Wang, C. (1909-2005). Small archive

Incl. New Year's greeting cards, articles, booklets, etc. (1-41) Forty-one New Years' and other greeting cards, var. techniques (collages, drawings, photogr., photomontages), var. places, 1961-2004, mostly postcard-sized, kept in sm. modern album. Very nice collection of lovingly produced, mostly unique greetings, each a small work of art, sent to Guido and Felicia van Deth in The Hague. (42) Alkema, H. De wondere wereld van Cilli Wang. Amst., Theater Instituut, 1996, 147 p., w. ills., orig. wr., 4to. Signed dedication in pen by Wang on title-p.: "Met veel liefde en wensen voor de toekomst". Also w. orig. drawing in black ink, gouache and gold by Wang, mounted on inside front wr. -and 14 others, mostly newspaper clippings but also incl. 4 theatre programmes.

Wang was a Jewish dancer, cabaretière, theatre actress and wife of German poet and philosopher H. Schlesinger (d. 1945). They fled to the Netherlands during a tour in Sweden in 1938, after the Anschluss between Austria and Germany. In 1975 she returned to her birthplace, Vienna. (total 56)