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Kahnweiler, Daniel Henry, 1884-1979 print view role Dealer/Gallery Scholar/Critic/Expert dates 1884-1979 city Paris other cities Mannheim, Germany; London, United Kingdom; Bern, Switzerland; country France sex M historical notes Daniel Henry Kahnweiler was a German art dealer, publisher, writer, who established a gallery in Paris in 1907 and became one of the most influential dealers of the Paris School, particularly Picasso and Braque. Exiled in Switzerland during World War I, his collections were sequestered and sold by the French government at the end of the war. Returning to Paris in 1920, Kahnweiler reopened his gallery, known as galerie Simon after his partner André Simon. In 1940 Simon, a Jew, turned his gallery over to his daughter-in-law Louise Leiris, who ran the gallery as galerie Louise Leiris. decades of activity 1900-1910 1910-1920 1920-1930 1930-1940 1940-1950 1950-1960 1960-1970 1970-1980 updated 10/31/2024 13:33:16 bibliographic search Search Frick Art Reference Library Catalog Search Photoarchive Search Worldcat Search Library of Congress Name Authority File (LCNAF) Search Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) Search Wikidata Entry Archives/Repository Collection Title Collection Details Galerie Louise Leiris Galerie Louise Leiris Records see details... The Getty Research Institute Research Libraries, Archives and Special Collections Letter to Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler from Antonin Artaud, 1923. see details... Yale University Library Manuscripts and Archives Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas papers, 1837-1961 see details... The Museum of Modern Art Library and Archives Curt Valentin papers, 1937-1955. see details... The Getty Research Institute Research Libraries, Archives and Special Collections Papers relating to "entartete Kunst," 1939-1948. see details... The Getty Research Institute Research Libraries, Archives and Special Collections Eduardo Westerdahl correspondence and papers relating to Gaceta de Arte, ca. 1932-1936. see details... The Getty Research Institute Research Libraries, Archives and Special Collections Records of the Svensk-Franska Konstgalleriet (Stockholm, Sweden) and the Galerie Bonnier, 1918-1997. see details... Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200 Jane Wade papers regarding Curt Valentin, 1903-1971 see details... Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200 Michael Brenner papers, 1888-1976. see details... University of Texas, Austin Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Françoise Gilot Collection, 1944-1965 see details... The Getty Research Institute Research Libraries, Archives and Special Collections André Masson letter : to Pierre Descargues, 1954. see details... University of Pennsylvania Rare Book & Manuscript Library Collections Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1960. see details... University of Pennsylvania Rare Book & Manuscript Library Collections Correspondence to Edward F. Fry, 1966-1967. see details... University of Pennsylvania Rare Book & Manuscript Library Collections Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1958. see details... see also: Galerie Louise Leiris Saidenberg Gallery «  back