Estate of Cornelius Gurlitt letters

Finding aid to the letter estate of Cornelius Gurlitt
Transcriptions of the letters

The finding aid for the letter archive and the transcription of the letters are provided as PDF documents.

Please note the following information on use

• In the findig aid, the archive signatures are noted above the letters, e.g. 31/42.
• These signatures are used in the transcriptions to find the corresponding letter. To do this, use the search function of your PDF reader, e.g. "Ctrl f".
• If the search in the transcriptions is not immediately successful, insert leading zeros: instead of 31/42 this would be 31/041.
• If you are interested in a scan of a letter, please send us the signature of the desired letter and we will then send you the corresponding file by e-mail. Please send an e-mail to:

In a further expansion stage, the letter archive is to be presented on the Internet as a dynamic database in a graphically appealing form.

Between 2005 and 2007, the estate was catalogued in depth as part of the DFG project "The Gurlitt Estate". Here you can find some information about it: Project Gurlitt Estate of Letters (completed).