Adolphe Basler

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Portrait of Adolphe Basler by Amedeo Modigliani (1916). Brooklyn Museum

Adolphe Basler (born April 28, 1878 in Tarnów , Austria-Hungary ; died January 6, 1951 in Paris ) was a Polish-French author, gallery owner, art critic, art historian and collector.

Life

Adolphe Basler came from a family of rabbis and innkeepers in Krakow . From 1896 he studied chemistry in Zurich, before moving to Paris two years later , where he continued his studies at the Sorbonne . There he met compatriot Mécisla Golberg , author of La morale des lignes , who introduced him to the fine arts and art criticism . He was a frequent guest at the Closerie des Lilas , in the circle around Paul Fort and by Georges Kars . To make a living, he worked as an art dealer in the field of modernism, u. a. he was one of the first to acquire Moise Kisling's work . In the 1920s he headed the Galerie de Sèvres , where he showed works by Raoul Dufy , Maurice Utrillo and Othon Coubine .

Basler was in Parisian artistic circles in the Montparnasse district around Modigliani, Jules Pascin , André Salmon , Rudolf Levy and others. Hans Purrmann described Basler as “another, welcome Habitué des Dôme ”. Klaus von Beyme wrote:

"The Bernheims and Wildensteins , Berthe Weill and later Kahnweiler and the Rosenberg brothers , and Jewish critics like Adolphe Basler and Louis Mayer, who renamed himself Vauxcelles , dominated the scene."

Basler wrote a number of essays and books on artists of classical modernism, a. a. about André Derain , Charles Despiau , Henri Matisse , Pierre-Auguste Renoir , Henri Rousseau , Maurice Utrillo and Suzanne Valadon , as well as La Peniture indépendante en France and La Sculpture Moderne en France , which also dealt with Wilhelm Lehmbruck . Basler wrote a. a. also for the magazines Die Aktion , Der Cicerone , La Revue blanche , Latinité , Les Soirées de Paris and Mercure de France ; he also corresponded with Alfred Stieglitz .

In his first contribution to Die Aktion 1913, Basler reprimanded “the excessive intellectualism” of contemporary art in France and in return praised the naive “customs guard” Rousseau. Pablo Picasso was ambivalent about Basler; he appeared to him as a “hermetic, strange painter” who only made hints in his pictures and still created a “plastic symphony”. He was critical of cubism and futurism ; he spoke of "today's mechanization of art in the most interesting cubist-futurist speculations"; In his opinion, cubism was just a formula that artists would use “to free themselves from the rule of the conventional in painting.” The École de Paris described Basler as a stylistic Esperanto , a view that is now considered problematic becomes.

Basler owned a number of works by his artist friends, such as Picasso's drawing of a woman's head . He was u. a. portrayed by Amedeo Modigliani, Béla Czóbel , Isaac Grünewald , Moise Kisling and Foustedt. Basler's essays in German were mostly edited by Rudolf Levy.

Portrait of Adolphe Basler by Amedeo Modigliani

Publications (selection)

  • with Hans Curjel : Paris Chronicle . Biermann, 1922
  • Henri Matisse . Leipzig, Klinkhardt & Biermann 1924.
  • Indenbuam . Paris: Editions Le Triangle (ca.1925)
  • Henri Rousseau et son œuvre: (le Douanier Rousseau) . Paris: Librairie Gallimard, 1927 and New York City: Weyhe 1927
  • Pierre-Auguste Renoir . Paris: Gallimard 1928
  • with Ernest Brummer : L'Art Precolombien . Paris, Librairie de France, 1928
  • with Charles Kunstler: La peinture independante en France . 2 volumes. I: De Monet a Bonnard . - II: De Matisse a Segonzac . Paris: G.Cres 1929
  • Le cafard apres la fete ou l'esthetisme d'aujourd'hui . Paris: Jean Budry 1929
  • with Charles Kunstler: Le dessin et la gravure modern en France . Paris: Les Editions G. Gres, 1930.
  • Maurice Utrillo . Paris: Les Editions Cres, 1931
  • Leonard de Vinci . Paris: Braun & Cie. 1938
    • Leonardo da Vinci. Master of art . Mulhouse in Alsace: Braun, 1942

literature

  • Ulrich Wilke: Heinz Witte-Lenoir - catalog raisonné. Reports from him and about him - teachers, role models and companions - list of his works . Niebüll, Verlag videel o. J. (approx. 2003) ISBN 3-89906-669-3

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 1876–1951 in Paris meetings 1904–1914 , exhibition catalog of the Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum 1965; see. Different life dates 1879-1949 in Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America
  2. ^ Portrait in Livre Rare Book
  3. ^ Paris encounters 1904–1914. Exhibition catalog of the Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum 1965
  4. ↑ Klaus von Beyme: The Age of the Avant-garde: Art and Society 1905-1955 . P. 83
  5. ↑ Quoted from: Donatella Germanese: Pan (1910–1915): Writer in the context of a magazine .
  6. ↑ Kate C. Kangaslahti: Making the Cosmopolitan National. The Politics of Assimilation and the Foreign Artist in Interwar France . In: In the service of the nation: Identity foundations and identity breaks in works of fine art. Mnemosyne. Writings of the International Warburg College. edited by Matthias Krüger, Isabella Woldt. Berlin: Academy, 2011
  7. ↑ Picasso in the Metropolitan Museum of Art , edited by Gary Tinterow, Susan Alyson Stein
personal data
SURNAME Basler, Adolphe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish-French author, gallery owner, art critic, historian and collector
DATE OF BIRTH 1876 ​​or 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Tarnów , Crown Land of Galicia , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH 1949 or 1951
Place of death Paris , Seine department , France