1. Alfred Flechtheim was a German Jewish art dealer, art collector, journalist and publisher persecuted by the Nazis.
15 Facts About Alfred Flechtheim
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Alfred Flechtheim became a partner in his father's company after business internships in London and Paris.
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Alfred Flechtheim appeared in the art world shortly after 1900, with a collection of paintings by Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cezanne; French Avant garde early works of Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and Andre Derain; paintings of Wassily Kandinsky, Maurice de Vlaminck, Alexej von Jawlensky, Gabriele Munter, and the Rhein Expressionists Heinrich Campendonk, August Macke, Heinrich Nauen, and Paul Adolf Seehaus.
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Alfred Flechtheim organised The 'Internationale Kunstausstellung des Sonderbunds Westdeutscher Kunstfreunde und Kunstler' that opened in Cologne on 25 May 1912.
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Alfred Flechtheim was the chairman of the steering committee and the lender of many important artworks by Picasso and other artists.
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Alfred Flechtheim opened his first gallery in Dusseldorf in 1913, followed by galleries in Berlin, Frankfurt, Cologne, and Vienna.
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Alfred Flechtheim served in the German Army during World War I, but not at the front.
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Legendary, glamorous parties in Alfred Flechtheim's gallery overflowed with the glitterati of the new Berlin: movie stars, titans of finance, prizefighters and artists of every stripe.
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Alfred Flechtheim founded the important modernist art journal Der Querschnitt which ran from 1921 until 1936.
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Six months after the Nazis came to power in 1933, Alfred Flechtheim, penniless, fled to Paris, and tried to find work with his former business partner, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler and with the Mayor Gallery in London.
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Alfred Flechtheim subsequently organized exhibits in London of the paintings of exiled German artists.
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In March 1937 in London, Alfred Flechtheim slipped on a patch of ice, was taken to a hospital, punctured his leg on a rusty nail in his hospital bed, developed sepsis leading to amputation of his leg, and died.
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The Galerie Alfred Flechtheim GmbH disappeared in its entirety on 27 March 1937.
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Betty Alfred Flechtheim was with her husband in London during his final days.
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Alfred Flechtheim's heirs are attempting to recover artworks stolen from Alfred Flechtheim.