Tomas Schmit Archiv
The Tomas Schmit archiv, Berlin was established in 2008 by Barbara Wien, the estate executor, and Wilma Lukatsch.
The archive consists of the estate of the artist, who died on October 4, 2006, in Berlin. It has since been augmented by purchases of drawings and editions as well as by generous donations, in the form of correspondence, photographs and recordings, by friends including Peter Brötzmann, Paul Lovens, Evan Parker, Stefan Ripplinger, Andrea Tippel, Emmett Williams.
One of the goals of the tomas schmit archiv, Berlin is to compile an illustrated catalogue raisonné and, in so doing, to make Tomas Schmit’s drawings and texts, along with photographs, sound and film documents, available to the public on a Web site. Since April 16, 2011 this Web site www.tomasschmit.com is online and free for everybody to use.
Upcoming editorial endeavors of the tomas schmit archiv are: to edit and publish a volume of Tomas Schmit’s published and unpublished texts and to collect his complete correspondence with Peter Brötzmann, Ludwig Gosewitz, Wulf Herzogenrath, Dick Higgins, Rudolf Jährling, Arthur Köpcke, George Maciunas, Nam June Paik, Joseph Beuys, Wolf Vostell, Evan Parker, Stefan Ripplinger, Barbara Schwarz, Andrea Tippel, Annette Ussing, Barbara Wien, Emmett Williams and others.
The physical archive is not open to the public.
Friends of the tomas schmit archiv, Berlin, a nonprofit association, was founded on August 2, 2010, to finance compilation and maintenance of the archive.