Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler
Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler , born the June 25th 1884 with Mannheim and deceased the January 11th 1979 with Paris, was a writer, collector and merchant of German art.
Wire of easy middle-class men, it grows with Stuttgart, where in contact with its great-uncle, Joseph Goldscheider, “the uncle amico”, it is initiated, at the time of long walks, with painting and the music. The great-uncle is an “eccentric” man, “impassioned freedom”, which opens the spirit to him and which makes, all in all, his visual education. Later, the teenager attends the European museums, it discovers there Boucher, Chardin, Rembrandt and especially Cranach. At 18 years it comes to live with Paris, without any conviction for its work: recluses ambulations with the Louvre (Paolo Uccello and Vermeer), with the Museum of Luxembourg (room Caillebotte)… Kahnweiler discovers the impressionist painting. But its eye stops on Cézanne, and reads there the first steps of a new painting. Very quickly it acquires the conviction that it wants to be Marchand of art, “not a creator, but rather, (…), an intermediary in a relatively noble direction”: Ambroise Vollard and Paul Durand-Ruel will be guides, “its Masters”.
He will become thus the merchant of art and the promoter of the four musketeers of the Cubisme: Picasso, Directs, Juan Gris and Derain. It was the first, with Wilhelm Uhde, to perceive the rupture and the force of the Demoiselles of Avignon , fabric founder of the cubism in 1907.
He appreciated also Eugene-Nestor de Kermadec, André Beaudin, Francisco Bores.
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