Gallery Brummer

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The Brummer Gallery (English Brummer Gallery ) was one in Paris and New York working art gallery , which was from 1906 to 1949.

The Hungarian brothers Joseph (1883–1947), Ernest (1891–1964) and Imre Brummer (1889–1928) opened an art shop in 1906 on Boulevard Raspail 6 in Paris, in 1913 the address was Boulevard Raspail 3, after 1918 Rue de Miromesnil 36, 1921 Boulevard Saint Germain 203bis.

When World War I broke out in 1914, Imre and Joseph Brummer opened a branch gallery in New York at 175 West 94th Street. The gallery moved several times (2 West 57th Street; 43 East 57th Street; 27-29 East 57th Street and 55 East 57th Street). Ernest, who had remained in France, took over the management of the Paris gallery after the war, Joseph that of the New York gallery. Ernest closed the Paris gallery in 1940 when the Germans invaded and moved to New York, where he worked again with his brother. The New York gallery was closed in 1949 after the death of Joseph Brummer in 1947. In 1947, the Metropolitan Museum of Art acquired part of the gallery's holdings, and another large part was auctioned off in several auctions in 1948.

The Brummer Gallery initially dealt with African and pre-Columbian art , but soon began to deal more and more with ancient and especially medieval art. In these areas it became one of the leading art dealers. She mainly supplied American private collectors (including William Randolph Hearst , John D. Rockefeller Jr. , Henry Walters , Grenville L. Winthrop ) and museums, especially the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its collection of medieval art The Cloisters in New York. In the 1920s and 30s the gallery also held numerous exhibitions of contemporary art in New York, including Maurice Prendergast in 1921 , Henri Matisse in 1924 , and Jacques Lipchitz in 1935 .

The gallery's business stationery is now in the library of the Metropolitan Museum in New York.

literature

  • The Notable Art Collection Belonging to the Estate of the Late Joseph Brummer . Part 1–3. Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York 1949.
  • Grunt . In: Colum Hourihane (Ed.): The Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture , Volume 1, Oxford University Press Oxford 2012, ISBN 978-0-19-539536-5 , pp. 445-446 ( Google Books ).

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