfunk (Radio Station) – August 1, 2008
The artist and his work. Personal testimonies and observances. A talk with Hannelore Becker-Willhardt.