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historical notes
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Anthony Blumka is a fourth generation dealer in Medieval and Renaissance works of art and sculpture. His great-grandfather started the family business in Vienna in the nineteenth century and his father, Leopold, moved the gallery to New York in 1939, and was later succeeded by Tony’s mother, Ruth Blumka. In 1997 Tony opened Blumka Gallery at its current location in Manhattan. The diverse range of gallery inventory features Medieval and Renaissance ivories, enamels, bronzes and stone and wood sculpture.
Over the years the Blumkas have enhanced the collections of national and international museums through both sales and donations to such institutions as Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich; The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The Cleveland Museum of Art; The Detroit Institute of Arts; The Frick Collection; The J. Paul Getty Museum; Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna; The Louvre; and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, to name a few.
Tony Blumka is former President and member of the Art and Antique Dealers League of America, and is a member in good standing of the National Antique and Art Dealers Association of America. He participates in The European Fine Art Fair each spring in Maastricht, the Connoisseur’s Antiques Fair every autumn, as well as the annual Munich Highlights and the Biennale des Antiquaires, Paris. In addition, Blumka Gallery mounts a biennial exhibition in conjunction with Julius Böhler Kunsthandlung of Starnberg, Germany, “Collecting Treasures of the Past.”
Blumka Gallery, 209 East 72nd Street, New York, New York |
