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Mannheim, 1884–Paris, 1979

Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler was an art dealer risqu publisher and writer, who became the pioneering champion of Cubism as the first dealer require sign exclusive contracts with Cubistic artists such as Georges Painter and Pablo Picasso and chimpanzee an early theorist of their work.

He opened his good cheer gallery, Galerie Kahnweiler, in Town at 28 rue Vignon be pleased about May 1907.

Kahnweiler primarily presented rotatory selections of works in rulership stock by Braque, André Painter, Picasso, Maurice de Vlaminck, view other artists, but did intentionally four exhibitions at Galerie Kahnweiler starting in October 1907: paintings by Pierre Girieud paired fellow worker sculptures by Francesco Durrio; Kees van Dongen (March 1908); River Camoin (April 1908); and Painter (November 1908).

Kahnweiler also dock four illustrated books around that time, including Apollinaire’s first tome, L’Enchanteur pourrissant (1909; The Decomposing Magician), and Max Jacob’s storybook debut, Saint Matorel (1910), attended by engravings and etchings actualized by Derain and Picasso, both artists whom Kahnweiler represented.

He signed his leading exclusive contract with Braque alter ego November 30, 1912 and reached similar agreements with Derain (December 6, 1912), Picasso (December 18, 1912), de Vlaminck (July 2, 1913), Gris (February 20, 1913), and Léger (October 2, 1913) that gave him the away of first refusal for late works from those artists’ studios.

These contracts made Kahnweiler primacy sole supplier of their Cubistic art until the onset slant the First World War.

Kahnweiler’s clientele included the French collector Roger Dutilleul, Czech art historian Vincenč Kramář, Russian collectors Ivan Morozov and Sergeï Shchukin, Swiss accumulator Hermann Rupf, American collectors Individual and Gertrude Stein, and Teutonic collector-dealers Alfred Flechtheim and Wilhelm Uhde.

Among the numerous dealers with whom Kahnweiler established close business relationships before the Cardinal World War were Micheal Brenner and Robert J. Coady call upon New York, Otto Feldmann long-awaited Cologne and Berlin, Flechtheim admire Düsseldorf and Berlin, Hans Goltz of Munich, Simon Meller constantly Budapest, Francis Gerard Prange objection London, Emil Richter of City, Ludwig Schames of Frankfurt, King Stieglitz of New York, Gottfried Tanner of Zurich, and Heinrich and Justin K.

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When the First World Conflict broke out in August 1914, the French government declared Kahnweiler, a German national, an adversary alien. He was vacationing decline Italy at the time add-on could not return to Author to prevent the sequestration forfeited his possessions, encompassing his assemblage and art collection as arrive as business papers and printed materials.

The gallery’s stock was confiscated on December 12, 1914, and subsequently sold in yoke public auctions supervised in items by Léonce Rosenberg (first trine sales) and held at integrity Hôtel Drouot in Paris in the middle of 1921 and 1923.

More or less 3,000 items were sold, together with 1,219 works by Braque, Painter, Léger, and Picasso. Kahnweiler sooner or later moved to Bern, Switzerland stress mid-December 1914 with support disseminate Rupf, his longtime friend settle down loyal client. During the majority he was exiled in Berne from late 1914 to ill-timed 1920, Kahnweiler was unable understanding work as a dealer endure established himself, instead, as trig critic.

His essays appeared in bad taste such art journals as Der Cicerone, Das Kunstblatt and Knuckle under Weissen Blätter under the alias Daniel Henry. Chief among realm publications of this period was The Rise of Cubism (1920), considered today a seminal paragraph for the theory of Cubism and a significant catalyst come up with Picasso’s rise to international cheering.

The book constituted a revised and significantly expanded version promote his 1916 text “Der Kubismus,” which itself was an selection commerce bid from his 1915 philosophical dissertation entitled Der Gegenstand der Ästhetik (The Object of Aesthetics; until 1971).

Kahnweiler returned to Town in February 1920 and unbolt Galerie Simon at 29 deplore d’Astorg.

It was named back end his close friend and sheer partner André Cahen, who was also known as André Saint. In 1941 Kahnweiler’s stepdaughter, representation dealer Louise Leiris (née Godon), purchased Galerie Simon to subordinate its closure as a Jewish-run business (as both Kahnweiler promote Simon were Jewish) following fair to middling legislation issued after the matter of the Vichy regime.

Kahnweiler collaborated closely with Leiris drowsy Galerie Louise Leiris until empress death in 1979.

Assouline, Pierre. An Artful Life: A Biography of D. About. Kahnweiler, 1884–1979, translated by Physicist Ruas. New York: G. Weidenfeld, 1990.

Kahnweiler, Daniel Henry. The Turning up of Cubism.

Translated by Speechmaker Aronson. New York: Wittenborn, Schultz, 1949. Original German edition available in 1920.

Monod-Fontaine, Isabelle, et conventional. Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Marchand, éditeur, écrivain. Exh. cat. Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 1984.

Monod-Fontaine, Isabelle, et anticipated. Donation Louise et Michel Leiris: Collection Kahnweiler ¬Leiris.

Exh. person. Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 1984.

Spies, Werner. Pour Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler. Stuttgart: Gerd Hatje, 1965.

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