Zone d'identification
Nom et localisation du dépôt
Niveau de description
Collection
Titre
Herman Beller Photograph Collection
Date(s)
- circa 1925-1950 (Production)
Importance matérielle
2 Boxes
Nom du producteur
Notice biographique
Herman L. Beller (1899-1972) was born in Komonitz Padosky Gobernia, Russia and moved to the United States as an young child. Shortly after his marriage to Jennie Engler, the young couple moved to Cuba for work. Beller began his career in Cuba working on machinery in sugar mills, where he manufactured dies to cast replacement parts for machinery. Deciding to move into the art world, Beller began producing bronze works for the City of Havana and for other commissions with his company, Industrias Unidas de Cuba.
Beller was actively involved in the Cuban-Jewish community and joined the efforts to help German and Austrian refugees seek safety in Cuba during WWII. After the war, Beller returned to New York and continued his work in the metal foundry business. He settled in Florida in the 1950s with his family and died there at age 73 in 1972.
Zone du contenu et de la structure
Portée et contenu
The Herman Beller Photograph Collection contains photograph of metal works done by Herman Beller's (1899-1972) Havana, Cuba-based company, Industrias Unidas de Cuba. The photographs detail works in parks, schools, and public areas and buildings all installed during the 1920s to 1950s. Several small examples of metal pieces cast by Beller are also included in the collection.
Mode de classement
Photographs are in Box 1 and the metal pieces are in Box 2.
Zone des conditions d'accès et d'utilisation
Conditions d'accès
This collection is open for research.
Accès physique
Accès technique
Conditions de reproduction
Requests to publish or display materials from this collection require written permission from the rights owner. Please, contact chc@miami.edu for more information.
Preferred citation: Herman Beller Photograph Collection, Cuban Heritage Collection, University of Miami Libraries, Coral Gables, Florida.
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Historique de la conservation
Name changed from Herman Beller Collection to Herman Beller Photograph Collection in July 2013.
Source immédiate d'acquisition
Gift of Natalie B. Lyons, 1994.
Évaluation, élimination et calendrier de conservation
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Existence et lieu de conservation des originaux
Existence et lieu de conservation des copies
Selected materials from this collection have been digitized.
https://digitalcollections.library.miami.edu/digital/collection/chc0400
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Processed by Natalie Baur and Martha Gónzalez, May 2013. Revised by Natalie Baur, July 2013. Updated by Rebeca Gonzalez, May 2021.