Erhard Weyhe

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Erhard Weyhe (born September 28, 1882 in Salzwedel , † July 11, 1972 in Digby (Nova Scotia) , Canada) was a German-American art bookseller and publisher .

Life

After training as a bookseller, he emigrated to the United States in 1914 . In the early 1920s he opened his bookstore on Lexington Avenue in New York, and from the early 1930s onwards he developed into one of the most important art booksellers and publishers in New York. In 1919 he founded the Weyhe Gallery , whose first manager was Carl Zigrosser , and published the art magazine The Checkerboard .

He was a founding member of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA) .

The bookseller Jacob Zeitlin (1902–1987) described Weyhe's bookstore as the largest art bookstore of its time.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Donald C. Dickinson: Dictionary of American Antiquarian Bookdealers, Westport 1998, p. 232.