Curt Valentin
Curt Valentin (5 October 1902, Hamburg, Germany – 19 August 1954, Forte dei Marmi, Italy) was a German-Jewish art dealer known for handling modern art, particularly sculpture, and works classified as "degenerate" by the Nazi regime in pre-war Germany.
After 1927 Curt Valentin worked for Alfred Flechtheim in Berlin.[1] In 1934, he worked at Karl Buchholz Gallery, Hamburg. In 1937, he emigrated to America, and opened a modern art gallery, Bucholz gallery, in New York City.[2] He had permission to sell German art in America, from the Nazi authorities.[3][4] In 1951 the gallery was renamed the Curt Valentin Gallery. His gallery operated from 1951, until a year after his death in 1954, and handled works by many notable artists including Alexander Calder, Henry Moore, Marino Marini, and Jacques Lipchitz.[5]
References
- ↑ Galerie Flechtheim The Frick Collection. Retrieved 12 October 2017.
- ↑ Curt Valentin Gallery (New York, N.Y.) The Frick Collection. Retrieved 12 October 2017.
- ↑ "Nazi Looted Art, Fernand Leger and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts". Blogger. 2 November 2008. Retrieved 12 October 2017.
- ↑ Fred Abrams (9 November 2008). "Mr. Curt Valentin's Nazi-Looted Art". Retrieved 12 October 2017.
- ↑ "Curt Valentin Papers in The Museum of Modern Art Archives". MOMA Publishing. 2006. Retrieved 12 October 2017.
External links
- "Curt Valentin in his gallery, ca. 1952", Photography by Adolph Studly, at Archives of American Art
- Ludwig Meidner: "Curt Valentin", MOMA
- Marino Marini and Curt Valentin: The Rise of the Italian Sculptor in America.
- "Artnews : MOMA's problematic provenances"
- "Bridges from the Reich: The Importance of Émigré Art Dealers as Reflected in the Case Studies of Curt Valentin and Otto Kallir– Nirenstein"
