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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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