Jewish dealers and the European art market, c. 1860-1940: negotiating cultural modernity

Abstract

"Adopting a far wider geography than any previous study, this is the first book to consider Jewish dealers as a coherent cohort, tied together by common contexts and strategies, but also a common vulnerability. The essays in this volume presents case studies from the mid-19th to mid-20th century across six thematic subsections: the historic art trade in Paris and London; the role of Jewish dealers as mediators between East and West; cosmopolitan dealers and modernist identities; Jewish art promoters and exhibition makers; the antisemitism faced by Jewish dealers; and the migration, circulation and reinvention of Jewish dealers in the 20th century"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents

Introduction -- Negotiating cultural modernity: Jewish art and antique dealers in Europe, c. 1860-1940 / Tom Stammers with Silvia Davoli -- Art dealing in the 'hands of Abraham's posterity': Jewish art dealers in Victorian London / Krystyna Matyjaszkiewicz -- Moisè Michelangelo Guggenheim (1837-1914) in Venice: dealer, manufacturer, decorator, collector, and philanthropist / Nicholas Penny -- Mannheim, father and son, in Paris (1817-1910): from German-Jewish immigrants to leaders of the art market / Camille Mestdagh and Léa Saint-Raymond -- 'The only man in Europe': Charles Davis (1849-1914), an Anglo-Jewish dealer, and the commercial cousinhood / Diana Davis -- The Samuel family as dealers in East Asian art and curios, 1878-1926 / William G. Clarence-Smith -- Florine Ebstein Langweil: Jewish networks in the East Asian art trade / Elizabeth Emery -- Antisemitism and the Jewish art dealer: the case of Siegfried Bing and Julius Meier-Graefe / Gabriel P. Weisberg -- Exterminating Cubism: Bochisme, L'art Juif and the vilification of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler / Fae Brauer -- Léonce Rosenberg's Cubism: Jewish Mediterraneanism and the question of assimilation / Giovanni Casini -- Alfred Flechtheim and the Flechtheim Galleries, 1913-33 / Malcolm Gee -- A Parisian in London, and New York: genesis of a modern art dynasty -- Gimpel Fils / Diana J. Kostyrko -- Conflicted Modernisms: Martin Birnbaum's transnational exhibitions / Julie Codell -- Rags to riches: becoming Leo Nardus / Esmée Quodbach -- The mysterious Birtchansky brothers: Moscow-Paris-The French Riviera / Shlomit Steinberg -- Afterword: Why the Jews? / Charles Dellheim.