1947 Exhibition Catalog for Nierendorf Gallery

1947 Exhibition Catalog for Nierendorf Gallery, 53 East 57 Street, N.Y.C. 22. Drawings & Graphics, February 1947. Cover Drawing by Paul Klee. Opens like a greeting card: feaures 4 sides. See photos to see interior & verso. Measures 5 x 6.75 inches. Some signs of aging, cracked corners and overall fragine, but looks killer once framed (use black backing to hide missing edges). Front & back pages have seperated, hence why it should be framed.

Asking $35. Suitable for framing. 

 

Galerie Nierendorf

The Galerie Nierendorf is a commercial art gallery based in Berlin founded by Karl and Josef Nierendorf in 1920, and reopened in 1955 as the Galerie Meta Nierendorf by Florian and Inga Karsch.

The brothers Karl (1889–1947) and Josef (1898–1949) Nierendorf founded Nierendorf Köln Neue Kunst in Cologne in 1920. In 1925 Josef Nierendorf moved the gallery to Düsseldorf for a year. Karl Nierendorf had already taken over the graphic cabinet from I. B. Neumann in Berlin in 1923 and transformed it into the Neumann-Nierendorf Gallery in 1925, which he and his brother Josef ran under this name from 1926, from 1933 as the Nierendorf Gallery. As in the Rhineland, the Nierendorf brothers also exhibited expressionist art in Berlin, by artists such as Otto Dix and the Brücke artists Erich Heckel, Emil Nolde and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. Even unknown up-and-coming artists such as the student and later painter and art teacher Lorenz Humburg, Karl Blossfeldt or the neo-objective painter Ernst Thoms got a chance at Nierendorf. The gallery owners saw themselves as patrons, sponsors and publicists of the artists they represented.

Karl Nierendorf suffered serious heart attack in 1934.

 

Berlin to New York:

In 1936 Karl Nierendorf went to the US and opened the Nierendorf Gallery in New York in January 1937, on 53rd Street; his brother continued to run the Berlin gallery alone until 1939. When Josef was drafted into the Wehrmacht, he had to give up the business. Karl Nierendorf became an American citizen and the gallery grew, especially with emigre artists such as Lyonel Feininger, Kandinsky, and Klee. He also helped emerging American artists such as Perle Fine, Adolph Gottlieb, and Louise Nevelson. He died of a heart attack in 1947. His estate was sold by the state of New York to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Josef Nierendorf died in 1949.

 

 

Nierendorf Gallery

 
role Dealer/Gallery
dates 1889-1947
city New York City
state NY
other cities Berlin, Germany; Cologne, Germany;
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historical notes

Karl Nierendorf (1889-1947), an art dealer and collector in Cologne and New York, established Kairos Verlag, which published the magazine Der Strom and represented the work of Hans Hansen and the drawings of Max Ernst and others. In 1919 Nierendorf founded the Gesellschaft der Künstler, and the following year the Galerie Nierendorf in Cologne, representing the works of the Blaue Reiter, Otto Dix and Hans Cürlis.

In 1923 Nierendorf took over J.B. Neumann’s gallery in Berlin after the owner’s departure for New York. In 1936 Nierendorf himself immigrated to New York, where he established the Galerie Nierendorf. Following his sudden death, the Solomon R, Guggenheim Museum purchased his collection of works by Oskar Kokoschka, Paul Klee, Marc Chagall, Lyonel Feininger and Ernst Kirchner.

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