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Perls, Hugo print view role Collector Dealer/Gallery dates 1886-1977 city New York City state NY other cities Berlin, Germany; Paris, France; Rybnik, Poland; sex M historical notes Lawyer by trade, Hugo Perls was an art dealer, collector, historian and philosopher who operated galleries in Berlin, Paris and New York. Perls commissioned Mies van der Rohe to build a house in 1910 (Zehlendorf, Berlin), and owned African sculptures and work by, among others, Max Pechtein and Edvard Munch. Hugo was married three times; first to Kathe Kolker (d. 1945), then Eugenia Soderberg (d. 1973), and finally to Monica Schall. decades of activity 1910-1920 1920-1930 1930-1940 1940-1950 1950-1960 1960-1970 1970-1980 updated 02/14/2025 10:12:29 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 Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200 Frank Perls Papers and Frank Perls Gallery Records, circa 1920-1983, bulk 1949-1975 see details... Stony Brook University Special Collections & University Archives Eugénie Soderberg Papers, [ca.1930]-1973. see details... Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200 Perls Galleries records, 1935-1997. see details... Whitney Museum of American Art The Frances Mulhall Achilles Library, Archives Perls, Hugo: Art World Personality Files. see details... see also: Perls, Klaus Perls, Frank Richard «  back