Wilhelm Uhde (art dealer)

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Helmut Kolle : Portrait of Wilhelm Uhde , around 1930

Wilhelm Uhde (born October 28, 1874 in Friedeberg , Neumark , † August 17, 1947 in Paris ) was a German art dealer, art expert, author and gallery owner.

Life

Uhde studied in Dresden law and then art history in Munich and Florence . In 1904 he settled in Paris , where he began buying works by the then unknown artists Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque . He opened a gallery on Montparnasse . Picasso, whose "Banquet for Rousseau" in the Bateau-Lavoir , the artist's studio, Uhde had visited in November 1908, made a portrait of the gallery owner in 1910.

Robert Delaunay: Portrait Wilhelm Uhde , 1907

From 1908 Uhde organized exhibitions of the impressionists and cubists . When his collection was confiscated by the French state at the outbreak of World War I in 1914 , Uhde left the country and only returned ten years later, only to stay in southern France during the period of National Socialism and the Second World War . The German state had expatriated him , he was stateless.

In 1908 he married Sonia Terk . The marriage was short-lived. After the divorce, Sonia Terk married Robert Delaunay . In 1917 Uhde met the painter Helmut Kolle , who was 25 years his junior and who became his life partner. Around 1930 Kolle created a portrait of Uhde.

Uhde wrote several books on the art movements he was interested in. He is also considered to be the discoverer of André Lanskoy , Henri Rousseau and Séraphine Louis, as well as other representatives of naive painting (for example, Louis Vivin ).

Wilhelm Uhde died in Paris in 1947 at the age of 72. The tomb is on the Cimetière Montparnasse in Paris, where his sister Anne-Marie Uhde and Helen Hessel are buried in the same grave.

reception

Director Martin Provost processed the life story of the painter Séraphine and her discovery by Uhde in the 2008 film biography Séraphine . The Belgian actress Yolande Moreau plays the painter and Ulrich Tukur plays the art collector Uhde. The feature film won seven Césars in 2009 .

Fonts

  • Manfred Flügge : Paris is difficult. German CVs in France. Das Arsenal, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-921810-20-5 , therein:
    • M. Flügge: The German art dealer Wilhelm Uhde. P. 41 ff.,
    • W. Uhde: Records from the war years. P. 59 ff. (1939–1944, about his aimless flight from the Germans through the country, as an old man),
    • Anne-Marie Uhde: Epilogue to the records. P. 105 ff.
  • Wilhelm Uhde: The painter Helmut Kolle. The portrait of an early completion . Atlantis, Berlin / Zurich 1935.
  • Wilhelm Uhde: From Bismarck to Picasso: Memories and Confessions. Römerhof Verlag, Zurich 2010, ISBN 978-3-905894-06-6 (autobiography with a commentary essay by Bernd Rock).

Web links

Commons : Wilhelm Uhde (art dealer)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pierre Lubinsky: Review of Helmut Kolle , webcritics.de, accessed on May 24, 2011
  2. ↑ Area 1, Section 2
personal data
SURNAME Uhde, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art expert, author and gallery owner
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Friedeberg
DATE OF DEATH 17th August 1947
Place of death Paris