Ambroise Vollard

Ambroise Vollard ( born July 3, 1865 in Saint- Denis on Reunion Island, † July 22, 1939 in Versailles) was a French art dealer, gallery owner and publisher. He is one of the most important figures of twentieth- century art.

Life

1901, the first exhibition of works by Pablo Picasso took place with him, in 1904 the first Matisse exhibition.

Among the artists whose works he represented, were among the at that time still very controversial artist Vincent van Gogh and Paul Cézanne, and Maurice de Vlaminck. His exhibition spaces were starting points for numerous artists. With him wrong, for example, Pierre- Auguste Renoir and Émile Zola. Paula Modersohn -Becker saw together with Clara Westhoff in his art action for the first time the works of Cézanne and Paul Gauguin, who influenced her art development considerably.

Ambroise Vollard was also active as an author and publisher. Due to its manifold relations with the avant-garde French art, he managed to attract the best painter of his time as a book illustrator. The laid at his works are among the most important achievements in the field of bibliophile book design.

Ambroise Vollard died in 1939 at the age of 74 years at the Clinique des Franciscains in Versailles at the consequences of a car accident that had occurred the previous day. The funeral ceremony was held in the Paris church of Sainte Clothilde on July 28. The art dealer rests in the cemetery at Bagneux near Paris.

In 2010, an auction of that part of his collection was held in London and Paris, which had been kept in a vault of a Parisian bank since 1939. This part of the legacy was secured as their inheritance by the heirs of Vollard's only through years of litigation against the young friend Vollard, Erich Slomovic, and his heirs.

Presentations ( selection)

Noteworthy is the large number of the art dealer representing portraits whose comparison allows conclusions to be drawn, in what proportion of the respective artists stood to the dealer and in what light he saw it or wanted to appear. Among the works of Cézanne from 1899 is demonstrably a commissioned work. Under what circumstances caused the other portraits, has not been clarified so far.

Awards

Works

  • Paul Cézanne. Galerie Vollard, 6, Rue Laffitte, Paris 1914
  • Tableaux, Pastels et Dessins de Pierre- Auguste Renoir. Chez Ambroise Vollard, 28, Rue de Gramont, Paris 1918
  • La Vie et l' oeuvre de Pierre- Auguste Renoir. Chez Ambroise Vollard, 28, Rue de Gramont, Paris 1919
  • Le Pere Ubu à la Guerre. Ambroise Vollard, Éditeur, 28, Rue de Martignac, Paris 1923
  • Degas / Ambroise Vollard. B. Cassirer, Berlin 1925
  • La Vie de Sainte Monique. Ambroise Vollard, Éditeur, 28, Rue de Martignac, Paris 1930
  • Le Pere Ubu de Reincarnation. Ambroise Vollard, Éditeur, 28, Rue de Martignac, Paris 1932
  • Souvenirs d' un marchand de tableaux. Albin Michel, Paris 1937; German: Memories of an art dealer, Ullsteinhaus, Frankfurt am Main in 1957 and Diogenes Verlag, Zurich 1957; ext. Re: Diogenes Verlag, Zurich (5th edition ), 1989, ISBN 978-3-257-21749-0
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