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Arnold Schönberg Estate.

In July 1930 Arnold Schönberg and his wife Gertrud Kolisch moved into an apartment in the Meran Corso Hotel at Nürnbergerplatz 3. It was to be their final address in Berlin before they emigrated to the US in 1933. A sideboard was built from this design. Schönberg later took the furniture with him to Los Angeles, where some of it is still owned by the family.

The Arnold Schönberg Estate contains the records of Arnold Schönberg (1874-1951), a composer, painter, teacher, theoretician, and innovator who is ranked amongst the prominent artistic figures in the history of western culture. His writings, apart from his compositions, are valuable documents for the musical, intellectual, and cultural history of the first half of the 20th century, as well as for exile studies, and thus for contemporary history. They are evidence of the multifaceted interests of an eminent artistic personality, and also address questions of aesthetics, Jewish affairs, politics, and religion.