On Wednesday , October 9 , earned a portal
www.alfredflechtheim.com, dedicated to Jewish art collector Alfred Flehthayma , who fled from Nazi Germany , and the works that formed part of his collection . We have published the biography of the art dealer , the artists with whom he worked, as well as information about the provenance of some 300 works from galleries Alfred Flehthayma .
Flehthayma Alfred , son of a Jewish grain merchant from Munster , made one of the most spectacular career in the art business of his time. He was one of the first to buy, and then partially and sell the work of Pablo Picasso , Georges Braque, Oskar Kokoschka (Oskar Kokoschka), Max Beckmann (Max Beckmann) , and other artists of the "new wave" in his gallery in Dusseldorf and branch offices in Berlin, Frankfurt and Cologne.
Through the hands of the gallery owner , who never ceased to be a collector and kept the best pictures , it took a lot of the most important works of art of his time.
In 1933, after coming to power in Germany, came to the National Socialists , Alfred Flehthayma was forced to emigrate. His business took over the former manager Alex femeli gallery (Alex Vömel), a member of the SA - NSDAP storm troopers . " Arizatsiya " gallery Flehthayma was mainly in the sale of paintings. Many of them were in private collections and museums .
Gallery owner himself died in 1937 in London in deep poverty .