Ernest Brummer

Ernest Brummer (* 1891 in Sombor , Austria-Hungary ; † February 21, 1964 in New York ) was an art dealer from Hungary who was active in Paris and New York.

After attending grammar school, Ernest Brummer first studied flute in Budapest. He went to Paris with his brothers Joseph and Imre, where Ernest worked at the Sorbonne and the École du Louvre a . a. studied with Salomon Reinach . He took part in research in Egypt and the Middle East. In 1906 the three brothers opened an art dealership, the Brummer Gallery . During the First World War , Ernest served in the French army as an officer and translator. His brothers had meanwhile opened a branch of the gallery in New York (Brummer Gallery). Ernest continued to run the gallery in Paris after the war. In 1940 he closed this when the Germans invaded and went to his brother Joseph in New York. The gallery in New York closed in 1949. Ernest Brummer lived on in New York and worked as an art collector.

In 1966, Duke University acquired over 250 items from its medieval art collection. In 1979 the rest of his art collection from the possession of his widow Ella Baché Brummer († 1999) was auctioned in Zurich.

Publications

• with Adolphe Basler : L'art précolombien . Librairie de France, Paris 1928.

literature

• The Ernest Brummer Collection. Auction Sale from the 16th to 19th October 1979 at the Grand Hotel Dolder . 2 volumes, Galerie Koller and Spink & Son, Zurich 1979 (with portrait and curriculum vitae).
• Caroline Bruzelius, Jill Meredith, The Brummer Collection of Medieval Art . Duke University Press, Durham NC 1991.
• 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 ).

Web links

• Ernest Brummer for Dumbarton Oaks
• Ernest Brummer at the British Museum
• Ernest Brummer in the Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America