Siegfried Rosengart (1894 – 1985) was a German-Swiss art dealer.
9-636: Rosengart was born in 1894. His parents were Heinrich Rosengart (1850–1921), a bed feather maker, and Selma Thannhauser. His uncles, Joseph Rosengart and Heinrich Thannhauser , were both involved in art. In 1912 Rosengart was influenced by a visit to the Sonderbund exhibition in Cologne in 1912, which featured modern art. He met Picasso while studying French in Paris in 1913–14. In 1919, Rosengart joined his uncle Heinrich Thannhauser's gallery. Rosengart opened
18-782: A branch for Thannhauser in Lucerne in 1920, managing it until 1937. In 1933 he received Swiss citizenship. Rosengart's daughter, Angela, joined him in running the gallery in 1948, becoming a partner in 1957. Rosengart sold artworks to museums, like the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen (North Rhine-Westphalia Art Collection) in Düsseldorf, as well as to private collectors like Etta and Claribel Cone (Gauguin, "Woman with Mango," Matisse, "Odalisque," Picasso, "Mother and Child," now Baltimore Musée). Child," now Baltimore Mus.) and Samuel Courtauld (Manet, "A Bar in
27-545: A district of Krumbach (Swabia); died 1934 on the German-Swiss border) was a German gallery owner and art collector. As an art dealer, he was one of the most important promoters of early Expressionist art in Germany. The Jewish Thannhauser family came from Mönchsdeggingen . Heinrich Thannhauser first learned the profession of a tailor. He founded his Munich Modern Gallery (Moderne Galerie)in 1904. At first he exhibited
36-766: The Arco-Palais, Theatinerstraße 7 in Munich, was dissolved in 1928. In 1937, the National Socialists confiscated the holdings. Justin Thannhauser emigrated to Paris, where he ran a gallery until 1941. Its inventory of artworks was confiscated during the Nazi occupation of Paris. Justin Thannhauser managed to escape to New York, where he continued to deal in art. In 1963 Justin Thannhauser donated his private collection as well as that of his father, Heinrich, to
45-542: The Folies Bergère," London). He dealt frequently in works by Paul Klee . He acted as an advisor and intermediary for Bernhard Sprengel (1899–1985) and Peter Ludwig (1925-96). Rosengart also collected art for his own private collection. In 1971, he and his daughter Angela donated a Picasso painting to the Kunsthaus Zürich in 1971. In 1978, with eight artworks, they created a small Picasso museum for
54-696: The artworks of French Impressionists such as Édouard Manet, Edgar Degas and Paul Gauguin. Later works by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque were added. In 1909, Thannhauser separated from his partner Franz Josef Brakl and continued to run the gallery under the name Galerie Thannhauser. The first exhibition of the Neue Künstlervereinigung München took place in the Arco-Palais in the same year. In 1911 he began collaborating with Der Blaue Reiter . In 1918 he had himself painted in Berlin simultaneously by Lovis Corinth and by Max Liebermann ;
63-555: The city of Lucerne, adding about 200 photographs of Picasso by David Douglas Duncan in 1992.. Rosengart died in 1985. Since then, his daughter has continued to run the gallery. In 1992 she established a charitable foundation to preserve and exhibit the Rosengart collection . In March 2002 it opened in the former building of the Swiss. National Bank in Lucerne. The core of the collection consists of 47 paintings and drawings by Picasso from
72-460: The one he sat for a portrait in the morning, the other in the afternoon. In 1920 his nephew Siegfried Rosengart opened a branch of the gallery in Lucerne. In 1934 in attempting to flee from the Nazis to Switzerland, Thannhauser died of a stroke at the border. His son Justin Thannhauser , who was also an art dealer, established branches in Lucerne (1919) and Berlin (1927). The parent company in
81-604: The years between 1904 and 1972, as well as 125 selected Klee works from all creative periods, making it one of the most important private Klee collections internationally. It also includes three paintings by Cezanne as well as paintings by Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, Seurat, the Nabis artists Bonnard and Vuillard, and works by Modigliani, Soutine, Matisse, Braque, Léger, Kandinsky, Miró and Chagall. Heinrich Thannhauser Heinrich Thannhauser (born February 16, 1859, in Hürben, today
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