Segall, Berta

Person

Dates

Existence: 1902 - 1976

Biography

Segall was born May 15, 1902 in Germany and is known as a German art historian and archaeologist. She went to the British School at Athens in Athens and found employment at the Benaki Museum in 1934, where she cataloged the goldsmith's work. In 1938, she emigrated to the United States where she worked for the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, cataloging antique jewelry. In 1942, she was in Washington, D.C. working to catalog Robert and Mildred Bliss' Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Collection, and then had a two-year Emergency Committee scholarship in Aid of Displaced Foreign Scholars to work on antique jewelry to complete.

Segall was then at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and at Johns Hopkins University. In 1956 Erich Meyer brought her on as a curator at the Museum of Art and Trades in Hamburg . Segall gave up work in Hamburg in 1959 and moved to Basel, where she lived as a private scholar until her death on July 4, 1976.

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

"S" Miscellaneous, 1951-1957

FOUND IN: Dumbarton Oaks / Collection: Dumbarton Oaks Garden Archives / Series: Correspondence / Sub-Series: Mildred Bliss Office Files, R-Z

Sub-Group — Box H, Folder: 10Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001

Scope and Contents: Correspondence between Mildred Bliss or her office staff and individuals, business, and organizations with the last name or name beginning with "S". One correspondence is from Corinna Lindon Smith about her edited article written by Joseph Lindon Smith.The individuals, corporations, and organizations are: Michael Stettler, David A. Randall on behalf of the Scribner Book Store (New York), bookseller information for "Salamangundi in the original parts", Percy Ernest Schramm, Berta...