Siegfried Rosengart (1894 – 1985) was a German-Swiss art dealer.

Early life

Rosengart was born in 1894. His parents were Heinrich Rosengart (1850–1921), a bed feather maker, and Selma Thannhauser. His uncles, Joseph Rosengart and Heinrich Thannhauser, were both involved in art.[1]

In 1912 Rosengart was influenced by a visit to the Sonderbund exhibition in Cologne in 1912, which featured modern art. He met Picasso while studying French in Paris in 1913–14. In 1919, Rosengart joined his uncle Heinrich Thannhauser's gallery. Rosengart opened a branch for Thannhauser in Lucerne in 1920, managing it until 1937. In 1933 he received Swiss citizenship.[1]

Art dealing and collecting

Rosengart's daughter, Angela,[2] joined him in running the gallery in 1948, becoming a partner in 1957.[1]

Rosengart sold artworks to museums, like the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen (North Rhine-Westphalia Art Collection) in Düsseldorf, as well as to private collectors like Etta and Claribel Cone (Gauguin, "Woman with Mango," Matisse, "Odalisque," Picasso, "Mother and Child," now Baltimore Musée). Child," now Baltimore Mus.) and Samuel Courtauld (Manet, "A Bar in the Folies Bergère," London).[1] He dealt frequently in works by Paul Klee.[3][4]

He acted as an advisor and intermediary for Bernhard Sprengel (1899–1985) and Peter Ludwig (1925-96).[1]

Rosengart also collected art for his own private collection.[1]

In 1971, he and his daughter Angela donated a Picasso painting to the Kunsthaus Zürich in 1971. In 1978, with eight artworks, they created a small Picasso museum for the city of Lucerne, adding about 200 photographs of Picasso by David Douglas Duncan in 1992..[1]

Legacy

Rosengart died in 1985. Since then, his daughter has continued to run the gallery. In 1992 she established a charitable foundation to preserve and exhibit the Rosengart collection. In March 2002 it opened in the former building of the Swiss. National Bank in Lucerne. The core of the collection consists of 47 paintings and drawings by Picasso from the years between 1904 and 1972, as well as 125 selected Klee works from all creative periods, making it one of the most important private Klee collections internationally. It also includes three paintings by Cezanne as well as paintings by Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, Seurat, the Nabis artists Bonnard and Vuillard, and works by Modigliani, Soutine, Matisse, Braque, Léger, Kandinsky, Miró and Chagall.[1][5][6][7][8]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Biographie, Deutsche. "Rosengart, Siegfried - Deutsche Biographie". www.deutsche-biographie.de (in German). Retrieved 2022-02-14.
  2. ↑ "Museum Sammlung Rosengart has 35 Picassos, 175 works by Paul Klee". culturelocker.com. Retrieved 2022-02-14. IN 1949, WHEN Angela Rosengart was just 17, her art-dealer father took her to meet Picasso.
  3. ↑ "Paul Klee Geschöpf aus der Moor Gegend D (Creature of the Moorland D)". Archived from the original on 2022-02-14.
  4. ↑ "Paul Klee CHINESISCHE NOVELLE (CHINESE NOVELLA) signed Klee (upper left); titled, dated and numbered 1922/80 on the artist's original mount". sothebys. Archived from the original on 2022-02-14. Provenance Bernhard Mayer, Zurich (until 1941), Galerie Rosengart, Lucerne (acquired in 1941),Lily Klee, Bern (1941–46),Klee-Gesellschaft, Bern (acquired in 1946),Buchholz Gallery (Curt Valentin), New York (acquired in 1949),G. David Thompson, Pittsburgh (until 1960),James W. Alsdorf, Chicago (acquired in 1967),Thomas Ammann Fine Art, Zurich,Robert Nowinski, Seattle,Ronnie Meyerson, Inc., New York,Sale: Sotheby's, New York, 13th November 1997, lot 150,Purchased at the above sale by the present owner
  5. ↑ "The Rosengart Collection Lucerne – the artists". Sammlung Rosengart Luzern. Retrieved 2022-02-14.
  6. ↑ "Rosengart Collection Lucerne". sothebys. This collection, comprising more than 300 works by 23 different beloved Modern artists, was lovingly assembled by Swiss art dealer Siegfried Rosengart and his daughter, Angela, who followed in his business and was a close friend of Pablo Picasso.
  7. ↑ Tourismus, Schweiz. "Museum Rosengart Collection - Klee, Picasso, Cézanne". Switzerland Tourism. Retrieved 2022-02-14.
  8. ↑ "Musée Розенгарт, Luzern: museum's collection". Arthive. Retrieved 2022-02-14.
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