Grohmann archive
The Will-Grohmann-Archive is part of the art archive of the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart .
The estate of the art critic Will Grohmann with a volume of around 100,000 documents was offered to the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart after Grohmann's death at his request and acquired by it. This also included his reference library. The latter was integrated into the library of the museum with the exception of the small catalogs that came to the archive; Duplicates were handed over to the German Literature Archive in Marbach. The graphics from Grohmann's possession were not part of the purchase and are not in the archive; they were bequeathed to the State Gallery in Stuttgart after the death of the second wife.
The correspondence with German artists of the pre-war period such as B. Paul Klee or Ernst Ludwig Kirchner comprises several thousand pages, plus very large holdings on young European artists of the post-war period. There is also extensive correspondence with “ art people ” such as publishers, gallery owners, collectors, critics and others, as well as manuscripts and typescripts on Grohmann's publications. In addition, there are holdings on AICA , the international art critic organization, and the exhibition system from 1910 to 1968. After the art archives were relocated in 2009, they were reorganized, which has since been accompanied by a collection of the mostly unpublished documents.