Isabella Zuralski-Yeager
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Isabella Zuralski-Yeager is senior special collections cataloger at the Getty Research Institute. She writes finding aids for archival collections and catalog prints and drawings for the Research Library. She's written finding aids for numerous collections, including the Wassily Kandinsky papers, the Wilhelm Arntz papers, the Julius S. Held papers, the Heim Gallery records, the Albert Renger-Patzsch papers, the Galerie Schmela records, and a collection on Bauhaus typography. She has cataloged European prints, as well as rare books from the library's collections on festivals, and is a member of the library's bibliography team. She earned her PhD in art history in 1984 from the University of Cologne, Germany, and joined the Getty Research Institute in 1989 after working in the antiquarian book trade.
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Rosa Bonheur and Other Women Artists of the Belle Époque
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Records of the Parisian gallery Tedesco frères tell a story of commercial success
How George Grosz, an Émigre from Nazi Germany, Found Calm in Cape Cod
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Beachy watercolors from the artist contrast with earlier critiques of German society
Joseph Cornell’s Mail Art
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A look inside newly catalogued letters and collages by the American pioneer of collage and assemblage art
Nazi Art Looting in Holland
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Rare documents from the Dutch art market during World War II shed light on Nazi strategies for looting art for their planned Führermuseum
100,000 Pieces of Ephemera Tell the Story of 20th-Century Art
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After nine years of meticulous processing, Wilhelm Arntz’s collection of 20th-century art ephemera is ready to be explored.
Heinrich Geissler’s Groundbreaking Archive
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The influential curator’s research files illuminate the culture of exchange among 16th- and 17th-century artists in German-speaking Europe
Nazis Collecting Art
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Rare information about the art market during World War II
The Sky Gets a Chance—Gordon Matta-Clark’s “Office Baroque”
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Artifacts from Gordon Matta-Clark’s daring sculpture Office Baroque
Artwork by Richard Tuttle Discovered in the Archive of Galerie Schmela
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An unusual set of cards by Richard Tuttle emerges in the archives
Welcome to Alfred Schmela’s Art Gallery!
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An important archive on postwar art is now available for research at the Getty Research Institute