Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler

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Juan Gris: Portrait of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler , 1921, pencil on paper, Musée National d'Art Moderne , Paris

Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler (born June 25, 1884 in Mannheim ; † January 11, 1979 in Paris ) was a German-French gallery owner , art historian and academic author. Kahnweiler is particularly known for his longstanding collaboration with Pablo Picasso . His first art theory book from 1920, The Road to Cubism , influenced thinking about modern art.

Life

Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler spent his youth in Stuttgart between 1890 and 1902 . He attended Real-Gymnasium, today's Dillmanngymnasium, which he left in 1900 after graduating from secondary school. He then completed a banking apprenticeship in Frankfurt. Internships in Paris and London followed.

Galerie Kahnweiler, from 1920 Galerie Simon

Instead of a career in the banking sector, Kahnweiler chose art and opened a small gallery in Paris in 1907 at Rue Vignon 28. In that year, Kahnweiler already signed exclusive contracts with the artists André Derain , Georges Braque and Maurice de Vlaminck , in 1911 for the first time with Pablo Picasso . Other artists followed such as Fernand Léger , Juan Gris , Henri Laurens and Manolo Martínez Hugué . Picasso painted a Cubist portrait of the gallery owner in 1910.

When the First World War broke out , Kahnweiler was not in Paris, and his German citizenship precluded his return. His confiscated gallery was closed, and the paintings were auctioned for below their value after the war. He did not return to Paris until February 1920. In September 1920 he and André Simon opened the Simon Gallery in rue d'Astorg. He was able to sign a new group of artists: the surrealist painter André Masson and the artists Paul Klee and Arno Breker .

Galerie Louise Leiris from 1939

In 1937 he received French citizenship , but had to hide during the occupation of France because of his Jewish ancestry . In 1939 his wife's sister, Louise Leiris, wife of the writer Michel Leiris , took over the management of the gallery ; it was named: Galerie Louise Leiris . On May 14, 1945, a few days after the armistice, his wife Lucie died in Paris, where the couple had returned after years of living in the Limoges area. In 1957, with the exhibition “Pour saluer Picasso”, he opened the gallery jointly managed with Louise Leiris on Rue de Monceau, which still exists today. Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler died on January 12, 1979 at the age of 94 in Paris.

Publications

Kahnweiler began work on his legendary book The Way to Cubism in 1914 . According to the theoretical treatise Du cubisme by Albert Gleizes and Jean Metzinger , published in 1912 , it is one of the fundamental publications on Cubism. Due to the war, the book was not published until 1920 by Delphin Verlag in Munich. As early as 1916, a short version of the text with the title Cubism appeared in the magazine Die Weißen Blätter in Zurich. For his book edition in 1920, he used the author's name Daniel Henry to avoid an unobjective confrontation as a German in France.

Further publications followed. In 1920 a treatise on André Derain appeared under the name Daniel Henry in the Young Art series . The book was published by the Verlag von Klinckhardt & Biermann in Leipzig. Further editions followed, for example about Maurice de Vlaminck , Guillaume Apollinaire , Juan Gris , Fernand Léger , André Malraux and Antonin Artaud .

Publisher's signature Daniel-Henry Kahnweilers
Publications (selection)
  • The way to cubism. Delphin Verlag, Munich 1920 ( archive.org ).
  • Young art - André Derain , Verlag von Klinckhardt & Biermann, Leipzig 1920
  • My painters - my galleries , translated from the French by Susanne B. Milczewsky. (French: Mes galeries and mes peintres ). DuMont documents series, DuMont Schauberg publishing house, Cologne 1961, without ISBN
  • numerous monographs on artists

Exhibitions

The Kahnweiler house in Rockenhausen

A permanent (photo) exhibition about the life and work of Kahnweiler is shown in Belfort in the “Donation Maurice Jardot ” museum .

Kahnweiler's German-language library can be seen in his ancestors' house in Rockenhausen . In this "Kahnweiler House", which was set up in 1981, Kahnweiler lithographs by Picasso and a photo documentation of Kahnweiler's biography as well as temporary exhibitions by contemporary artists are shown.

Appreciations

Kahnweiler was made an honorary citizen of Rockenhausen on February 15, 1970. Since 1981 the "Kahnweiler Memorial Foundation" has been awarding the Daniel Henry Kahnweiler Prize for painting and sculpture at irregular intervals .

In 1974 the University of Kaiserslautern awarded him an honorary doctorate .

Secondary literature

  • Assouline, Pierre: The man who sold Picasso - Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler and his artists , Gustav Lübbe Verlag, Bergisch Gladbach 1990, ISBN 3-7857-0579-4
  • Jardot, Maurice et al. a .: Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler · art dealer · publisher · writer , catalog for the exhibition of the same name in the Center Georges Pompidou, Paris, November 22, 1984 to January 28, 1985, German edition Vlg. Hatje, Stuttgart 1986, ISBN 3-7757 -0223-7
  • The Kahnweiler Collection. From Gris, Braque, Léger and Klee to Picasso . Published by Hans Albert Peters. With contributions by François Chapon, Isabelle Monod-Fontaine, Hans Albert Peters, Werner Spies and Stephan von Wiese, Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf im Ehrenhof / Prestel Munich 1994, ISBN 3-7913-1433-5

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler - Apartment in Stuttgart 1890 and 1902
  2. ^ Walter Schitter: The Daniel Henry Kahnweiler Prize of the City of Rockenhausen , rockenhausen.de, accessed on January 20, 2011
  3. ↑ Kahnweiler Prize 2015. rockenhausen.de, accessed on 27 January 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Kahnweiler, Daniel-Henry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kahnweiler, Daniel Henry; Henry, Daniel (author name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-French gallery owner and art dealer
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH January 11, 1979
Place of death Paris