Melitta Schmideberg-Klein (1904-1983), her husband Walter Schmideberg, and the families of her mother Melanie Klein and her father Arthur Klein. Photographs and personalia.

80 photographs : photoprints
4 documents

B. Sonnenstuhl (ed.), Eine noble Adresse: Prominente in Berlin-Dahlem und ihre Geschichten, Berlin 2005, p. 145 (no. 16 reproduced at head of chapter on Klein)

Wellcome Collection 44394i, acquired with assistance from the Melanie Klein Trust

1. Walter Schmideberg and Melitta Schmideberg by wall at entrance to castle

2. Walter Schmideberg and Melitta Schmideberg by palisade on beach at Nordseebad, Wittdün a. Amrum, Melitta Schmideberg with parasol

3. Walter Schmideberg and Melitta Schmideberg by wood. Inscription Dank für Waltersdorf I.VII.23

4. Walter Schmideberg and Melitta Schmideberg outside Sans Souci [Potsdam]. "Phot. Th. Clausen, Berlin N4, Bergstr. 13"

5. Walter Schmideberg and Melitta Schmideberg by beach as in 2, promenading

6. Walter Schmideberg and Melitta Schmideberg by beach as in 2, promenading, Melitta Schmideberg looking at Walter Schmideberg

7. Walter Schmideberg outside a palatial building [Sans Souci again?]

8. Walter Schmideberg standing by tramlines

9. Walter Schmideberg seated on park bench

10. Walter Schmideberg standing by tramlines

11. Walter Schmideberg by beach as in 2

12. Melanie Klein with Melitta Schmideberg as a child and her son Hans (b. 1907). Photograph by Hegedüs, text in Hungarian

13. Melanie Klein holding child in horse-drawn carriage, with the driver, her mother Libussa Reizes (in black), and nursemaid

14. Melanie Klein holding child in horse-drawn carriage, with the driver, her mother Libussa Reizes (in black), and nursemaid

15. Melanie Klein (right) with Melitta Schmideberg as teenager and Melanie Klein's son Hans in sailor suit.

16. Melanie Klein. Inscription "Zu Liebe Mama 29/VI/25". Her mother had died in 1914: possibly addressed to her mother-in-law?

17. The family of Arthur Klein (husband of Melanie Klein from 1899 to 1923). Nine people in group. Back row, left to right: Jolan (sister of Arthur Klein and a great friend of Melanie Klein); a brother of Arthur Klein; Hans Klein (older son of Melanie Klein); Arthur Klein (former husband of Melanie Klein and father of Melitta, Hans and Eric Klein); a brother and a sister of Arthur Klein. Front row, left to right: Melitta Schmideberg-Klein (b. 1904), daughter of Melanie Klein; Teresa Klein and Jakob Klein, mother and father of Melanie Klein

18. Melitta Schmideberg (?) as a girl in sailor suit. Budapest address on verso.

19. Melitta Schmideberg as young woman holding lion cub. Souvenir of visit to Berlin Zoo

20. Melitta Schmideberg as young woman, holding parasol. Stamp of Viennese photographer on verso

21. Melitta Schmideberg in winter clothes in photographer's studio. Budapest address on verso.

22. Melitta Schmideberg in ski resort, probably in the High Tatra mountains

23. Melitta Schmideberg holding lioness in lap. Fenyers & Conti Zoo, Berlin

24. Same as 19. dated on verso am 1/VI 17 (?)

25. Melitta Schmideberg standing against wall, wearing same clothes as in 22 and 24

26. Same as 20

27. Same as 20.

28. Melitta Schmideberg. Photographer Hodoš, Ruzomberok (Hungary, subsequently Czechoslovakia, subsequently Slovakia), where Arthur Klein worked in a paper mill, and where Melitta Schmideberg was born)

29. Melitta Schmideberg (?) in ski resort, probably part of sequence with 22

30. Melitta Schmideberg (?) with long hair

31. Melitta Schmideberg wearing pearl necklace. Signed by photographer (indistinctly)

32. Melitta Schmideberg in ski resort (later than 22 and 29)

33. Same occasion as 32, different pose

34. Group of about 25 people indoors, celebrating. By E. Hartung, Nordseebad Wittdün

35. Same group as 34, together with children, on the beach at Nordseebad Wittdün

36. Same group as 35 on a boat; Melitta and Walter Schmideberg in centre

37. Same group as 36, on the beach at Nordseebad Wittdün

38. Group (same as 35?), on a coach manufactured in Hamburg, outside a restaurant, on a round-trip leaving at 9.30 hrs.

39. Group on a coach outside a cathedral

40. Group on a coach for round-trip of Bremen, including Walter Schmideberg

41. Seven people in costume (for amateur theatricals?)

42. Three people: an elderly lady in black (Theresa Klein, mother-in-law of Melanie Klein), with one of her sons (a man with a moustache) and a younger woman (probably her daughter). Bears date "1926" in ink on recto, a word (undeciphered) and a date "1926[?] VIII/20" in ink on verso

43. Grave of Theresa Klein ("Frau Jakob Klein") in Ruzomberok, Hungary (subsequently Czechoslovakia, subsequently Slovakia), tombstone lettered in Hebrew and German

44. The children of Melanie Klein: left to right, Hans (b. 1907), Melitta (b. 1904), and Erich (b. 1914) in a photographer's studio

45. Apparently duplicate of 44

46. An old woman in a check blouse and a headscarf, with a younger woman: not members of the Klein family

47. Same as 46, different view

48. Group on the beach at Nordseebad Wittdün, including Walter Schmideberg. Photo by E. Hartung, Nordseebad Wittdün

49. Group of children, formally posed. British postcard (and subject, presumably)

50. Sculpted bust of man with beard and moustache: Jakob Klein, father of Arthur Klein and father in law of Melanie Klein. Inscription on recto obliterated

51. Duplicate of 50

52. Jakob Klein, father of Arthur Klein and father in law of Melanie Klein. Photograph

53. A man with spectacles: Arthur Klein, former husband of Melanie Klein. Pencil inscription on verso Sommer 1935

54. A man: Jakob Klein, father of Arthur Klein and father in law of Melanie Klein. Inscribed in ink on verso ... Alte von 88 Jahren in Jahre 1925

55. A large detached villa, five bays, three storeys: the Klein house in Berlin, subsequently sold to the university

56. A car with Melitta Schmideberg (?) inside it

57. An English town with old houses, Keep left sign in foreground. Alfriston, Sussex?

58. Notification to Walter Schmideberg (199 Gloucester Place, London NW1) of award of Defence Medal, 1946

59. Driving license of Walter Schmideberg, 1945 - 1946

60. Melitta Schmideberg s identity card, 1943

61. Melitta Schmideberg s identity card, 1947

62. Waterfall, Brecon.

63. Lake Lugano. Postcard sent to Walter Schmideberg, 1954 (shortly before his death on 22 September 1954), in Hirslander Klinik, Zürich, from Hilda and Fido. According to Chris Peterson, Hilda is the poet Hilda Doolittle (the Imagist HD ), 1886-1961

64. Bronze sculpture of a man standing on a big hand: Hand of God, Millesgården, Sweden

65. Lion cubs in a basket, Zürich Zoo. Postcard to Walter Schmideberg in Hirslander Klinik, Zürich, from Hilda, 1954 [identified as HD, Hilda Doolittle, former Imagist poet (1886?-1961)]

66. Lake Lugano. Postcard to Walter Schmideberg and Melitta Schmideberg in Sanatorium Baumer, Küssnacht, from Bryher (pen name of the author Winifred Ellerman) and Doris (unidentified)

67. The Foreign Office, St James s Park, London

68. Bepton Church, near Midhurst, Sussex.

69. Cowdray Park, Midhurst, Sussex.

70. Cowdray Park, Midhurst, Sussex.

71. Ruzomberok (also known as Rosenberg), on the banks of the River Var (a tributary of the Danube) in Hungary (subsequently Czechoslovakia, subsequently Slovakia). Birthplace of Arthur Klein (who worked in a paper mill there) and of his children Melitta and Hans

72. Alfriston Church, Sussex.

73. The white horse (chalk), near Alfriston, Sussex

74. Brecon Beacon.

75. Spread Eagle Hotel, Midhurst, Sussex.

76. Manor Farm, Heyshott, Sussex?

77. Mountain view near Zürich

78. Budapest, a church at night.

79. Budapest, various views.

80. Cowdray Park, Midhurst, Sussex.

81. Ruzomberok in Hungary (subsequently Czechoslovakia, subsequently Slovakia): a view of the town (see no. 71 above). Inscribed in pencil Rosenberg . Photo by Strangler, Košice

82. Classroom for cats. Inscribed on verso.

83. A cat. Postcard sent from Melitta Schmideberg ("MItta"), London, 1952, to Walter Schmideberg at Villa Kenwin, Burier La Tour, Vaud (a house built by Bryher: see no. 66 above)

84. Fionnay, Valais. Postcard sent to Walter Schmideberg in Klinik Hirslander, Zürich, 1954

A collection formed by Melitta Schmideberg-Klein