Gurlitt, Wolfgang

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Name
Gurlitt, Wolfgang Gender: M
Wolfgang Ludwig Heinrich Carl Gurlitt
born on 15 February 1888 at 23:45 (= 11:45 PM )
Place Berlin, Germany, 52n29, 13e21
Timezone LMT m13e21 (is local mean time)
Data source
BC/BR in hand
Rodden Rating AA
Collector: Scholfield
Astrology data s_su.18.gif s_aqucol.18.gif 26°45' s_mo.18.gif s_aricol.18.gif 11°43 Asc.s_scocol.18.gif 05°47'



Wolfgang Gurlitt (portrait by Lovis Corinth, 1917)

Biography

German art dealer and collector, publisher and gallery owner. He was the grandson of the painter Louis Gurlitt, and son of the art dealer Fritz Gurlitt, founder of the Fritz Gurlitt Gallery, which he had taken over in 1907 and reopened after the First World War. At the same time he worked as a publisher. A friend of Alfred Kubin and Oskar Kokoschka, he was one of the first gallery owners in Germany to exhibit the work of artists such as Lovis Corinth, Leon Dabo, Henri Matisse and Max Slevogt.

The composer Manfred Gurlitt was his stepbrother, and was a cousin of the musicologist Wilibald Gurlitt. Wolfgang Gurlitt died on 26 March 1965, aged 77.

Link to Wikipedia biography

Relationships

  • associate relationship with Slevogt, Max (born 8 October 1868)

Events

Source Notes

Sy Scholfield provided birth registry entry from Berlin City Archives.

Categories

  • Lifestyle : Financial : Invest/ Collectibles (Art)
  • Lifestyle : Financial : Loss - Bankruptcy
  • Vocation : Business : Business owner (Art gallery)
  • Vocation : Business/Marketing : Sales (Art dealer)
  • Vocation : Writers : Publisher/ Editor