Lot Essay
The present collage is a design for the vignette for the advertisement of the Galerie Heinrich Thannhauser, Munich which was published on one of the last pages of the Blaue Reiter Almanach in 1912.
Heinrich Thannhauser first opened a gallery with the art dealer Brakl in Munich in 1904. However, both dealers decided in 1909 to work independently and that year Thannhauser opened his "Moderne Galerie". He began his exhibition with paintings by Gauguin, Pissarro, Sisley and Manet. The gallery soon became regarded as the most avant-garde in Munich at the time and it was here that the first Blaue Reiter exhibition took place in December 1911. It also included works by Delaunay, Burljuk, Schönberg, Kandinsky, Campendonk and Marc.
Heinrich's son, Justin, joined the gallery in 1912 and during the First World War opened a further gallery in Lucerne. However, when Heinrich Thannhauser became seriously ill, Justin returned to Munich and handed over the Lucerne business to his cousin Siegried Rosengart who was later to become an important dealer himself, and a friend of Picasso.
In 1927 the Thannhausers decided to open yet another gallery in Berlin, where they showed important works by Cézanne and Monet.
The Munich gallery existed until 1934, the Berlin branch until 1936.
Heinrich Thannhauser died in 1934 and his son Justin emigrated with his family to the United States in 1940. He and his wife Hilde left a large part of their private collection to the Solomon Guggenheim Museum in New York and the remaining works were later given to the Kunstmuseum in Bern where both had moved to in 1970.
Heinrich Thannhauser first opened a gallery with the art dealer Brakl in Munich in 1904. However, both dealers decided in 1909 to work independently and that year Thannhauser opened his "Moderne Galerie". He began his exhibition with paintings by Gauguin, Pissarro, Sisley and Manet. The gallery soon became regarded as the most avant-garde in Munich at the time and it was here that the first Blaue Reiter exhibition took place in December 1911. It also included works by Delaunay, Burljuk, Schönberg, Kandinsky, Campendonk and Marc.
Heinrich's son, Justin, joined the gallery in 1912 and during the First World War opened a further gallery in Lucerne. However, when Heinrich Thannhauser became seriously ill, Justin returned to Munich and handed over the Lucerne business to his cousin Siegried Rosengart who was later to become an important dealer himself, and a friend of Picasso.
In 1927 the Thannhausers decided to open yet another gallery in Berlin, where they showed important works by Cézanne and Monet.
The Munich gallery existed until 1934, the Berlin branch until 1936.
Heinrich Thannhauser died in 1934 and his son Justin emigrated with his family to the United States in 1940. He and his wife Hilde left a large part of their private collection to the Solomon Guggenheim Museum in New York and the remaining works were later given to the Kunstmuseum in Bern where both had moved to in 1970.