Henri Rousseau was the first naive artist in the history of Western art to be recognized for his true worth. His paintings have now entered popular consciousness to such an extent that it is difficult to imagine how strongly they were resisted at the time. Much of the credit for his transformation is due to the author of these Recollections, dealer and art historian Wilhelm Uhde. It was Uhde who mounted the first exhibition of Rousseau's work, and the catalog he wrote for the occasion is the basis of the Recollections. In it, he painted a picture of a man of naivete, humor, and total commitment to an art of whose importance he was utterly convinced.

The career of Vincent Van Gogh (1853-90) as a painter was short, but his paintings revolutionized artistic practice and styles. The intensity of his vision, his wonderful sense of colour and the extraordinary boldness of his technique created masterpieces that exercised a profound influence on the art of the twentieth century. There are also enormously popular, and paintings such as The Yellow Chair, The Drawbridge and The Sower are among the most the best-loved images of our time. Wilhelm Uhde was an outstanding art critic and dealer who was born during Van Gogh's lifetime and witnessed at first hand his rise to fame at the beginning of the twentieth century. His masterly essay was first published in 1937 and remains one of the best introductions to Van Gogh's work. For this revised and expanded edition, the notes to the plates were added by Griselda Pollock, Professor of Social and Critical Histories of Art at the University of Leeds.

Wilhelm Uhde (1874-1947) war zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts eine der schillerndsten Figuren des Kunsthandels. Der Wahlfranzose entdeckte in Paris damals noch unbekannte Kunstler wie Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque und Henri Rousseau und wurde so zum Geburtshelfer der Avantgarde. Er setzte sich mit Leidenschaft fur die "naive Malerei" ein, besonders fur die "Maler des Heiligen Herzens" Bauchant, Bombois, Rousseau, Vivin und Seraphine Louis. Der Spielfilm "Seraphine" (2008) machte den deutschen Kunsthandler auch einer breiteren Offentlichkeit bekannt. In seiner Autobiographie beleuchtet Uhde die verschiedenen Lebensphasen, von seiner preussischen Kindheit und Jugend in grossburgerlichen Lebensverhaltnissen uber seinen Weg zum bedeutenden Kunstforderer, seine politisch aktiven Zeiten, in denen er sich fur die Entstehung eines foderalistisch organisierten, vereinten Europa einsetzt, bis zur Flucht vor den Nazis nach Sudfrankreich. Erstmals ist die Autobiographie "Von Bismarck bis Picasso," die die Jahre 1847 bis 1935 beschreibt, zusammen mit seinen Aufzeichnungen aus den Kriegsjahren in einem Buch erhaltlich. In einem begleitenden Essay setzt der renommierte Historiker Bernd Roeck das Leben Wilhelm Uhdes in den kunsthistorischen Kontext des fruhen 20. Jahrhunderts und veranschaulicht so dessen damals so moderne wie gewagte Betrachtungsweise der Kunst.

This is a new release of the original 1949 edition.

This is a new release of the original 1949 edition.

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