| Ref No | WIA GC/1905/376 |
| Title | Mayer, Gustav to Warburg, Aby 19/10/1905 |
| Writer | Mayer, Gustav |
| Place1 | Hamburg |
| Recipient | Warburg, Aby |
| Date | 19/10/1905 |
| Format | manuscript and typescript |
| Contents | a letter marked 'confidential', with an enclosure, extant, describes the sequence of events surrounding an article by Mayer and Lichtwark's step to have the information suppressed; the financier Sir Alfred Beit, in London, had donated money to the Kunsthalle to be used on portrait paintings of public personalities; Lichtwark had sent his secretary to the newspaper office to request that Mayer's article be suppressed; since Mayer's article did appear in print, he had received a number of letters by painters requesting commissions for the Kunsthalle, which had been embarrassing to him; therefore he had to write to the Frankfurter Zeitung; cutting from the Frankfurter Zeitung |
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| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| DS/UK/173 | Lichtwark; Alfred (1852-1914); Dr. phil. | 1852-1914 |
| DS/UK/628 | Mayer; Gustav (04/10/1871-21/02/1948); Prof. Dr. | 04/10/1871-21/02/1948 |
| DS/UK/1667 | Frankfurter Zeitung; 1865-1943 | 1865-1943 |
| DS/UK/2245 | Warburg; Aby Moritz (13/06/1866-26/10/1929); Professor, Dr. | 13/06/1866-26/10/1929 |