| Admin/Biog History | Alfred Flechtheim was a Jewish German art dealer, art collector, journalist and publisher. In 1912, he organised the Internationale Kunstausstellung des Sonderbunds Westdeutscher Kunstfreunde und Künstler' in Cologne, which brought together avant-garde groups of artists and art movements in Europe. He also founded the modernist art journal 'Der Querschnitt' (The Cross Section) which ran from 1921 until 1936, and owned a successful gallery in Dusseldorf.
Flechtheim fled to Paris in 1933, following the aryanization of his gallery by the Nazis. He then moved to London where he organised exhibitions of paintings by exiled German artists. Flechtheim died there in 1937. |
| Description | Includes:
-letter from Henri Vesne, the Louvre, to Max Silberberg, dated 19 February 1934, concerning a picture by Honore Daumier
-letter and typed transcript from Flechtheim, dated 28 May 1934, concerning Silberberg's Daumier, and pictures in the collection of Alfred Tietz
-letter from Wacker-Bondy to Flechtheim, dated 22 June 1934, listing pictures to be sent to London
-typed list of pictures consigned from France, dated 29 March 1938 (1p)
-three black and white photographs of works of art |