Frank Richard Perls
Frank Richard Perls (born October 23, 1910 in Berlin ; died February 9, 1975 in Beverly Hills ) was a German-American art dealer.
Life
Frank Richard Perls was a son of the diplomat and later art dealer Hugo Perls and Käthe Kolker. His brother Klaus Gunther Perls also became an art dealer, while his brother Thomas Alfred Perls (1923–1982) became an engineer at Lockheed .
Perls studied art history in Freiburg im Breisgau, Vienna, Munich and Berlin. One of his teachers in Freiburg was Hans Jantzen . When his mother opened the Käthe Perls gallery in Paris in 1932 , he went to see her. In 1937 he emigrated to the USA and founded the Perls Galleries in Manhattan with his brother Klaus Perls . In 1939 he went to Hollywood , where he opened his own gallery. Perls became a soldier in the US Army , was an infantryman in Normandy in 1944 and was used as a translator during the conquest of Germany. He and Martin Dannenberg found a typewritten copy of the Nuremberg Laws with Hitler's signature in a bank vault in Eichstätt . Back in the US, he moved the Frank Perls Gallery to Beverly Hills . Perl's specialties were the Cologne school of painting in the 15th century and contemporary art. He uncovered some art forgeries and, as early as 1967, illegal replicas of sculptures by Alberto Giacometti .
Perls was friends with Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse , which resulted in his own art collection, which also contained works by Georges Braque and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec .
Perls was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and a board member of the American Art Dealers Association.
literature
- Perls, Frank Richard , in: Ulrike Wendland: Biographical Handbook of German-Speaking Art Historians in Exile. Life and work of the scientists persecuted and expelled under National Socialism . Munich: Saur, 1999, ISBN 3-598-11339-0 , p. 504f.
- Perls, Frank Richard , in: Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Hrsg.): Biographical manual of German-speaking emigration after 1933. Vol. 1: Politics, economy, public life . Munich: Saur 1980, p. 553
- Important paintings and prints: property of various owners including the estate of Frank Perls and the UC San Diego Foundation . Los Angeles: Parke-Bernet Sotheby, 1976
Web links
- Literature by and about Perls, Frank in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Frank Perls died; coast art dealer , NYT, Feb. 10, 1975
Individual evidence
- ↑ Martin Dannenberg papers. Photographs, 1945 , at USHMM
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Perls, Frank Richard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Perls, Frank |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-American art dealer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 23, 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 9, 1975 |
| Place of death | Beverly Hills |