Additional papers of David Mayor
1863–2011
David Mayor was born in 1948. While studying at Exeter University in the early 1970s he established the Beau Geste Press with Felipe Ehrenberg which led to an involvement in the Fluxus art movement. Mayor went on to organise an exhibition of Fluxus and would interview many key artists associated with the movement. Mayor's Austrian born mother Beate was an amateur painter and daughter of the actor Anny Schey von Koromla nee Schindler, who emigrated to the UK with her family in the early 1930s. Anny's first marriage had to been to the noted physicist, Robert von Lieben (1878-1913), uncle to the artist Marie-Louise von Motesiczky. This selection of material from the archive includes photographs of Anny taken throughout her life, and a cache of letters sent to her by the German-American artist Edward Renouf.
- Collection Owner
- David Mayor born 1948
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- Presented to Tate Archive by David Mayor, December 2007; 2015; 2016.
- Reference
- TGA 200730
79 objects in this collection
- Title
- Material relating to David Mayor’s Austrian ancestry
- Date
- 1896–1980
- Description
- This collection of correspondence, documents and photographs relate to David Mayor's ancestral Austrian family. His mother Beate Schey von Koromla was the daughter of Anny Schey von Koromla nee Schindler.
- Reference
- TGA 200730/2
