Formed in 2009, the Archive Team (not to be confused with the archive.org Archive-It Team) is a rogue archivist collective dedicated to saving copies of rapidly dying or deleted websites for the sake of history and digital heritage. The group is 100% composed of volunteers and interested parties, and has expanded into a large amount of related projects for saving online and digital history.
History is littered with hundreds of conflicts over the future of a community, group, location or business that were "resolved" when one of the parties stepped ahead and destroyed what was there. With the original point of contention destroyed, the debates would fall to the wayside. Archive Team believes that by duplicated condemned data, the conversation and debate can continue, as well as the richness and insight gained by keeping the materials. Our projects have ranged in size from a single volunteer downloading the data to a small-but-critical site, to over 100 volunteers stepping forward to acquire terabytes of user-created data to save for future generations.
The main site for Archive Team is at archiveteam.org and contains up to the date information on various projects, manifestos, plans and walkthroughs.
This collection contains the output of many Archive Team projects, both ongoing and completed. Thanks to the generous providing of disk space by the Internet Archive, multi-terabyte datasets can be made available, as well as in use by the Wayback Machine, providing a path back to lost websites and work.
Our collection has grown to the point of having sub-collections for the type of data we acquire. If you are seeking to browse the contents of these collections, the Wayback Machine is the best first stop. Otherwise, you are free to dig into the stacks to see what you may find.
The Archive Team Panic Downloads are full pulldowns of currently extant websites, meant to serve as emergency backups for needed sites that are in danger of closing, or which will be missed dearly if suddenly lost due to hard drive crashes or server failures.
The wife of artist Max Beckmann (1884-1950), Mathilde Kaulbach, called Quappi, was the youngest daughter of the celebrated portraitist Friedrich August von Kaulbach (1850-1920) and his second wife Frida Schytte. Encouraged by her mother, a concert violinist, Mathilde was trained as a violinist herself and also studied voice and acting in Munich and Vienna. In 1924, while visiting the house of her friend the painter Marie-Louise von Motesiczky (1906-1996), she met Beckmann, in Vienna on route between Germany and Italy. Mathilda married Max Beckmann in Munich in 1925, after the artist had divorced his first wife, Minna Beckmann-Tube. The Beckmanns settled in Frankfurt where Max was appointed to teach at the Stadelsches Kunstinstitut. Mathilde served as a subject in many of her husband's paintings. In 1937 they moved to the Netherlands, one day after the "Degenerate Art" exhibition opened in Munich. By that time a total of 590 works by Beckmann had been confiscated by the Nazis. With help from Mathilde's sister, Hedda, who lived in the Netherlands, they moved to Amsterdam where they remained until 1947. In 1947 Beckmann accepted an invitation to teach at Washington University in Saint Louis; Mathilde and Max arrived in the United States on 18 September 1947. Mathilde attended all of her husband's classes in order to assist with the english language during his lectures and critiques. In September 1949 Beckmann started a tenured position at Brooklyn Museum Art School and they moved to New York. Beckmann died of a heart attack while walking near Central Park on 27 December 1950. Mathilde spent the remainder of her life in New York. She edited Beckmann's journals 1940-1950, published in Germany in 1955, and also wrote My life with Max Beckmann, published in 1983. The last three months of her life she spent in Jacksonville, Florida, where she died on 30 March 1986.
Bibliography
1983
Beckmann, Mathilda. My Life with Max Beckmann. 1983
1986
New York Times. 4 April 1986 [obituary]
1993
Schneede, Uwe W. Max Beckmann Briefe I (1899-1925).
Formed in 2009, the Archive Team (not to be confused with the archive.org Archive-It Team) is a rogue archivist collective dedicated to saving copies of rapidly dying or deleted websites for the sake of history and digital heritage. The group is 100% composed of volunteers and interested parties, and has expanded into a large amount of related projects for saving online and digital history.
