Israel Ber Neumann

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Israel Ber Neumann also: Jsrael Ber Neumann, JB Neumann or IB Neumann (born 1887 in Skole , Galicia, Austria-Hungary ; died 1961 in New York City ) was a German-American art dealer and publisher who was concerned with the establishment of the 20th century art in Germany and the USA.

Act

In 1910 Neumann took over a bookstore on Kurfürstendamm in Berlin in the neighborhood of the Berlin Secession and began to organize graphic exhibitions and to publish literature on contemporary art. From 1912 there was a branch in Charlottenburg for paintings. On January 22, 1918, Richard Huelsenbeck converted a reading by expressionist poets into a Dada lecture. In March of the same year, Neumann's first Dada exhibition in Germany took place. During these years Neumann tried to make his artists known throughout Germany in a series of collaborations and branches. There was a cooperation with Zingler's cabinet in Frankfurt and with the graphic cabinet of Bergh & Co. in Düsseldorf. He founded Graphische Kabinette in Bremen (today: Kunsthandlung Wolfgang Werner) and 1922 in Munich (later: Kunsthandlung Günther Franke ).

emigration

In 1924 Karl Nierendorf took over the Berlin cabinet after IB Neumann, as his friends always called him, had moved to the USA in 1923 and had successfully opened a gallery in New York. There he exhibited his German artist friends Alexander Archipenko , Alexander Calder , Marc Chagall , Paul Klee , Ernst Ludwig Kirchner , Otto Mueller , Emil Nolde , Max Pechstein and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff . To promote modern art, he edited the magazine Artlover .

He supported artists like Max Beckmann , Conrad Felixmüller , George Grosz , Otto Dix and Rudolf Schlichter right from the very beginning of their careers and he was also instrumental in making their names known in the USA.

Part of his written estate, including an unpublished autobiography , and the estate of his gallery are in the archives of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

literature

  • Penny Bealle: JB Neumann and the Introduction of Modern German Art to New York, 1923-1933. In: Archives of American Art Journal. Vol. 29, No. 1/2, 1989, ISSN  0003-9853 , pp. 3-15.
  • Karl-Heinz Meißner: Israel Ber Neumann. Art dealer - publisher. In: Henrike Junge (Ed.): Avant-garde and audience. On the reception of avant-garde art in Germany 1905–1933. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 1992, ISBN 3-412-02792-8 , pp. 215-224.
  • Felix Billeter: The "Graphisches Kabinett JB Neumann" in Munich 1923–1933. In: Felix Billeter, Antje Günther, Steffen Krämer (eds.): Münchner Moderne. Art and architecture of the twenties. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich et al. 2002, ISBN 3-422-06340-4 , pp. 256-267.
  • Gregor Langfeld: German Art in New York. Mediator - art collector - exhibition organizer 1904–1957. Dietrich Reimer, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-496-01446-1 .
  • Ursula Harter, Stephan von Wiese (eds.): Max Beckmann and JB Neumann. The artist and his dealer in letters and documents 1917–1950. W. König, Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-86560-795-9 .

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personal data
SURNAME Neumann, Israel Ber
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Neumann, Israel Ber; Neumann, JB; Neumann, IB
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American art dealer and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Skole, Galicia
DATE OF DEATH 1961
Place of death New York City